Michelle Manning

Michelle Manning

Known For
Production

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Known For
Production

Biography

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.

Michelle Manning's LGBTQ+ Titles

Jenny's Wedding
Jenny's Wedding
Producer

Directing (2)

1986
Blue City • Director
• Director
1984
Miami Vice • Director (2 episodes)
• Director (2 episodes)

Production (9)

2020
Come Away • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2019
The Dirt • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2017
Andi Mack • Executive Producer (12 episodes)
• Executive Producer (12 episodes)
2016
Adventures in Babysitting • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2015
Jenny's Wedding • Producer
• Producer
2013
Last I Heard • Co-Executive Producer
• Co-Executive Producer
2008
The Eye • Producer
• Producer
1985
The Breakfast Club • Co-Producer
• Co-Producer
1984
Sixteen Candles • Associate Producer
• Associate Producer

Camera (1)

1999
Payback • Assistant Camera
• Assistant Camera