- Born
- Birth nameSandra Ann King
- Nickname
- Mother Production
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Born Sandra Ann King in Los Angeles, California. Attended the Westlake School, graduating in 1969. She was a Coronet débutante and a member of the Chi Omega Fraternity. She attended UCLA College of Fine Arts, majoring in pictorial arts, and graduating in 1973. That same year, she worked on the Academy Award-winning animated film, Anti-Matter. Her first feature film as a script supervisor was John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976).
- IMDb mini biography by: SKC
- SpouseJohn Carpenter(December 1, 1990 - present)
- Known by her film crews as "Mother Production," has a gold-embossed sign on her desk, "No Whining".
- Currently at work on a documentary for the British Film Institute, "Howard Hawks, American Artist", with her husband, John Carpenter.
- Has lectured on film production at the University of Vienna (Austria) Film School, the American Film Institute, and California State University Long Beach. She was the first guest on the AOL Live Forum for "24 Hours in Cyberpace".
- Stepmother of Cody Carpenter.
- [About her favorite films she produced with her husband, John Carpenter]: "I love Starman because I met and fell in love with my husband. I love Big Trouble in Little China because it was a chance to do a completely outrageous fantasy. I love Vampires because I think it's a really rocking movie. I love Ghosts of Mars because we managed to make a 360-degree Martian landscape in the middle of the desert. I love They Live because politically it represented a certain statement from us."
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