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Michelle Manning

Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997-2005. Since 2017, she has been an executive producer on the groundbreaking Disney Channel series Andi Mack.

She began her career with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Manning worked as an executive for Ned Tanen's Channel Productions, where she produced The Breakfast Club and was associate producer of Sixteen Candles. Manning made her feature directorial debut in 1986 with Blue City for producers Walter Hill and William Hayward as well as musical sequences for Hill's Another 48 Hrs. In television, Manning directed episodes of Miami Vice and Paramount's Friday the 13th: The Series.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Eye
  • Come Away

Known For

  • The Eye
  • Adventures in Babysitting
  • Teen Beach 2
  • Blue City
  • Andi Mack
  • Jenny's Wedding
  • Miami Vice
  • Amber Brown
  • Friday the 13th: The Series

Filmography

2020
Come Away · as Executive Producer
2019
The Dirt · as Executive Producer
2017
Andi Mack (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2016
Adventures in Babysitting · as Executive Producer
2015
2015
Teen Beach 2 · as Executive Producer
2013
Prosecuting Casey Anthony · as Executive Producer
2008
1985
The Breakfast Club · as Co-Producer
1984
Sixteen Candles · as Associate Producer

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