Paula Wagner
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| Born |
Paula Sue Kauffman December 12, 1946 Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Spouse(s) | Rick Nicita |
| Children | 2 |
Paula Wagner (born December 12, 1946) is an American film producer and film executive. She currently sits on the National Board of Directors for the Producers Guild of America.
Wagner was born Paula Sue Kauffman in Youngstown, Ohio. Her mother, Sue Anna (née Shofstall), was a newsmagazine editor from Oklahoma, and her father, Edmund Jamison "Ned" Kauffman, Jr., was a business owner.
She attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In her early career in New York, Wagner "played several ensemble parts in the 1971 production of Lenny [the play], and her first marriage, to the set designer Robin Wagner, brought her into the industry’s A-list circles; she was at Robin’s side when the director Michael Bennett shared ideas for A Chorus Line".
Wagner was a talent agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, spending 15 years representing some of the top Hollywood actors, including Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Val Kilmer, Demi Moore, Liam Neeson, Robert Towne, and Kathryn Bigelow. In 1993, she launched Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W) with her former CAA client Tom Cruise. For the next 13 years, Cruise and she produced a wide range of films that earned numerous awards, widespread critical praise, and global box office success. The first film released under the C/W banner was the international hit Mission: Impossible, the success of which brought the company the 1997 Nova Award for Most Promising Producers in Theatrical Motion Pictures.
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