---
name: "Leslie Dixon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leslie-dixon"
fi1m_id: "leslie-dixon"
imdb_id: "nm0228908"
tmdb_id: 11708
wikidata_id: "Q516252"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 August 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T02:05:49.137613+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."
---

# Leslie Dixon

## Identity

Leslie Dixon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leslie-dixon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leslie-dixon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0228908
- **TMDB ID:** 11708
- **Wikidata ID:** Q516252
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dixon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11708

Writer. Born 3 August 1970 in New York, New York, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 August 1970, New York, New York, U.S.
- **Active:** 1993–2014
- **Also known as:** Лесли Диксон
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 writing, 1 producing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (1), 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dixon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11708

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Mrs. Doubtfire*](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Leslie Dixon is an American screenwriter and film producer. She wrote the screenplay for *Outrageous Fortune* (1987) and co-wrote *Overboard* (1987). Her subsequent credits include the screenplay for *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993, with Randi Mayem Singer), *Look Who's Talking Now* (1993), *Pay It Forward* (2000), *Freaky Friday* (2003), *Just Like Heaven* (2005), *Hairspray* (2007) and *Limitless* (2011, which she also produced).

Dixon is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and painter Maynard Dixon. She is married to screenwriter and director Tom Ropelewski.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Hairspray* (2007), Fi1m 72, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/hairspray-2007.md)
- *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Gone Girl* (2014), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Overboard* (2018), Story, Screenplay
- *Limitless* (2015), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Gone Girl* (2014), Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-girl.md)
- *Limitless* (2011), Producer, Screenplay
- *The Heartbreak Kid* (2007), Screenplay
- *Hairspray* (2007), Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/hairspray-2007.md)
- *Just Like Heaven* (2005), Screenplay
- *Freaky Friday* (2003), Screenplay
- *Madame Doubtfire* (2001), Original Film Writer
- *Pay It Forward* (2000), Screenplay
- *The Next Best Thing* (2000), Producer
- *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1999), Screenplay
- *That Old Feeling* (1997), Writer, Producer
- *Mrs. Doubtfire* (1993), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-doubtfire.md)
- *Look Who's Talking Now!* (1993), Executive Producer, Writer
- *MadHouse* (1990), Producer
- *Loverboy* (1989), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Overboard* (1987), Screenplay
- *Outrageous Fortune* (1987), Writer
- *Small Parts*, Original Story

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