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Sherry Lansing (born Sherry Lee Duhl; July 31, 1944) is an American former film studio executive serving as chairwoman of Universal Music Group's board of directors since 2023. She previously served as chairwoman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, and president of production at 20th Century Fox prior to her retirement. From 1999 to 2022, she was on the University of California Board of Regents.

In 2005, she became the first female film studio head to place hand and footprints at the Grauman's Chinese Theater. In 2001, she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in the US by Ladies' Home Journal,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and The Hollywood Reporter named her number 1 on its Power 100 list numerous times.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Lansing was born Sherry Lee Duhl in Chicago, Illinois, to Margaret Heimann and real estate investor David Duhl. Her mother fled from Nazi Germany in 1937, at the age of 17. After her father died when Lansing was nine, her mother remarried Norton S. Lansing.<ref name="urlSherry Lansing: from making movies to curing cancer / UCLA Today">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was raised in a Jewish household.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Lansing attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and graduated in 1962. In 1966, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Northwestern University and graduated cum laude. She was a member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority.<ref name="BIO2" />

AboutEdit

CareerEdit

ActingEdit

Lansing briefly dabbled in acting, appearing as Susan in the 1970 rom-com Loving, starring Eva Marie Saint and George Segal. Also in 1970, Lansing played Amelita in Academy Award-winning director Howard Hawks’ last film Rio Lobo, starring John Wayne. Lansing also appeared in several television shows and documentaries about films, and the actors, and actresses, starring in them. Dissatisfied with her own acting skills, she decided to learn more about the film industry from the ground up.<ref>"Lansing, Sherry (Lee)."Current Biography 1981.The H.W. Wilson Company New York.1981.p. 265.</ref>

ProductionEdit

Lansing took a job with MGM as head script reader. She then became VP of Production at Columbia Pictures and oversaw two highly-successful films, The China Syndrome and Kramer vs. Kramer, both released in 1979. Her work at Columbia Pictures eventually led to an appointment with 20th Century Fox in 1980, at age 35, as the first female production president of a major studio.<ref name="BOOK2">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="PSN" /><ref name="res">Template:Cite magazine</ref> She resigned in December 1982 and became a partner with Stanley R. Jaffe (with whom she shares a birthday) to form Jaffe-Lansing Productions based at Paramount Pictures.<ref name="PSN" /> The company released a consistent string of minor hits through Paramount before achieving box-office success with Fatal Attraction in 1987, for which Jaffe and Lansing received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture the following year.

The partnership also produced The Accused (1988) starring Jodie Foster, about rape and its impact on a victim's life. The film featured a graphic rape scene and was highly controversial when released. Made with a small budget of $6 million, it grossed over $37 million worldwide, becoming a box office hit.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other Jaffe-Lansing productions include Black Rain (1989), starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, and Ken Takakura, as well as School Ties (1992), starring Brendan Fraser. On her own, Lansing produced the very successful Indecent Proposal (1993), starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson.

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Lansing in 1980

Chairman of ParamountEdit

In 1992, Lansing was offered the chairmanship of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group.<ref name="PSN" /> During her tenure at Paramount, the studio enjoyed its longest and most successful string of releases since the 1930s. Under Lansing, the studio produced such hits as Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and what was, at the time, history's highest-grossing film – Titanic (the latter two during a partnership with 20th Century Fox).<ref name="PSN" /><ref name="UCLA" /><ref name="BOOK1" />

Viacom (which purchased Paramount in 1994) split the company into two parts in 2004 and Lansing stepped down at the end of that year after an almost unprecedented twelve-year tenure atop Hollywood's legendary "Best Show in Town."<ref name="BIO1" /><ref name="BOOK1" />

She served as a Regent of the University of California from 1999–2022, and as chairman of the board from 2011–2013.<ref name="BIO2" /><ref name="PSN" /><ref name="UCLA" /> She sits on the boards of the Broad Museum, The Carter Center,<ref name="BOOK1" /> the Entertainment Industry Foundation, The W.M. Keck Foundation, the Lasker Foundation, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and Scripps Research. In 2007, she founded the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program, on whose board she serves as chair. She is also co-founder of the Stand Up To Cancer initiative, which funds research teams bringing cancer treatments to patients faster.

Chairman of Universal Music Group Board of DirectorsEdit

Lansing was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Universal Music Group in 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PhilanthropyEdit

In 2005, she created the Sherry Lansing Foundation, which is dedicated to raising awareness and funds for cancer research, K-12 public education, and encore career opportunities.<ref name="BIO1" /><ref name="PSN" /><ref name="BOOK1">Template:Cite book</ref> She is a recipient of UCLA Anderson School of Management's highest honor-the Exemplary Leadership in Management (ELM) Award.Template:Citation needed

In 2007, she received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work in cancer research at the 79th Academy Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2011, Lansing pledged $5 million to University of Chicago Laboratory Schools to build a new arts wing, including a 250-seat performance venue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In March 2020, she hosted a fundraiser for Joe Biden at her home.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Lansing married fellow student Michael Brownstein in 1967 while attending Northwestern University. They divorced in 1970.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was married to director William Friedkin from 1991 until his death in 2023.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Lansing and former MGM studio head James T. Aubrey were struck by a car while crossing Wilshire Boulevard in 1978. Both were badly hurt and Lansing had to use crutches for a year and a half.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

FilmographyEdit

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Awards and recognitionEdit

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