Frances Walsh, MNZM, (born 1959), is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film producer and musician. She has been the partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson since 1987. They have two children, Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson. Fran has contributed to all of Jackson's films since they met at the end of Bad Taste.
Mother of Katie Jackson (I) & Billy Jackson (III).
She declined to be interviewed on the Lord of the Rings DVDs because she wishes to remain private. There are no clips or pictures of her whatsoever on the DVD either, except for a brief appearance with Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens as they accept the Oscar during the 2004 Awards. However, she does contribute an audio commentary.
Provided the base sound that the Nazgul scream was created from. She was sick at the time, and to provide additional motivation one of the sound techs told her to "scream like peter just bought the rights to the Silmarillion" (the Silmarillion being another Tolkien story, covering the entire history of middle earth back to its creation and beyond).
In The Fellowship of the Ring, the portraits on the wall over the fireplace at Bag End, representing Bilbo's parents, are actually portraits of Frances and Peter Jackson (without the beard).
Played in a punk rock band in Wellington during the 80's called The Wallsockets.
