Erica Huggins

Erica Huggins is president of Imagine Entertainment. Huggins joined Imagine in 2004 as senior VP of motion pictures. In 2006, she was promoted to EVP and, in 2010, to co-president of production. In 2013, Huggins was named president.

Huggins has worked with Oscar®-winning producer Brian Grazer on such films as the music documentaries Made in America, directed by Ron Howard, and Katy Perry: Part of Me, as well as Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio; Gus Van Sant's Restless, which starred Mia Wasikowska; and, most recently, Howard's Formula One racing drama Rush, which starred Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.

In addition to Get on Up, Huggins serveed as executive producer on Howard's  In the Heart of the Sea, for Warner Bros. Pictures, which was directed by Howard and stars Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Brendan Gleeson and Ben Whishaw. Additionally, she worked with Jason Katims on his award-winning NBC TV series Parenthood.

Before coming to Imagine, Huggins worked as an executive vice president at Interscope Communications and Radar Pictures. At Interscope, she produced the Oscar®-winning What Dreams May Come, which starred Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.; Boys, which starred Winona Ryder; and the critically acclaimed Gridlock'd, which starred the late Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth. While at Radar, her credits included Le Divorce, which starred Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts, and How to Deal, which starred Mandy Moore.

Prior to becoming a producer, Huggins worked as a film editor. Her editing credits include three films for John Waters: Hairspray, Cry-Baby and Serial Mom; and two for Academy Award®-winning director Michael Cimino: The Sicilian and Desperate Hours.

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