Rebecca Eaton (born November 7, 1947) is an American television and film producer best known for introducing American audiences to British costume and countryside dramas as executive producer of the PBS Masterpiece series. In 2011 she was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World". Eaton was born in Boston and raised in Pasadena, California, her father a Caltech English literature professor and her mother, Katherine Emery, an actress both on Broadway (in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour) and in film. Eaton recalls visiting New York every summer to see Broadway shows as well as spending her junior high school days lost in Jane Eyre. By 2011 she had been executive producer of the show for more than 25 of its 40 years on the air.

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