Amy Heckerling

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Amy Heckerling Fast Facts:

Three then-unknown "alumni" from her feature directorial debut, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), went on to win Best Actor Oscars: Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Sean Penn for Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008).
Conceived of the idea for her box-office hit Look Who's Talking (1989) after the birth of daughter Mollie; Heckerling and her then-husband, Neal Israel, would stare at their baby and wonder what she was thinking.
Coauthored with Pamela Pettler The No-Sex Handbook (1990), a tongue-in-cheek antidating manual.
Won Best Screenplay honors from the National Society of Film Critics for the 1995 hit Clueless, a comedic update of Jane Austen's Emma.
Three of her films have been made into TV sitcoms: Fast Times ran for a few weeks in 1986 on CBS; Look Who's Talking became ABC's Baby Talk in 1991; and Clueless aired on ABC from 1996 to '97 and UPN from '97 to '99.

Amy Heckerling Relationships:
Mollie Sara - Daughter
Bronson Pinchot - Ex-fiancé
Neal Israel - Ex-husband
College:
New York University, New York, NY; American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (MFA, 1974)