Jonathan Gray (born 24 August 1980 in Cannes, France) is a French-American film and TV producer, and a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of The Hideaway Entertainment, an independent film and TV production company based in

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Biography

Gray is the son of French-American Holocaust survivor and writer Martin Gray. He attended the Carnot high school in

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions I ...

, with a literature-focused curriculum, and then attended the

SKEMA Business School SKEMA Business School (School of Knowledge Economy and Management) is a French business school, devoted to higher education and research. It has the legal status of a non-profit association under the French "1901 law". It was founded in 2009 as a ...

in Sophia Antipolis. At 16 years old, he worked for

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to welcome stars in Cannes and organize their stay. At the age of 20, Jonathan Gray became the assistant of a real estate developer in Southern France. From 2003 to 2019, he founded and managed his own events company, JG Events, specialized in luxury private and corporate events. In 2005, he launched a real estate company specialized in high-end properties on the

Côte d'azur The French Riviera (known in French as the ; oc, Còsta d'Azur ; literal translation " Azure Coast") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend fro ...

. In 2007, the company merged with the

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-based real estate broker Beauchamp Estates, making Jonathan Gray co-owner of the company and its exclusive representative in France. He sold the Château Miraval to

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and Angelina Jolie, the Villa les Cèdres in

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (; oc, Sant Joan de Cap Ferrat; Italian: ''San Giovanni Capo Ferrato'') is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2017, it had a population of 1,573 ...

, and La Belle Époque in

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

. From 2005 to 2009, Jonathan Gray was also the founder and managing director of the French subsidiary of the high-end concierge service Quintessentially. In 2008, he founded First Idea International Ltd., a strategic and investment consultancy with a focus on developing post-oil economic solutions in the

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. In 2017, Gray launched the independent film production company The Hideaway Entertainment, marking the start of his career as a producer. With The Hideaway Entertainment, Jonathan Gray was involved in the production of the films ''

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'' (2018), '' Men in Black: International'' (2019), '' Bloodshot'' (2020), and ''

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'' (2021). In 2019, Jonathan Gray launched the company Intelligent Design Agency (iDeA) which develops "idea-first" technologies for large scale projects, including

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's futurist city Neom.

Filmography

References

External links

Jonathan Gray
at IMDb
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Jonathan 1980 births Living people French film producers American film producers American film production company founders American independent film production company founders American real estate businesspeople