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I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.
Laura Ziskin
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Laura Ziskin
Age: 61 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 3
Died: 2011
Died: June 12
Film Producer
Television Producer
The Valley
Laura Ellen Ziskin
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