DIXON, Leslie

PERSONAL

Father, a writer; married Tom Ropelewski (a writer, director, and producer); granddaughter of Maynard Dixon (an artist) and Dorothea Lange (a photographer); children: Thomas Dixon Ropelewski. Avocational Interests: Reading, attending movies.

Addresses: Agent—Todd Feldman, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer and producer.

Awards, Honors: Saturn Award nomination (with Heather Hach), best writing, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, 2004, for Freaky Friday.

CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

Loverboy, TriStar, 1989.

Look Who's Talking Now, TriStar, 1993.

Film Producer:

Madhouse, Orion, 1990.

That Old Feeling, Universal, 1997.

The Next Best Thing, Paramount, 2000.

Radio Appearances; Episodic:

On the Media, National Public Radio, 2004.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Outrageous Fortune, Buena Vista, 1987.

Overboard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1987.

Loverboy, TriStar, 1989.

(With Tom Ropelewski) Look Who's Talking Now (based on characters created by Amy Heckerling), TriStar, 1993.

(With Randi Mayem Singer) Mrs. Doubtfire (based on a novel by Anne Fine), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993.

That Old Feeling, Universal, 1997.

The Thomas Crown Affair (based on an earlier film of the same name), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1999.

Pay It Forward (based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hide), Warner Bros., 2000.

(With others) Bringing down the House, Buena Vista, 2003.

(With Heather Hach) Freaky Friday (based on an earlier film of the same name and the book by Mary Rodgers), Buena Vista, 2003.

(Uncredited) Ice Princess, Buena Vista, 2005.

Just Like Heaven (also known as If Only It Were True), DreamWorks, 2005.

Author of the screenplay Glimpses of the Moon. Some sources cite Dixon's screenplay work on the film Runaway Bride, Paramount, 1999.