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Richard LaGravenese
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: October 30, 1959 Biography:A prolific scenarist long associated with sensitive women's films ("Unstrung Heroes", "A Little Princess", "The Bridges of Madison County", "The Mirror Has Two Faces"), "Richard LaGravenese" cultivated a reputation for himself as the author of poignant, funny, and humanistic screenplays that gently touch the viewer's emotions without manipulating them.
A Big Apple native born October 30, 1959, LaGravenese came of age in Brooklyn and studied acting at New York University's experimental theater wing at the Tisch School for the Arts. As a student, he honed his skills with dialogue and formed a New York- and Toronto-based comedy troupe, for which he also wrote sketches. After a disastrous turn on the icky 1989 generation gap "comedy" Rude Awakening, starring Cheech Marin and Louise Lasser, LaGravenese supplemented his (unrelated) day job by working on the script for what became "The Fisher King" (1991)... Full Biography
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