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Rebecca Eaton OBE (born November 7, 1947) is an American television and film producer best known for introducing American audiences to British costume and countryside dramas as executive producer of the PBS ''Masterpiece'' series. In 2011 she was one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World".〔http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066494,00.html〕 ==Biography== Eaton was born in Boston and raised in Pasadena, California, her father a Caltech English literature professor and her mother, Katherine Emery, an actress both on Broadway (in Lillian Hellman's ''The Children's Hour'') and in film. Eaton recalls visiting New York every summer to see Broadway shows as well as spending her junior high school days lost in ''Jane Eyre''.〔The Paley Center for Media, ("Rebecca Eaton: Television Producer" )〕 Eaton attended Vassar, graduating in 1969 with a BA in English literature. Her senior thesis was on James Joyce's ''Dubliners''. In 1969-70 she was a production assistant for the BBC World Service in London. Returning to the U.S., she was in 1972 hired by WGBH in Boston, there producing ''Pantechnicon'' (a radio arts magazine) and the television programs ''Zoom'' and ''Enterprise''.〔 Eaton became the third executive producer of Masterpiece Theatre. Christopher Sarson was at the helm from its inception in 1971. Sarson had bought ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' from ITV. Eaton succeeded the series' second executive producer, Joan Wilson, in 1985. Under Eaton, Masterpiece extended its reach into feature film co-production for such films as Jane Austen's ''Persuasion'' and ''Mrs. Brown'' starring Dame Judi Dench.〔 By 2011 she had been executive producer of the show for more than 25 of its 40 years on the air.〔Gillian Anderson, ("Rebecca Eaton, TV Producer" ), Time Magazine, April 21, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rebecca Eaton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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