Trivia

Was a contributor to Vanity Fair.

Attended Lincoln High School, Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and San Jose State University.

Father Blake, was an insurance man, and her mother Catherine worked at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Was a campaign manager for Janet Gray Hayes, elected mayor of San Jose in 1976.

After college she spent a few years as a private investigator.

Received a bachelor's degree in political science and American history San Jose State University.

From 1979-82 she was California Gov. Jerry Brown's press secretary during his second term, when she said she wrote about 300 press releases a year.

Served as the first president of the National Women's Political Caucus of California in 1973.

Contributed to The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Variety, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications.

Has two sons, Jake and Teo.

Resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts.

She was a featured speaker at Cannes, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Beauchamp wrote and co-produced the documentary film Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood, which premiered in 2000 on Turner Classic Movies, and for which she was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award.

She also wrote the documentary film The Day My God Died about young girls of Nepal sold into sexual slavery which played on PBS and was nominated for an Emmy in 2003.

Before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, she worked as a private investigator, a campaign manager, and served as Press Secretary to California Governor Jerry Brown.