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name: "Hilary Henkin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hilary-henkin"
fi1m_id: "hilary-henkin"
imdb_id: "nm0377088"
tmdb_id: 8251
wikidata_id: "Q511373"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 November 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:17:48.096064+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hilary Henkin

## Identity

Hilary Henkin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hilary-henkin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hilary-henkin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0377088
- **TMDB ID:** 8251
- **Wikidata ID:** Q511373
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Henkin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511373, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377088/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8251

Writer. Born 19 November 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 November 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Henkin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511373, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377088/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8251

## Biography

Hilary Henkin is an American screenwriter and producer. She was born on 19 November 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and New York City. She studied at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Henkin received shared screenplay credit, alongside David Mamet, for the 1997 film *Wag the Dog*, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Her other screenwriting credits include *Road House* (1989), *Romeo Is Bleeding* (1993), *Fatal Beauty* (1987) and *Flowers in the Attic* (1987). She also produced *Romeo Is Bleeding*.

She has additional writing credits on *Road House* (2024) and earlier films such as *Headin' for Broadway* (1980).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wag the Dog* (1997), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/wag-the-dog.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Road House* (2024), Original Film Writer
- *Wag the Dog* (1997), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/wag-the-dog.md)
- *Romeo Is Bleeding* (1993), Screenplay, Producer
- *Road House* (1989), Screenplay
- *Fatal Beauty* (1987), Screenplay
- *Blue Heaven* (1985), Writer
- *Headin' for Broadway* (1980), Writer
- *Road House 2*, Original Film Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1998: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Wag the Dog*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1990: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Road House*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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