Anne Spielberg
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- Screenwriter
- producer
Anne Spielberg | |
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| Born | December 25, 1949 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1968–present |
| Spouse | Danny Opatoshu |
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| Relatives | Steven Spielberg (brother) Nancy Spielberg (sister) Kate Capshaw (sister-in-law) |
Anne Spielberg (born December 25, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film producer. She is best known as the co-producer and co-writer of the screenplay for the 1988 movie Big. She is the younger sister of film director Steven Spielberg.[1][2][3][4]
Born on December 25, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Anne Spielberg is a daughter of the late Arnold Spielberg, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the late Leah (née Posner) Spielberg, and also the sister of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Nancy Spielberg and Sue Spielberg.[5]
Career
After working for her brother's production company, Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg and her neighbor Gary Ross co-wrote the movie Big in 1988, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She was also a co-producer on the film, along with noted television and film producer James L. Brooks. Spielberg was an uncredited co-writer of the Amblin Entertainment film Small Soldiers (1998).[6]
In 2025, Pierce Press announced the acquisition of Spielberg’s picture book, The Iceberg and the Penguin, to be published in the spring of 2027[7] with artist Daniel Fiore chosen to provide illustrations. The forthcoming book was described by the publisher as “an engaging and hopeful story, (which) delivers a poignant message on climate change.”
