The President of Sydney Pollack's Mirage Enterprises and producer of some of the company's most literate projects, Lindsay Doran was born in the heart of Los Angeles' film community, but after college (University of California at Santa Cruz), she fled to London. There, she contributed to "The Oxford Companion to Film" and "The World Encyclopedia of Film". Doran's next base was central Pennsylvania, where she wrote and produced documentaries for a local station, WPSX.In 1979, Doran finally returned to her roots, moving back to L.A. and joining Avco Embassy Pictures, as assistant to the director
