Rachael Horovitz

Rachael Horovitz (born 1962) is an American film producer. She is known for producing the film Moneyball, and the TV series Patrick Melrose. Early life Horovitz is the daughter of playwright Israel Horovitz and the late painter Doris (née Keefe), and the sister of the musician Adam Horovitz. Her father is Jewish, whereas her mother, who was of Irish descent, was Catholic. Raised in Greenwich Village in an eclectic household filled with artists, musicians, writers, and seamstresses, Horovitz graduated from Phillips Academy Andover. She also attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a member of St. Anthony Hall. After college, she lived in Paris where, at the suggestion of family friend playwright Samuel Beckett, she went to work at Shakespeare and Co. bookstore on the Left Bank. Following her return to New York, she worked in Mayor Edward I. Koch's administration as an assistant to Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern. Career Horovitz began working in film in 1985 when she was hired to work at Dino De Laurentiis Productions in publicity. While at the company, she worked on campaigns for David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Michael Cimino's The Sicilian and Roman Polanski's Pirates, among other films. In 1988 she began producing short works by young playwrights such as Kenneth Lonergan and Jon Robin Baitz at the Naked Angels theatre company, and also produced the Rushmore Festival, known for its commissions of new American translations of classical plays. During her tenure, she commissioned and produced the award-winning Paul Schmidt translation of Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, which had its premiere at the festival. Horovitz's film projects at that time included developing screenplays with emerging writer/directors Lonergan, Noah Baumbach, and Brad Anderson. In 1990, Horovitz produced her first feature, No Telling. She also developed and co-produced Next Stop Wonderland. Horovitz joined New Line Cinema as Vice President of Fine Line Features where she developed Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's screenplay Rushmore. She and acquired dozens of films including works by Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci and Michel Gondry. She was also responsible for bringing into the company and supervising award-winning comedy State and Main, which she co-produced, as well as About Schmidt, which she executive produced. The film won Golden Globe Awards for Nicholson and the screenplay, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.