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Dana Fox

Dana Fox

Biography

Dana Fox (born September 18, 1976) is an American screenwriter. She is best known as the writer of The Wedding Date (2005), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and the television comedy series Ben and Kate (2012–13). Fox graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a degree in English and art history and went on to attend the University of Southern California (USC), where she took part in the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Peter Stark Producing Program and graduated in 2000. She had originally intended to become a film producer, but when assigned a homework task at USC to write a 30-page screenplay, she found that she enjoyed writing more and decided to become a screenwriter instead. She became an assistant to writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar while they were creating the Superman television series Smallville and later worked for writer-director John August. While represented by Gough and Millar's agent, established screenwriter Jessica Bendinger sought after an unpublished writer who would work inexpensively on a screenplay. Fox had not yet written a sample screenplay, but Bendinger was so impressed with her ideas for the story that Fox was hired to write the script. The produced film was The Wedding Date, which ultimately was panned by critics but a financial success. After The Wedding Date's release, she was attached to three separate writing projects. Her next produced screenplay was What Happens in Vegas, which was bought by 20th Century Fox in a high six-figure deal for the script's first draft and which stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. After What Happens in Vegas was bought, Fox performed rewrites on 27 Dresses (2008) and Knight and Day (2010) and was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2007. In 2012, Fox developed a half-hour comedy for FOX based loosely on her older brother. The show, Ben and Kate, premiered on September 25, 2012. Fox is good friends with fellow writers Diablo Cody (Juno), Lorene Scafaria (Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist), and Liz Meriwether (No Strings Attached), with whom she collaborates in a writing group they call the "Fempire." In 2012, Fox and the "Fempire" received the Athena Film Festival Award for Creativity and Sisterhood. Fox was born in Brighton, New York, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Fox married Quinn Emmett on October 23, 2010, at Historic Jamestowne in Williamsburg, Virginia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Fox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1976-07-16

Place of Birth

Brighton, New York, USA

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How to Be Single

How to Be Single

20166.3 / 10

Couples Retreat

Couples Retreat

20095.6 / 10

What Happens in Vegas

What Happens in Vegas

20086.1 / 10

Moonshot

Moonshot

20226.7 / 10

Couples Retreat

Couples Retreat

20095.6 / 10

Cruella

Cruella

20218.0 / 10

Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit

20155.7 / 10

How to Be Single

How to Be Single

20166.3 / 10

Untitled Ryan Reynolds Heist Comedy

Untitled Ryan Reynolds Heist Comedy

TBA0.0 / 10

The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date

20056.8 / 10

Isn't It Romantic

Isn't It Romantic

20196.2 / 10

An Officer and a Gentleman Remake

An Officer and a Gentleman Remake

TBA0.0 / 10

The Lost City

The Lost City

20226.5 / 10

Wicked

Wicked

20246.9 / 10

Wicked: For Good

Wicked: For Good

20250.0 / 10

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

TBA0.0 / 10