Marc Lawrence (born October 22, 1959) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer.
Lawrence is best known for his numerous collaborations with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant. He wrote the comedy films Forces of Nature (1999), Miss Congeniality (2000), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005). He wrote and directed the comedy films Two Weeks Notice (2002), Music and Lyrics (2007), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), The Rewrite (2014), and Noelle (2019).
Early life Lawrence was born on October 22, 1959, in Brooklyn. In 1981, he graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in English and attended New York University School of Law for one year.
Career Lawrence moved to Los Angeles after college and served as a staff writer and then supervising producer on NBC's Family Ties from 1984 to 1989.Ashley Scott Meyers, "Writer/director Marc Lawrence talks about his new film The Rewrite", sellingyourscreenplay.com.
Lawrence has written films such as Life with Mikey (1993), Forces of Nature (1999), the remake of The Out-of-Towners (1999), Miss Congeniality (2000), and its sequel Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005). He has both written and directed Two Weeks Notice (2002), Music and Lyrics (2007), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), The Rewrite (2014), and Noelle (2019).
Personal life Lawrence met his wife, Linda, when he was in college. The couple lives in New York City and have three children: Clyde, Gracie, and Linus. Clyde and Gracie are the frontman and frontwoman of an 8-piece soul-pop band, Lawrence, and are signed to Jon Bellion's record label, Beautiful Mind Records.
Filmography Film YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer1993Life with Mikey1999Forces of NatureThe Out-of-Towners2000Miss Congeniality2002Two Weeks Notice2005Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous2007Music and Lyrics2009Did You Hear About the Morgans?2014The Rewrite2019Noelle
Television The numbers in credits refer to the number of episodes.
YearTitleDirectorWriterExecutive ProducerNotes1984–1989Family Ties (30) (29)Also story editor (31 episodes)1985Family Ties VacationTV movie 1994Sweet Valley High (1)Episode: "The Curse of Lawrence Manson"Monty (1) (13)Creator1995Pride & Joy (3) (3) (6)Creator
Music YearTitleFilmNotes2000"Miss United States"Miss CongenialityCo-writer and producer2002"Baby (You've Got What It Takes)"Two Weeks NoticeHarmonica accompaniment (as Blind Lemon Lipschitz)2007"Buddha's Delight"Music and LyricsCo-writer"Bad Hot Witch"Co-writer"Love Autopsy"Writer"Slam"Co-writer
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