Biography
Martha De Laurentiis (née Schumacher) was an American film and television producer. Credited as Martha Schumacher until 1995, she began working in production accounting and became a producer on Stephen King adaptations including Firestarter (1984). In 1980 she co-founded the Dino De Laurentiis Company with producer Dino De Laurentiis, whom she married in 1990; the couple collaborated on numerous films and oversaw the construction of film studios in North Carolina, Australia and Morocco.
De Laurentiis produced Breakdown (1997), U-571 (2000), Hannibal (2001), Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007). She served as executive producer on the NBC series Hannibal (2013–2015) and later films including Arctic (2018). She died on 4 December 2021.
