Lisa Bruce

Lisa Bruce
Born	Monterey, California, United States
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1982) New York University (M.F.A. 1991)
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	1992–present
Home town	Coronado, California, United States

Lisa Bruce is an American film producer best known for the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.

Lisa Bruce was born in Monterey, California to Mary Ann and George W. Bruce. She was one of five children. When she was in middle school, her family moved from Monterey to Coronado, California, because of her father's job with the United States Navy as a commanding officer of the USS Ticonderoga and USS St. Louis. As a teenager, Bruce worked at a local movie theater where her brother paid her a dollar per hour to mop the floor; she jokes that it was her "first job in the movie business".

Bruce attended Coronado High School, where she began creating short films and was elected senior class president. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1983 with an undergraduate degree in film, sociology and politics. She later attended New York University's graduate film school where she received a Master's degree.

Bruce began working as a film producer in 1992, when she and Robert Nickson—Bruce's NYU professor and mentor—founded the production company Orenda Films and produced Pen Pals. Orenda Films later produced The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994), Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994), and No Way Home (1996). In 1999, Bruce co-produced the independent film Tumbleweeds, which won numerous awards and accolades. She went on to executive-produce The Emperor's Club (2002), A Lot like Love (2005), Fighting (2009), Case 39 (2009), and Arthur Newman (2012). Working with HBO, she also produced the telefilms Walkout (2006), about the East L.A. walkouts in 1968, and Mary and Martha (2013), about two female malaria activists.

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