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Chairman, Paramount Motion Pictures Group

Nationality: American.

Born: July 31, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois.

Education: Northwestern University, BS, 1966.

Family: Daughter of Norton and Margo L. Heimann; married William Friedkin (film director), 1991; children: two.

Career: Los Angeles Unified School District, 1966–1969, teacher; 1970–1973, worked variously as an actor, model, and script reader; MGM, 1973–1975, story editor; 1975–1977, chief story editor; 1977, vice president for creative affairs;...