Julia Phillips

About

Produced Taxi Driver and The Sting and was also the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Film. She produced The Beat, The Numerology: 2, and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.

Before Fame

She studied at Mount Holyoke College and then worked for some time editing magazine articles.

Trivia

She died from cancer on New Year's Day in West Hollywood in 2002. She had a small role in the 1977 sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Family Life

She married Michael Phillips whom she met in 1965.

Associated With

She collaborated with such legends as Robert De Niro.