Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Naomi Gyllenhaal (née Achs, previously Foner; born March 4, 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 played the character Naomi in the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two seasons. In 2013, she made her directorial debut with Very Good Girls, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival before attaining online and theatrical distribution in the USA with Tribeca Film. She is currently collaborating on a script for a US/Chinese co-production titled Moon Flower and the Flying Tigers.
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| Birth date | March 15, 1946 |
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| Birth name | Naomi Achs |
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