Gale Anne Hurd is an American film producer and screenwriter who has an estimated net worth of $50 million.

Hurd began her career as a film producer when she joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to Roger Corman, the company president.

In 1982, she founded her own production company, Pacific Western Productions. She produced several box-office films, such as The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss.

In 1998, she received the Women in Film Crystal Award. She produced the 2010 AMC drama series The Walking Dead.

In 2003, she was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology at Telluride, Colorado.

She was elected governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2011. In 2012, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2013, she was awarded the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award from the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City.

Hurd was born on October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and Communications in 1977. She is married to screenwriter/director Jonathan Hensleigh, and has a daughter from her previous marriage with director Brian De Palma.