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This article is about the TV Series producer. You may be looking for the Webisodes character.

Gale Anne Hurd is an executive producer who produced AMC's The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

Biography

Hurd was born in Los Angeles, California in 1955. The daughter of Lolite and Frank E. Hurd, she grew up in Palm Springs, California and graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Communications.

After college, she was hired as an executive assistant to Roger Corman at New World Pictures. She began working her way through various administrative positions which led to her becoming involved on the production side of pictures. She former her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982.

Under Pacific Western Productions, Hurd produced a number of box-office hits including The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss all directed by her then husband, James Cameron.

In 1998, Hurd was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award. In 2003, she was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology along with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. On October 3, 2012, Hurd recieved a "Hollywood Walk of Fame Star" for her outstanding work on many programs and movies, including The Walking Dead. Many cast members from The Walking Dead attended the ceremony, including Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Sarah Wayne Callies, Danai Gurira, Lauren Cohan, David Morrissey, IronE Singleton, Scott Wilson, Steven Yeun, Michael Rooker, and Laurie Holden.[1]

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