Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis (born August 30, 1965) is an American screenwriter and an executive producer. She has written scripts for Alexander (2004), Night Watch (2006 in U.S.), Pathfinder (2007) and Shutter Island (2010). She also served as an executive producer for the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman. Kalogridis and her writing partner Patrick Lussier wrote the screenplay for the fifth film in the Terminator series, Terminator Genisys, for Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United and was involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

Early life

Kalogridis was born in Winter Haven, Florida. She is a graduate of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina and University of Texas at Austin and attended UCLA's prestigious film school. She is of Greek descent; her grandparents emigrated from Kalymnos in the early 20th century.

Filmography

Other writing roles

Laeta

Laeta was the second Empress consort of Gratian of the Western Roman Empire.

Family

The only relation of Laeta mentioned by Zosimus was her mother Pissamena.

Empress

Gratian was first married to Flavia Maxima Constantia, who died at only twenty-one. The Chronicon Paschale dates the arrival of Constantia's remains in Constantinople to 31 August 383. She must have died earlier in the same year but the exact date and cause of her death are unknown. As Gratian was himself assassinated on 25 August 383, Laeta is assumed to have married him in the short period between the death of Constantia and his death.

On his account of the first siege of Rome by Alaric I, King of the Visigoths (dated to 408), Zosimus mentions that the city faced a famine. Zosimus records that "Laeta the wife of the late emperor Gratian, and her mother Pissamena, supplied great numbers with food for some time. For since they were allowed from the treasury the provisions of an imperial table, through the generosity of Theodosius, who had conferred on then, that privilege, many received the bounty of these two ladies, and obtained from their house what preserved them from famine".