Biography
Laurie Parker is a film producer. She trained in the Directors Guild of America's unit production manager and assistant director programme before entering the industry in the mid-1980s.
She worked at Samuel Goldwyn Company and later at Island Alive, where she became vice president of marketing and then vice president of production. In 1987 she joined Avenue Entertainment as vice president of production and served as executive in charge of production on Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Her first credit as an independent producer was Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991). She also produced Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) and Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003), among other films.
Parker received the Producers Guild of America award for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures for My Own Private Idaho.
