Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger.
Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film Take Her, She's Mine on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism. Nora Ephron was briefly an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy. She later wrote, "It didn't upset me that he never hit on me. It upset me more that I didn't have the right clothing, if you want to know the truth."
She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She sometimes writes with her sister, Delia Ephron.
She has been married three times; first to writer Dan Greenburg, second to journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame, and currently to writer Nicholas Pileggi. When Bernstein left her for British politician Margaret Jay, Ephron was inspired to write the 1983 novel Heartburn about the events, which was made into a 1986 film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
