Susannah Grant

Susannah Grant (born on January 4, 1963), is an award-winning American screenwriter and director. She wrote the screenplays for "Ever After", Steven Soderbergh's "Erin Brockovich", "28 Days" and Disney's "Pocahontas". For Erin Brockovich she received an Oscar nomination in 2001. After her nomination Grant adapted In Her Shoes and Charlotte's Web, as well as write and direct Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner. She is also an Amherst College alumna, having graduated in 1984. She later was accepted to the American Film Institute, and received the Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting.cite web | title=Susannah Grant | url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=241920&mod=bio/ | accessdate=November 17 | accessyear=2006 ]

Credits

*"Pocahontas" (1995)
*"Ever After" (1998)
*"Erin Brockovich" (2000)
*"28 Days" (2000)
*"In Her Shoes" (2005)
*"Catch and Release" (2006)
*"Charlotte's Web" (2006)
*"The Soloist" (TBA)

TV Appearances

Grant was featured in The Dialogue. In this 90 minute interview with journalist Jay A. Fernandez, Grant discusses the midwife vs. mother role of novel adaptations, the importance of finding your voice and why sometimes you just have to be able to really, really suck.

References

External links

* [http://www.thedialogueseries.com/bio_susannah_grant.shtml The Dialogue: Learn from the Masters Interview]
* [http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/index.html The Don and Gee Nichol Fellowships in Screenwriting]
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