Personal Info
Birth date
1949-06-23 (76 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Production
Place of birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also known as
Lauren Diane Shuler
Lauren Shuler
Lauren Shuler-Donner
Lauren Diane Shuler Donner
Лорен Шулер Доннер
Lauren Shuler Donner
Biography
Lauren Diane Shuler Donner (born June 23, 1949) is an American film producer who specialises in mainstream youth and family-orientated entertainment. She owned The Donners' Company with her late husband, director Richard Donner. Her films have grossed about $5.5 billion worldwide, including major contributions from the X-Men film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lauren Shuler Donner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Deadpool & Wolverine
7.584
Overview:
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.Deadpool
7.6
Overview:
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.X-Men: Apocalypse
6.5
Overview:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.Deadpool 2
7.489
Overview:
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.527
Overview:
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.The Gifted
7.622
Overview:
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.Logan
7.82
Overview:
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.Constantine
7.1
Overview:
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.She's the Man
6.828
Overview:
Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.Legion
7.518
Overview:
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.Dark Phoenix
5.97
Overview:
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.The New Mutants
6.093
Overview:
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.Assassins
6.493
Overview:
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.Lethal Weapon 3
6.701
Overview:
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.You've Got Mail
6.69
Overview:
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.Free Willy
6.2
Overview:
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.Any Given Sunday
6.822
Overview:
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.Volcano
5.943
Overview:
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
5.852
Overview:
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.Ladyhawke
7.009
Overview:
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.Timeline
5.72
Overview:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.Pretty in Pink
6.722
Overview:
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.Hotel for Dogs
6.034
Overview:
Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But the kids have to do some quick thinking to keep the cops off their tails.Maverick
6.887
Overview:
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.Just Married
5.8
Overview:
Although Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney come from different worlds, they are both unexpectedly swept off their feet after their first meeting. They quickly fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. After their wedding, the happy couple sets off - with the highest of hopes and ideals about love and marriage - on what they expect will be the perfect honeymoon in Italy. Thanks to a relentless string of bad luck with one disaster after another, and an impromptu visit from Sarah's wealthy one-time ex-lover Peter Prentiss, the newlyweds experience the honeymoon from hell that tests the limits of their young love. Is it worth throwing away their love and marriage?The Secret Life of Bees
7.48
Overview:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.Radio Flyer
6.995
Overview:
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
5.9
Overview:
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.Semi-Pro
5.644
Overview:
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
6.92
Overview:
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.Acting
TBAProducers on Producing as Unknown
2024BRATS as Self
2019Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self
2019This Changes Everything as Self
2017Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics (1 Episode) as Self
2014Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
2013The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin as Self
2012John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast as Self
2011Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class as Unknown
2009Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins as Self
2009Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil as Self
2009A Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs' as Self
2003The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 as Unknown
2003The Secret Origin of X-Men as Herself
2003Evolution X - The Making of X-Men as Unknown
2001Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Herself
2000X-Men: The Mutant Watch as Self - Producer
1994Maverick as Mrs. D., Bathhouse Maid
1992Lethal Weapon 3 as Nurse
Production
TBAUntitled The Goonies Sequel ... Executive Producer
2024Deadpool & Wolverine ... Producer
2020The New Mutants ... Producer
2019Dark Phoenix ... Producer
2018Deadpool 2 ... Producer
2017The Gifted (29 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
2017Logan ... Producer
2017Legion (27 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
2016X-Men: Apocalypse ... Producer
2016Deadpool ... Producer
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past ... Producer
2013The Wolverine ... Producer
2011X-Men: First Class ... Producer
2009Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant ... Producer
2009Shorts ... Associate Producer
2009X-Men Origins: Wolverine ... Producer
2009Hotel for Dogs ... Producer
2008The Secret Life of Bees ... Producer
2008Semi-Pro ... Executive Producer
2006Unaccompanied Minors ... Producer
2006X-Men: The Last Stand ... Producer
2006She's the Man ... Producer
2005Constantine ... Producer
2003Timeline ... Producer
2003X2 ... Producer
2003Just Married ... Executive Producer
2001Out Cold ... Producer
2000X-Men ... Producer
1999Any Given Sunday ... Producer
1998You've Got Mail ... Producer
1998Bulworth ... Executive Producer
1997Free Willy 3: The Rescue ... Executive Producer
1997Volcano ... Executive Producer
1995Assassins ... Executive Producer
1995Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home ... Producer
1994Free Willy (21 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
1994The Favor ... Producer
1993Free Willy ... Producer
1993Dave ... Producer
1992Radio Flyer ... Producer
1989Three Fugitives ... Producer
1986Pretty in Pink ... Producer
1985St. Elmo's Fire ... Producer
1985Ladyhawke ... Producer
1983Mr. Mom ... Producer
1979Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill ... Producer
1978Thank God It's Friday ... Associate Producer