Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (born Naomi Achs; March 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter. She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season. She is the Naomi from the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate...
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Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (born Naomi Achs; March 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter. She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season. She is the Naomi from the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two seasons.
Gyllenhaal was born Noami Achs in New York City, the daughter of Ruth (née Silbowitz) and Samuel Achs. She was raised in a family of "high-achieving New York Jews." She attended Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia University, in New York City, graduating with a BA in English. She later achieved an MA in Developmental Psychology at Columbia.
Her second ex-husband is the film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, with whom she has also collaborated professionally. They were married for 32 years. The couple's two children...
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