Sherry Lansing

About

Served as CEO of Paramount Pictures and president of production at 20th Century Fox. She was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio.

Before fame

She attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Trivia

She was also the first woman studio head to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the first woman studio head to have her hands and footprints placed at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

Family life

She was married to .

Associated with

She was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by Tom Cruise.