Francine LeFrak is an award-winning theatrical and television producer, a successful entrepreneur and a distinguished philanthropist . She is the President of LeFrak Productions, The Whole Picture Company Ltd. and LeFrak Access.

Education:
BA, Finch College

Personal:
Married to Rick Friedberg
Daughter of Sam LeFrak
Sister of Richard LeFrak
Sister-in-law of Karen LeFrak

Background:
Ms. LeFrak was Producer of the HBO Docudrama “Shot Through The Heart, 1998 (Peabody Award); of the HBO film “In Hitler's Shadow,” 1995; Co-Producer: “Mi Vida Loca,” 1994; Co-Producer: “Miss Rose White,” 1992 (4 Emmy awards, 10 Emmy nominations, The Humanitas prize); Producer: “Blood Brothers: The Joey Dipaolo Story,” 1992 (Cable ACE award); and Producer: “Prison Stories: Women on the Inside,” 1990 (Ciné Golden Eagle award).

Ms. LeFrak's film and television productions have earned The Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Foreign Policy Association Award, a Cable ACE Award, the Humanitas Prize from the Catholic Church, six Ciné Golden Eagle Awards, three Golden Globe nominations, a Banff Television Festival Rockie Award, and a Gemini Award. Her films have been screened at major international film festivals including Cannes, London, Munich, Milan and Sundance.

Ms. LeFrak has produced many successful plays and musicals including Crimes of the Heart, Nine, My One and Only, Noises Off, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Leader of the Pack, and They're Playing Our Song, among others. These productions received critical acclaim and numerous awards including 15 Tony Awards, 41 Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Laurence Olivier SWET Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Ms. LeFrak's professional affiliations include active participation as a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; a member - appointed by Governor Pataki - of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's Arts, Tourism and Education Advisory Council to redevelop the World Trade Center site; an Honorary Deputy Commissioner for the Fire Department of the City of New York; and a member of, the Steering Committee Board for the “She Made It” initiative of Museum of Television & Radio.

Director, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Board member, National Museum of American History
Board Member, The American Friends of Versailles Foundation
Member, Contemporary Art Council, Museum of Modern Art
Member, President's Council, Whitney Museum
Member, Guggenheim Museum’s Patrons Circle
Member, Women's Board of the Kennedy School at Harvard University
Member, Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World

Recipient, Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Manhattanville College
Recipient, 2002 Leading Woman Entrepreneur Award
Recipient, 2003 Human Spirit Award from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
Recipient, Women Together Award from the United Nations
Recipient, 2007 Artemis Award from the European American Women's Council