Paula Wagner (born 12 December 1946) is an American film producer and film executive.
Wagner was born Paula Sue Kauffman in Youngstown, Ohio. Her mother, Sue Anna (née Shofstall), was a newsmagazine editor from Oklahoma, and her father, Edmund Jamison "Ned" Kauffman, Jr., was a business owner.
She attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wagner was a talent agent at Creative Artists Agency, spending 15 years rep...
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Paula Wagner (born 12 December 1946) is an American film producer and film executive.
Wagner was born Paula Sue Kauffman in Youngstown, Ohio. Her mother, Sue Anna (née Shofstall), was a newsmagazine editor from Oklahoma, and her father, Edmund Jamison "Ned" Kauffman, Jr., was a business owner.
She attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wagner was a talent agent at Creative Artists Agency, spending 15 years representing some of the top talent in the business such as Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Val Kilmer, Demi Moore, Liam Neeson, Robert Towne, and Kathryn Bigelow. In 1993, she launched Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W) with her former CAA client Tom Cruise. For the next 13 years, she and Cruise produced a wide range of pictures that earned numerous awards, widespread critical praise, and global box office success. The first film released under the C/W banner was the international hit Mission: Impossible, the success of which brought the...
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