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Debra Martin Chase
She is a very distinguished Hollywood producer with huge brands like The Princess Diaries, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Cheetah Girls under her belt. She had her breakthrough after having had the opportunity to run Denzel Washington’s production company Mundy Lane Entertainment, which produced Courage Under Fire and The Preacher’s Wife.
She later ran Whitney Houston’s production company Brown House Productions, which produced Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, before founding her own company, Chase Martin Productions in 2000, which is affiliated with Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Television Group. It was affiliated with the Walt Disney Company from 2001 to 2016.
The first African-American female producer to have a deal at a major studio whose projects entail diverse casting and strong women, partnered with Disney to produce The Princess Diaries films and The Cheetah Girls movie/musical franchise. She also produced the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films, as well as the film Just Wright and the television series Zoe Ever After. The Princess Diaries is her highest grossing film, earning $165.3 million worldwide.
