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My Take
Callie Khouri belongs to a rare club: writers who altered cinema with essentially one screenplay. Thelma & Louise earned her the 1992 Academy Award and Golden Globe, and it has since hardened into a genuine classic, two women in a car becoming a verdict on everything that boxed them in. What impresses me is not that she later directed and produced, but the sheer force of that debut. Most careers never land a punch that large. The fact that she is still defined by it is not a limitation in my eyes, it is the mark of having written something that genuinely shifted the culture.
Overview
Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri (born November 27, 1957) is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. She is best known for writing Thelma & Louise, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Thelma & Louise has since grown to be considered a classic, and was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in December 2016.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Callie Khouri
- Name (Japanese)
- カーリー・クーリ
- Reading
- かーりー・くーり
- Born
- November 27, 1957 (age 68)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rooster
- Origin
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / film director / film producer / playwright / writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Writers Guild of America Award
- 1992 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- 1992 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Thelma & Louise | — |
6. Links
Screenwriter — see all → · Film director — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.