Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger. Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally..., ...
May 19, 1941, New York City, New York, United States
Died
June 26, 2012, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
New York City
Profession
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Film director, Film Producer, Author, Actor, Journalist, Essayist, Playwright
Education
Wellesley College
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Nicholas Pileggi (m. 1987–2012), Carl Bernstein (m. 1976–1980), Dan Greenburg (m. 1967–1976)
Children
Jacob Bernstein, Max Bernstein
Parents
Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
Siblings
Delia Ephron, Amy Ephron, Hallie Ephron
Nicknames
Эфрон, Нора , 諾拉·艾芙倫
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Glamour Woman of the Year Award, Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction, Ian McLellan Hunter Award
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Tony Award for Best Play, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Edgar A...
Movies
When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle
TV Shows
Hopeless Pictures, Where's Elvis This Week?
Star Sign
Taurus
#
Quote
1
A successful parent is one who raises their child to be able to pay for their own psychoanalysis.
2
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
3
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
4
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
5
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
6
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
7
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
8
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
9
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
10
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
11
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
12
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
13
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
14
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
15
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
16
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
17
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
18
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
19
[on feminine hygiene aids] There are a lot of men who manufacture the product who are so reluctant to talk straight about it that you can spend hours with them and not hear one anatomical phrase. They speak of 'the problem'. They speak of 'the area where the problem exists'. Every so often a hard-core word slides into the conversation. Vagina, maybe. Or sometimes from someone particularly scientific or candid, a vulva or two.
20
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
21
[on success] Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
22
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
New York, NY, USA: Eight months after her death, Ephron's play 'Lucky Guy' opens on Broadway for a limited run starring her longtime friend Tom Hanks. [February 2013]
4
In her most recent book, "I Remember Nothing," she ends the collection of essays with two lists: What I Won't Miss, and What I Will Miss. After the lists come the acknowledgments, which ends with "and of course, my doctors."
5
She was cremated and her ashes scattered.
6
Ex-sister-in-law of Sasha Harari (husband of sister Amy).
Upon her death, it was revealed that Ephron had been diagnosed only a few years before with myelodysplastic syndrome, a pre-leukemic condition. It was a secret she shared with only a few close famly members and friends.
9
Sister-in-law of Jerome Kass (husband of sister Delia).
10
In a 2005 interview with Tom Brokaw, she stated that even though then husband Carl Bernstein didn't make her privy to the identity of Watergate informant "Deep Throat," she figured it out from clues (including Bernstein's notes referencing the initials "M. F." -- allegedly for "my friend") and was willing to tell her guess to anyone who asked. Her guess was proved correct when on May 31, 2005, W. Mark Felt, former assistant director of the FBI during the Richard Nixon administration, was identified as Deep Throat.
$40 Million
