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Deborah Goodrich

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Deborah Goodrich

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  • Born
    May 11, 1958 · Mamaroneck, New York, USA

Biography

    • Graduated from Lake Erie College in 1980 with a bachelor of arts degree in modern foreign languages (French and Italian literature and history).

      She has spent her career in the arts, first as an actress in film and television; then, as a story editor at Miramax Films.

      Chosen as a recipient of the Sesquicentennial Fellow award at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio.
      - IMDb mini biography by: runningwiffscissors@yahoo.com

Family

  • Spouses
      Charles M. Royce(2002 - present)
      Pliny Porter(1986 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)
  • Children
      Tess Porter
      Alexandra Caroline Porter

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  • The combination of the birth of her first daughter and the 1988 writer's strike put an enormous damper on Goodrich's career. In 1991, first husband Pliny Porter got a job in France, so the family went along and she took a job as a reader at StudioCanal, giving input on English-language scripts. When the family returned to the USA in 1993, Goodrich was offered a job in script development at Miramax, which she did for the rest of the decade.
  • Friends with Julia Roberts and was a bridesmaid at her wedding to Lyle Lovett in 1993.
  • She serves on the board of directors of Literacy Volunteers of Stamford/Greenwich, Conn., where she also teaches writing to adult English as a second language students.
  • She also serves on the board of the Hunter Foundation and the Avon Theater Film Center, an independent cinema in Stamford that she and her husband restored and reopened.
  • She had two daughters with ex-husband Pliny Porter: Alexandra Caroline Porter who was born on October 16, 1987 and Tess Porter who was born on December 3, 1990.

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