Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, Paramount Pictures
Pasadena, CA
Years of Service: 2024–2029

Natalie Rodriguez is a senior vice president of business affairs at Paramount Pictures. 

Previously, she served as legal counsel at Netflix and was with Warner Brothers Pictures for 15 years, serving as vice president and associate general counsel in the theatrical legal division, negotiating and drafting agreements related to the financing, development and production of theatrical films. At Warner, Rodriguez worked on films such as A Star is Born and Just Mercy. At Paramount, she recently negotiated deals for Mean Girls and Smile 2, which is slated for release in October. Early in her career she was an associate at Coudert Brothers, where she worked in independent film financing. 

At Bates, Rodriguez majored in East Asian studies, studied abroad in Japan, and was involved in Solidaridad Latina and the International Club. In her senior year, Rodriguez received the Alfred J. Wright Foreign Language award, given to the student with the most outstanding thesis in a foreign language. She went on to Stanford, where she earned a master’s degree in East Asian studies and then to George Washington University for her law degree. Rodriguez is a member of the Bates Alumni Council and has volunteered for Bates in a variety of capacities, including as a job sponsor for the Center for Purposeful Work. 

Rodriguez lives in Pasadena with her two children, Eva ’26, a double major in politics and Hispanic studies with a European studies minor, and her son, Ambrosio, a high school student.