Kerry Heysen-Hicks

Kerry Margaret Heysen (born May 30, 1945) is an Australian film producer from Adelaide, South Australia, known for her work on Shine (1996), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), No Reservations (2007), Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007) and The Lucky One (2012). Early life Heysen was born Kerry Margaret Madigan in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at Cabra College and Flinders University. Her father, Ted Madigan was a well-known South Australian radio broadcaster. Widowed at the age of 22, with a newborn son, she returned to school and entered Flinders University where she met fellow filmmaker, Scott Hicks. In 1971 Heysen and Hicks married and began a lifelong pursuit of making films together. Heysen and Hicks would go on the have a second son, Jethro Heysen-Hicks.