Born Shelly Lee Duhl, Lansing was raised Jewish in Chicago. Her mother fled from Nazi Germany in 1937 at the age of seventeen. Lansing is a former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when she was the president of 20th Century Fox, she was the first woman to head a Hollywood movie studio. In 1996, she became the first woman to be named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers, and she was the first female studio head to recieve a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America's Ladies Home Journal, and The Hollywood Reporter named her fourth on its power 100 list in 2003.
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