Karen Leigh Hopkins

Writer, known for Stepmom, The Running Man, Because I Said So

Karen Leigh Hopkins (also Karen Lee Hopkins) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress born in Sandusky, Ohio. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting but pivoted to writing after her scenes were cut from The Breakfast Club (1985) and Three Amigos. Her first screenplay, The Kindness of Strangers,…