Michelle Manning

Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing ''Sixteen Candles'' and ''The Breakfast Club''. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997 to 2005. In 2017, she became an executive producer on the Disney Channel series ''Andi Mack''.

Career

She began her career with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola’s '' The Outsiders'' and ''Rumble Fish''. Manning worked as an executive for Ned Tanen’s Channel Productions, where she produced ''The Breakfast Club'' and was associate producer of ''Sixteen Candles''. Manning made her feature directorial debut in 1986 with '' Blue City'' for producers Walter Hill and William Hayward as well as musical sequences for Hill's ''Another 48 Hrs.'' In television, Manning directed episodes of ''Miami Vice'' and Paramount's '' Friday the 13th: The Series''.

Manning was Vice President of Production at Orion Pictures in the early 1990s, where she served as a production executive on Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning Best Pictures ''The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Silence of the Lambs'' and ''Dances with Wolves'' as well as ''Little Man Tate'', and ''The Addams Family (1991 film), The Addams Family'', which was then distributed by Paramount.

In 1991, Manning began working for Paramount Pictures as Senior Vice President of Production. In 1994 she was promoted to Executive Vice President of Production and was promoted again in 1997 to President of Production replacing John Goldwyn. As President, she oversaw all aspects of the studio's film development and production in addition to supervising the group's production executives. During her time at Paramount, she was involved in over 20 Paramount classic films such as ''Forrest Gump'' which won six Academy Awards including Best Picture; ''The Hours (film), The Hours'', which was nominated for nine Oscars; as well as ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', ''The Firm (1993 film), The Firm'', ''Nobody's Fool (1994 film), Nobody’s Fool'', ''Clueless (film), Clueless'', ''The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), The Talented Mr. Ripley'', ''Braveheart'', and ''Saving Private Ryan'', among many others.

After leaving Paramount Pictures, Manning launched the production company MM Productions in 2005.
Manning went on to produce Cruise/Wagner Productions, Cruise/Wagner Productions' ''The Eye (2008 film), The Eye'' starring Jessica Alba and Chloë Grace Moretz, and Mary Agnes Donoghue’s ''Jenny's Wedding'', starring Katherine Heigl and Tom Wilkinson. She also executive produced ''Prosecuting Casey Anthony'' starring Rob Lowe for Lifetime (TV network), Lifetime, as well as both ''Teen Beach 2'' and ''Adventures in Babysitting (2016 film), Adventures In Babysitting'' for the Disney Channel.

From 2017 to 2019, Manning was an Executive Producer on the groundbreaking Disney Channel series ''Andi Mack''. The show was produced by her production company, MM Productions. Manning directed eight episodes between its second and third seasons. It was the Disney Channel’s first serialized show, its first series centered around an Asian-American family, and its first to feature an LGBTQ character who spoke the words "I'm gay." ''Andi Mack'' was nominated for a Peabody Award and won both the inaugural GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Television Academy Honor which recognizes programming that educates and enlightens audiences.

In 2019, Manning executive produced Netflix’s ''The Dirt (film), The Dirt'' as well as ''Come Away'', starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo.

Personal life

Manning attended USC Film School.Gora, Susannah (2010). ''You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried''. — Three Rivers Press. p. 22.

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American film directors
American film producers
American film studio executives
American television directors
American women film directors
American women film producers
American women television directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
21st-century American women