Gale Anne Hurd was born on October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, the daughter of Lolita and Frank E. Hurd, an investor. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Roman Catholic. She grew up in Palm Springs, California and graduated from Stanford University with a BA in economics and communications, and a minor in political science, in 1977. She joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to Roger Corman, the company president. She worked her way up through various administrative positions and eventually became involved in production. She formed her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982 and went on to produce a number of box-office hits including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), and The Abyss (1989). Hurd with the cast of The Walking Dead in October 2012. On October 3, 2012, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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