Sherry Lansing

Sherry Lansing
Lansing in 2002
Born
Sherry Lee Duhl

(1944-07-31) July 31, 1944 (age 79)
Alma materNorthwestern University (BS)
Occupations
  • Film studio executive
  • actress
Years active1968–2008
Spouses
Michael Brownstein
(m. 1967; div. 1970)
(m. 1991; died 2023)

Sherry Lansing (born Sherry Lee Duhl; July 31, 1944) is an American former film studio executive. The chairwoman of the Universal Music Group board of directors, she was the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures[1] 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 movie studio head to place hand and foot prints at the Grauman's Chinese Theater.[2][3] In 2001, she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in the US by Ladies' Home Journal,[4] and The Hollywood Reporter named her number 1 on its Power 100 list numerous times.[5]

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  4. ^ "Women's magazine rates influential females". Temple News. November 29, 2001. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
  5. ^ Cashman, Greer Fay (June 22, 2005). "Reflections of a power player". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2009.

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