Background
Wallack was born in Wayzata, Minnesota, a small town outside Minneapolis.
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Melisa Wallack
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She attended Skidmore College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in business.
Career
She was one of six children. When the company expanded to the West Coast in 1995, Wallack moved to Los Angeles and, after "meeting a lot of writers", decided to become a screenwriter herself. She partnered with Craig Borten to write the screenplay for Dallas Buyers Club, which was based on the true story of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome activist Ron Woodruff.
Although Wallack and Borten sold the script in the 1990s, the film did not enter production for several years and was released in 2013, almost 20 years after it had been written.
After selling the script for Dallas Buyers Club, Wallack was named one of Variety magazine"s "10 screenwriters to watch" in 2005. She created the story for the 2012 film Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale starring Julia Roberts.
Wallack"s future projects include the screenplay of Emily the Strange and a rewrite of The Last Witch Hunter.
