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1956(?)—

Entertainment executive

Chase, Debra Martin, photograph.

Film producer Debra Martin Chase is one of just a handful of minority women who wield power among the back offices at the major Hollywood studios.

Chase's job entails overseeing the production of new movies on their way to the multiplex, and she scored her first genuine hit in 2001 with The Princess Diaries. This former corporate attorney had always dreamed of being a Hollywood player, she recalled in a 1997 Essence interview. "I'm the kid who was in the movie theater every Saturday," she told journalist Audrey Edwards.

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"I've been a movie fanatic since I was a child, and my images of the world were shaped by what I saw on the screen. I want to do my part to see that Blacks are not only represented in film but also enhance it."

Born in the mid-1950s, Chase hails from Illinois, but moved around with her family during her youth. They lived in the Northeast as well as in P