Biografia
Gary Lucchesi has served as the President of Lakeshore Entertainment, an independent film company based in Beverly Hills. He has also served as the Co-President of the Producer's Guild of America. He has produced over 60 films over the course of his career, most notably: Million Dollar Baby, which Lucchesi executive-produced, and went on to win the Academy Award® for Best Picture in 2004; Primal Fear, the first movie Lucchesi produced, which was nominated for an Oscar® in 1996; The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei; the Underworld franchise; The Age of Adaline, and the Crank franchise. Lucchesi's other credits include The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, Sam Raimi's The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear, and three adaptations of Philip Roth novels – The Human Stain, Elegy, and American Pastoral. In addition, Lucchesi was the Executive Producer on the box-office hit Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and directed by Garry Marshall.
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Lucchesi was President of Production at Paramount, where he oversaw such films as Ghost, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fatal Attraction, The Hunt for Red October, Coming To America, The Naked Gun, The Godfather: Part III, Star Trek, Black Rain and The Untouchables. He worked at TriStar Pictures for four years as both Vice President and Senior Vice President of Production. Lucchesi began his career in Los Angeles as an agent for the William Morris Agency.
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