Gaylen Ross

Gaylen Ross (born August 15, 1950) is an American director, writer, producer and actress, best known for playing Francine Parker in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead and also noted for directing the 2008 documentary Killing Kasztner. Ross was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she graduated from Broad Ripple High School in 1967. She studied at Monterey Peninsula College in California, and later received her BA from The New School for Social Research in Literature. She was managing editor of the poetry journal, Antaeus and Ecco Press from 1975 to 1977. Ross holds citizenship in the United States and Israel. In 2015, she was named to the Indianapolis Public School Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame.