Amanda Silver

Amanda Silver, native of New York and graduate in history from Yale University, was an executive assistant at Tri-Star Pictures and Paramount Pictures before enrolling in film school at University of Southern California, where she earned her MFA in Screenwriting.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, her thesis script, opened in 1992. An Ace Award winning episode of Fallen Angels, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, followed in 1993. Silver has written and produced screenplays with her husband and collaborator Rick Jaffa for 25 years, resulting in such films as Eye for an Eye and the The Relic.

In 2011 the couple wrote and produced the award-winning Rise of the Planet of The Apes at 20th Century Fox, which was a re-imagining of the Planet of the Apes franchise.

Silver and Jaffa worked with James Cameron on sequels to Avatar. They wrote and produced Dawn of the Planet of The Apes, the sequel to Rise of The Planet of The Apes, scheduled for release in the summer of 2014. They produced In The Heart of The Sea, with Ron Howard directing, and Jurassic World.

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