She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and had an early stage stint at the start of the 70s working with her sisters, director Caroline and playwright Elisabeth.
The 2016 fellows are director Lyric R. Cabral ("(T ERROR"), producer Jessica Devaney ("Speed Sisters"), director-producer Grace Lee ("American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs"), director Jennifer Phang ("Advantageous"), director Pamela Romanowsky ("The Adderall Diaries"), and myself, Gabrielle Nadig.
I don't know of any other twin sister film directors.
A third brother, Bill Watson, three years younger than his sister, is director of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy at Edison State College.
During the filming of "Salaam Bombay!," the child actors referred to her variously as Tough Sister, Danger Director, Atom Bomb, and Whirlwind.
"He has one of the biggest hearts of anyone I've ever known," said Sister Donna Franklin, director of Catholic Charities for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg.
From the get go, politics was part of my blood, as well as that of my brother and sister (film director Rachel Perkins).
"They deserve coal in their stocking, not money for lethal gift certificates," said Sister Diane Carollo, director of the Office for Pro-Life Ministry for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Mr. Zaks, the "Sister Act" director, said that years ago he flew largely under the radar as a show doctor; last season on "The Addams Family," he was billed as creative consultant.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time, we've had good cooperation," said Sister Joan Curtin, director of the catechism programs for public school students at the Office of Catechetics of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
