Dana Fox

Dana Fox
Dana Fox
Born July 16, 1976
Brighton, New York, U.S.
Occupation Screenwriter
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
Notable work(s) What Happens in Vegas (2008)

Dana Fox (born July 16, 1976) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2005 film The Wedding Date and the 2008 film What Happens in Vegas.

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Career

Fox graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a degree in English and art history,[2] and went on to attend the University of Southern California (USC), where she took part in the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Peter Stark Producing Program and graduated in 2000.[3] She had originally intended to become a film producer, but when assigned a homework task at USC to write a 30-page screenplay, she found that she enjoyed writing more and decided to become a screenwriter instead.[2] She became an assistant to writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar while they were creating the Superman television series Smallville, and later worked for writer-director John August.[1]

While represented by Gough and Millar's agent, established screenwriter Jessica Bendinger sought after an unpublished writer who would work inexpensively on a screenplay. Fox had not yet written a sample screenplay, but Bendinger was so impressed with her ideas for the story that Fox was hired to write the script. The produced film was The Wedding Date, which ultimately was panned by critics but a financial success.[2] After The Wedding Date's release, she was attached to three separate writing projects.[2] Her next produced screenplay was What Happens in Vegas, which was bought by 20th Century Fox in a high six-figure deal in the script's first draft and which stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.[1] After What Happens in Vegas was bought, Fox performed rewrites on 27 Dresses (2008) and Knight and Day (2010), and was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2007.[1]

Personal life

Fox currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she works with fellow writers—who call themselves best friends—Diablo Cody (Juno) and Lorene Scafaria (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) in a writing group they jokingly call "The Fempire".[4] Fox married Quinn Emmett on October 22, 2010 at the Jamestown Fort in Williamsburg Virginia.

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