Hilary Henkin

Nationality:
American
Birthplace:
New Orleans, Louisiana
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biography
Raised on the deliciously sour milk of film noir, screenwriter Hilary Henkin is one of the vaunted few female writers to break into the exclusively male world of hard-boiled but heady action-adventure and to venture fearlessly into the moral labyrinths of villainy and violence. A script for Warner Bros. called "Free Fall" ("a very violent piece"), about three astronauts who nearly die in space and return to find their previous lives have disappeared, didn't get filmed but made her a reputation. Early pictures "Fatal Beauty" (1987) and "Road House" (1989) met with little success, but Henkin Continued
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1998
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1989
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1989
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milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Memphis, Tennessee and NYC
 
Worked as a go-go dancer in NYC in the 1970s
1987 
Shared screenwriting credit on "Fatal Beauty"
1989 
Co-wrote script for "Road House"
1993 
Wrote screenplay for Peter Medak's "Romeo is Bleeding" (also co-produced)
Continued