Sher, Stacey (Stacy Sher)

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Sher, Stacey (Stacy Sher)

PERSONAL

Born in New York, NY; raised in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Education: University of Southern California, M.F.A., film and television, c. 1985.

Addresses:

Office—Double Feature Films, 9465 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 950, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career:

Producer. Hill/Obst Productions, director of development, 1985-87, vice president of production, 1987-91; Lynda Obst Productions, senior vice president, 1991; Jersey Films, Los Angeles, executive vice president, 1991, president, beginning 1992; Double Feature Films, Beverly Hills, CA, partner. Also known as Stacy Sher.

Member:

Producers Guild of America (member of the board of directors), Women in Film (member of the board of directors).

Awards, Honors:

National Society of Film Critics Award and Boston Society of Film Critics Award, both best picture, 1998, for Out of Sight; Academy Award nomination, best picture, and Film Award nomination, best film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best film, both with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg, 2001, for Erin Brockovich.

CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

(With Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg) Pulp Fiction, Miramax, 1994.

(With William Barclay Malcolm) Reality Bites, Universal, 1994.

Drowning Mona, Destination Films, 2000.

Garden State, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2004.

Film Producer:

(With Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg) Get Shorty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1995.

(With DeVito and Shamberg) Feeling Minnesota, Fine Line Features, 1996.

(With DeVito, Shamberg, and Liccy Dahl) Matilda (also known as Roald Dahl's "Matilda"), TriStar, 1996.

Gattaca (also known as The Eighth Day), Columbia, 1997.

Living Out Loud, New Line Cinema, 1998.

Out of Sight, Universal, 1998.

Man on the Moon (also known as Der Mondmann), Universal, 1999.

(With DeVito and Shamberg) Erin Brockovich, Universal, 2000.

The Caveman's Valentine (also known as The Sign of the Killer), Universal, 2001.

How High, Universal, 2001.

Camp, IFC Films, 2003.

Along Came Polly, Universal, 2004.

Be Cool, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2005.

The Skeleton Key, Universal, 2005.

World Trade Center, Paramount, 2006.

Freedom Writers, Paramount, 2007.

Reno 911!: Miami (also known as Reno 911!: Miami: The Movie), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2007.

Party Boys, Lions Gate Films, c. 2008.

Film Associate Producer:

Heartbreak Hotel, Buena Vista, 1988.

(With Anthony Mark) The Fisher King, TriStar, 1991.

Worked on other projects.

Film Appearances:

Rayna, Vanilla Sky, Paramount, 2001.

Television Executive Producer; Series:

Kate Brasher (also known as The Further Adventures), CBS, 2001.

UC: Undercover (also known as Undercover), NBC, 2001-2002.

The American Embassy (also known as Emma Brody), Fox, 2002.

Reno 911!, Comedy Central, 2003—.

Karen Sisco (also known as Ofiter Karen), ABC, 2003, USA Network, 2004.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

The Pentagon Wars, HBO, 1998.

Television Executive Producer; Pilots:

Celebrity, Fox, 2000.

Detective Streets, 2001.

The Funkhousers (also known as The Funkhausers), ABC, 2002.

Live at Five Feet, NBC, 2002.

Other People's Business (also known as Dicks), The WB, 2003.

Steve O, Fox, 2003.

Sorry Charlie, Fox, 2004.

You the Jury, ABC, 2004.

Thievery, NBC, 2005.

Whistleblowers, ABC, 2005.

Worked on other projects, including serving as the executive producer for the pilots Silicon Stories, ABC; and Super Troopers, Fox.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Panelist, 9 Movie Moments That Made the '90s (also known as 9 Movie Moments [That Made] the '90s), MTV, 1999.

Herself, What Is a Producer?, E! Entertainment Television, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Herself, "Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder," Omnibus, BBC, 1994.

Herself, Intimate Portrait: Erin Brockovich, Lifetime, 2003.

Herself, Sunday Morning Shootout, American Movie Classics, 2004.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Herself, Man on the Moon: Behind the Moonlight (short; also known as Spotlight on Location: Man on the Moon), Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2000.

Herself, The Making of "World Trade Center," Paramount Home Entertainment, 2006.