Lauren Selig is an American film producer, businesswoman, writer and philanthropist. She is co-founder of Shake and Bake Productions, VALIS Virtual Reality and Tangled Little Dragon.
Selig was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of property developer Martin Selig. Her mother is Andrea (née Fain).
During elementary school and high school Selig attended the private Lakeside School and Phillips Exeter Academy and went on to her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University where she earned a BS in International Relations. She studied for a year at the London School of Economics while working at Variety. Selig then went on to the University of Washington and Northwestern University where she earned a JD-MBA.
After writing for Variety magazine, Selig worked as story editor in 1997 at DreamWorks for producer Mark Johnson. In 2000 she practiced international licensing for music company Playnetworks.
From 2002, Selig worked at Microsoft in Platforms Business Development. She began working in the family business, and from 2003 to 2012 Selig was Director of Development at her family's company, Martin Selig Real Estate.
Selig co-founded Shake and Bake Productions. Her recent TV series include Wheel of Time and movies include the Elton John biopic Rocketman and the Sam Raimi thriller Crawl. Selig was executive producer of Hacksaw Ridge, Lone Survivor, Everest, American Made, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and I Am Michael, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. That year she was named as one of Variety magazine's "producers to watch".
In 2017, Hacksaw Ridge, executive-produced by Selig, received six Oscar nominations.
She is a producer on the last Stanley Kubrick script The Downslope, the sci-fi film The Diamond Age and the Amazon series Wheel of Time.
In addition to her work in film and television she advises companies on their investments into the United States and is a partner at the virtual reality company V.A.L.I.S. which won an Emmy for its work on Capturing Everest. VALIS produced the TIME recreation of Martin Luther King.
Selig is an early investor in several companies including Galaxy Interactive, A16z, Vaxxinity,
Selig lives in Los Angeles. Her husband Kyril Faenov, General Manager of the SQL Test Group at Microsoft Corporation, died by suicide in 2012.