Amy Pascal

Born

1958-03-25

Birthplace

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Amy Pascal (born March 25, 1958) is an American film producer and business executive. She served as the chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and co-chairperson of SPE, including Sony Pictures Television, from 2006 until 2015. She has overseen the production and distribution of many films and television programs and was co-chairperson during the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. The leak uncovered multiple emails from Pascal that were deemed racist, including racial jokes aimed at then-President Barack Obama. She left Sony, and Pascal later admitted that she was fired from the company. Pascal started her own production company, Pascal Pictures, which made its debut with the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot. In 2017, she produced Spider-Man: Homecoming, Molly's Game, and The Post. She has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture nominations for producing The Post and Little Women and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for producing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Pascal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.