ABOUT LESLIE DIXON
Screenwriter whose credits include: Hairspray, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Pay it Forward.
She was raised in Manhattan.
She received a Saturn Award nomination for her screenplay for the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday.
She married fellow screenwriter Tom Ropelewski.
She wrote the screenplay for film Pay it Forward, which starred Haley Joel Osment as the precocious lead.
