[3] In June 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Savannah College of Art & Design.
[4] Blake began her career developing successful TV franchises for a variety of networks and production companies in the US and the UK, including the BBC1 series Beast.
[1] She produced The Hundred Foot Journey, a film starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, shot in France and India, and directed by Lasse Hallstrom with producing partners Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.
[15][16] Blake also developed feature films for Arnie Messer and Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures,[17] including the thriller Blood Relatives.
They live in Austin and have two daughters: Sophie, a web designer for GitHub and Lily, the CEO of The Double Wild Plant Company.