Isa Dick Hackett
{{short description|American producer and writer for Amazon (born 1967)}}
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| birth_name = Isolde Freya Dick
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|3|15}}
| birth_place = Greenbrae, California, U.S.
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| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Producer
- writer}}
| father = Philip K. Dick
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Isa Dick Hackett (born; Isolde Freya Dick; March 15, 1967) is an American producer and writer for Amazon who helped produce The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, and The Adjustment Bureau,{{Cite news|url=http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/man-in-the-high-castle-producer-details-harassment-by-exec.html|title=Man in the High Castle Producer Says Amazon Executive Harassed Her|last=Harris|first=Hunter|work=Vulture|access-date=2018-01-18|date=October 12, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/17/isa-dick-hackett-explains-how-philip-k-dicks-electric-dreams-became-reality|title=Isa Dick Hackett Explains How Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Became Reality|last=Goldman|first=Eric|date=2018-01-17|website=IGN|access-date=2018-01-18}} all of which are based on works by her father, Philip K. Dick.
Biography
Isa Dick Hackett was born Isolde Freya Dick in Greenbrae, California, to mother Nancy Hackett and father Philip K. Dick, the American science fiction writer.{{Cite news|url=https://ecelebrityfacts.com/isa-dick-hacket-real-name-parents|title=Lesbian producer Isa Dick Hackett|first=Sara|last=Simpson|work=eCelebrityFacts.com|access-date=2018-01-18|date=December 8, 2020}} Hackett has helped write or produce several film adaptations of her father's works. Hackett oversees Electric Shepherd Productions with her siblings.{{Cite news|url=https://www.earnthenecklace.com/isa-hackett-wiki-kids-age-parents/|title=Isa Hackett Wiki: Everything to Know about Roy Price's Accuser|date=2017-10-13|work=Earn The Necklace|access-date=2018-01-18}}
In the aftermath of revelations about sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement in 2017, Hackett told The Hollywood Reporter that Roy Price, the programming chief at Amazon, had sexually harassed her at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/business/media/amazon-roy-price-isa-dick-hackett.html|title=Amazon Studios Chief Suspended After Sexual Harassment Claim|last=Koblin|first=John|date=2017-10-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-18|last2=Wingfield|first2=Nick|issn=0362-4331}} Price was not legally charged, but Amazon suspended him after an internal investigation and he later resigned.{{Cite news|url=http://www.newser.com/story/250003/amazon-suspends-studio-chief-accused-of-sexual-harassment.html|title=Another Studio Chief Out After Sexual Harassment Claim|last=Quinn|first=Rob|date=2017-10-13|work=Newser|access-date=2018-01-18}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2357313|Isa Dick Hackett}}
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Category:Film producers from California
Category:People from Greenbrae, California
Category:American women writers
Category:American women film producers
Category:21st-century American women