Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955) is an American film and television producer, the founder of Valhalla Entertainment (formerly Pacific Western Productions), and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America. Her notable works include The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss(1989), Armageddon (1998), Mankiller (2017) (a documentary about Wilma Mankiller) and The Walking Dead (2010–2022).