Biography
Lili Fini Zanuck (née Fini) is an American film producer and director. Born on 2 April 1954 in Leominster, Massachusetts, she began her career working at the Zanuck/Brown Company after moving to Los Angeles. She married producer Richard D. Zanuck in 1978; he died in 2012.
Zanuck received her first producing credit on Cocoon (1985). With her husband she formed The Zanuck Company in 1988; their first production was Driving Miss Daisy (1989), which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. She directed the feature Rush (1991) and an episode of the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
Her other producing credits include Cocoon: The Return (1988), Rich in Love (1992), Mulholland Falls (1996), True Crime (1999) and Reign of Fire (2002). She later directed the documentary Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017) and served as executive producer on Bessie (2015).
