Karen Leigh Hopkins
- Drehbuch
- Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Biografie
Karen Leigh Hopkins (also Karen Lee Hopkins) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress born in Sandusky, Ohio. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting but pivoted to writing after her scenes were cut from The Breakfast Club (1985) and Three Amigos. Her first screenplay, The Kindness of Strangers, was written in 12 days and sold to Paramount, launching her career behind the camera. As an actress, Hopkins is best known for playing Brenda in The Running Man (1987), with additional credits in Corrina, Corrina (1994) and Mafia! (1998). Her most notable writing and producing credits include Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990), Stepmom (1998, co-writer, starring Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts, $160M worldwide), Because I Said So (2007, writer and associate producer, starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore), Miss Meadows (2014, writer, director, and executive producer, Tribeca premiere), Little Voice (2020, Apple TV+), and Love Is Love Is Love (2020). She won the Humanitas Prize for Searching for David's Heart (2004) and received an Emmy nomination for What Girls Learn.
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Filmografie
- Love Is Love Is Love · Drehbuch
- Her Voice · Consulting Producer, Buch
- You Can't Take My Daughter · Buch, Produktion
- Paris kann warten · Dank
- Miss Meadows · Ausführende Produktion, Regie
- Von Frau zu Frau · Milly's Staff #2 Charlie, Drehbuch
- Searching for David's Heart · Buch
- What Girls Learn · Teleplay
- A Woman's a Helluva Thing · Jessie, Regie
- Seite an Seite · Drehbuch
- Mafia! Eine Nudel macht noch keine Spaghetti! · Nurse
- Dillinger and Capone · Ragtop Blonde
- Corrina, Corrina · Liala Sheffield
- Mask of Murder 2 · Psycho-slut #1
- Grapevine · Marsha
- Ein Mädchen namens Dinky · Buch, Ausführende Produktion
- Wer ist Harry Crumb? · Office Worker
- Running Man · Brenda
- Das turboscharfe Spanner-Motel · Luna
- Ein tödliches Spiel · Receptionist
- Auf die Bäume, ihr Affen · Aerobics Leader
- In Love with an Older Woman · The Blonde
- When Stroker Strikes · Electra