Jacqueline Giroux

Jacqueline Giroux is a screenwriter, producer and director who also works in film financing. A scholarship took her to the New York American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and she performed in many Broadway and off Broadway plays. Her screen career began with the lead in The Cross and the Switchblade (1970), which she promoted by touring and selling advance tickets to groups such as the Kiwanis Clubs and the Masons, earning keys to several cities and awards. She appeared in fifteen features and several television series, including To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), directed by Billy Friedkin for MGM. She wrote and produced ten features and two Movies of the Week, and in 2000 wrote and directed Coo Coo Café, a media satire made at Millbrook Studios in New Brunswick, Canada that was nominated at the New York Film and Video Film Festival and invited to Sundance. She is a co-founder and director of Global Universal Film Group.