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| Born | Melissa Marie Mathison June 3, 1950 |
| Died | November 4, 2015 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Neuroendocrine cancer |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1979–2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Harrison Ford (m. 1983-2004, divorced) |
Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American movie and television screenwriter. Her final movie was Disney's The BFG (2016).
She was best known for writing the screenplays for the movies The Black Stallion (1979); E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama movie about the Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.
From 1983 to 2004, Mathison was married to Harrison Ford.
Melissa Mathison died of neuroendocrine cancer, a rare form of pancreatic cancer, on November 4, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. She was 65 years old.
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