Debra Martin Chase

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Debra Martin Chase (11 October 1956 - ) is a Hollywood producer and former lawyer who was named by Savoy magazine in August 2003 as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the United States and by Black Enterprise magazine in 2007 as one of the Top 50 Powerbrokers in Hollywood. [1]

[edit] Background

Chase was born in Great Lakes, Illinois but moved to Pasadena, California as a child. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1977 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981.

[edit] Career

She practiced law throughout the 1980s, eventually moving to the film industry when she joined the legal department at Columbia Studios. She ran Denzel Washington's Mundy Lane Entertainment from 1992-1995 and Whitney Houston's Brown House Productions from 1995-2000. She formed her own company, Martin Chase Productions in 2000. [2]

Chase volunteers for a number of organizations and is currently a "producing mentor" for the University of Southern California. [3]

[edit] Honors

Chase has been honored by: [4]

• May 2007: Ebony magazine - Television and Film Award for Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications
• October 2003: Essence magazine - 50 African American women shaping the world

[edit] Producer credits

Martin Chase Productions:

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
• The Cheetah Girls (2003)

Brown House Productions:

• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
• The Princess Diaries (2001)
• Cinderella (1997)

Mundy Lane Entertainment:

• The Preacher's Wife (1996)
• Courage Under Fire (1996)
• The Pelican Brief (1993)

[edit] External links

• Biography
• Chasing Hollywood -Mount Holyoke College
• For 'Princess' producer, movie dreams really do come true - USA Today
• Hollywood Hit Maker
• Debra Martin Chase at the Internet Movie Database

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