Dawn Leslie Steel (August 19, 1946 – December 20, 1997) was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio.Steel, whose father had changed the family surname from "Spielberg" before her birth, was born in the Bronx, New York to Nat and Lillian (née Tarlo) Steel, both of Russian Jewish descent. She grew up in Manhattan and "in a crummy neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks" in Great Neck, New York, according to her autobiography. She had one sibling, a brother, Larry.She attended New York University but did not graduate. She became merchandising director for Penthouse magazine. In 1975, she founded her own company that produced novelty items such as designer logo toilet paper.
She had a daughter in March 1987 - Rebecca Steel Roven.
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Became Paramount's production chief in 1984. Became the movie industry's first female mogul in 1987, when she was named president of Columbia Pictures.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
City of Angels
1998
producer
Fallen
1998
producer
Angus
1995
producer
For Our Children: The Concert
1993
TV Movie documentary executive producer
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
producer
Cool Runnings
1993
producer
Honey I Blew Up the Kid
1992
producer
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Annual 1995 ShoWest Awards
1995
TV Special
Herself
Biography
1995
TV Series documentary
Herself
Hollywood Women
1993
TV Mini-Series documentary
Talking head / soundbites / Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 70th Annual Academy Awards
1998
TV Special
Herself (Memorial Tribute)
Making Angels
1998
Video documentary short
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1989
Crystal Award
Women in Film Crystal Awards
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1994
CableACE
CableACE Awards
Children's Programming Special - 6 and Younger
For Our Children: The Concert (1993)
Known for movies
City of Angels (1998) as Producer
Cool Runnings (1993) as Producer
Fallen (1998) as Producer
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) as Producer
$1.6 Million
