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Name: Amy Heckerling  
   
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Date of Birth: 7th May 1954
   
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, New York, USA
   
Profession: Director
 
 
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Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American film director, one of the few women directors to have produced multiple box-office hits.

Born in The Bronx, she studied film at New York University and received her master's degree from the AFI Conservatory.

Heckerling's first film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), about Los Angeles teenagers, was praised for the strong female characters played by Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and others. (The film also led to a short-lived series on CBS in the 1985-1986 season which Heckerling produced.) Heckerling's next film was a parody of gangster films, Johnny Dangerously (1984), starring Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, and Joe Piscopo, with fast talking characters familiar from 1930s screwball comedy. She directed the second of the National Lampoon vacation films, National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo.

She again had a massive hit with Look Who's Talking (1989), which starred John Travolta and Kirstie Alley raising a baby voiced by Bruce Willis. It was corny and many critics panned it, but it pleased audiences enough to warrant a sequel, Look Who's Talking Too (1990), which Heckerling also directed.

Heckerling wrote and directed an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, putting the story in another mythical Los Angeles high school, to produce Clueless (1995). In addition to making Alicia Silverstone a star, it was another box office hit. It would be another five years before Heckerling produced Loser (2000), a dark college comedy with Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari. It was not successful at the box office.

Amy Heckerling is currently directing the NBC version of The Office.

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