Melissa Jo Peltier
American film producer
Melissa Jo Peltier is a New York-based American producer and author. She produced, wrote and directed the 1994 A&E documentary mini-series Titanic: Death of a Dream and Titanic: The Legend Lives On, the show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan.2
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Born 2000.1
About
She has also co-authored five books with Millan on the subject of raising and training dogs. In 2013, she published her first novel, entitled Reality Boulevard.
Peltier has won two News & Documentary Emmy awards and received the Humanitas Prize in 1993 for the documentary Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse.
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Companies
- MPH Entertainment, Inc.Founder12
Early life and education
- Date not recordedPomona College3
Peltier was born and raised in New England, graduating cum laude from Pomona College in Claremont.
She directed and co-wrote the primetime documentary special, Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, released in 1992. The documentary earned her a Humanitas Prize. Later, she directed and wrote the Breaking the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse, which won a Peabody Award in 1995. In 1994, she was producer, director and writer of A&E’s four-hour miseries, Titanic: Death of a Dream and Titanic: The Legend Lives On. Peltier received the News and Documentary Emmy Award for this documentary for outstanding documentary writing.
In 1996, Peltier co-founded MPH Entertainment with two other business partners. She executive-produced the TV show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan (2004-2012). She also wrote and directed multiple episodes for the series.
In 2010, she produced the movie White Irish Drinkers, which was directed by her husband.
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Career
Occupation: writer, film producer.6
- Date not recordedFounded American Dignity PAC4
- Date not recordedFounded MPH Entertainment, Inc.5
Personal life
Peltier is married to John Gray, a screenwriter, director and producer.
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Awards
- 1993Humanitas Prize9
Links
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- 13Wikimedia CommonsMelissa Jo Peltier photo by Muhammad Ali Khalid, CC BY-SA 3.0