Caroline Thompson
Original Screenplay, Story & Co-Adaptation
Caroline Thompson was born in 1956 in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a house full of books where she fell in love with horror novels and fantasy as well as children’s classics. Her suburban neighbourhood and her favourite novel, Frankenstein, later inspired her horror novel, First Born, and first produced screenplay, Edward Scissorhands.
Thompson continued to explore horror and fantasy in screenplays for The Addams Family, City of Ember, and Welcome To Marwen, and the stop-motion animation features, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. She played with children’s classics, as well, writing screen adaptations of The Secret Garden and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. She also took on the dual roles of screenwriter and director for Black Beauty, Buddy and Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.
In 2011, she was the first woman to receive the Austin Film Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter award. In recent years, she has run hard after her lifelong dream of becoming an oil painter.
Thompson lives near Santa Barbara, CA with her husband, film producer Steve Nicolaides, and their dogs, Tucci and Willow.