Director

Michelle Manning

Production

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.5

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 1All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 56738

IMDb ID: nm0543339

Known for: Production

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1984 - 2020

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.68

Wikidata: Q6837147

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Executive Producer (4)Producer (2)Assistant Camera (1)Associate Producer (1)Co-Executive Producer (1)Co-Producer (1)

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Biography

Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997-2005. Since 2017, she has been an executive producer on the groundbreaking Disney Channel series Andi Mack. She began her career with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Manning worked as an executive for Ned Tanen's Channel Productions, where she produced The Breakfast Club and was associate producer of Sixteen Candles. Manning made her feature directorial debut in 1986 with Blue City for producers Walter Hill and William Hayward as well as musical sequences for Hill's Another 48 Hrs. In television, Manning directed episodes of Miami Vice and Paramount's Friday the 13th: The Series.

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