Julie Yorn (born 1967)
is an American film producer.
Biography
Yorn was born Julie Silverman
July 7, 1996 and raised in a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
family,
the daughter of Dr.
Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf and Mel Silverman.
Her father was an artist and her mother was the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York.
Her stepfather, Dr.
Eric R. Wolf, is a distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She graduated from Tulane University and then went on to work as a senior vice president at the Los Angeles-based, talent-management and film-production company
Addis-Wechsler & Associates.
In 2009, she quit the Firm to sign a first look deal with 20th Century Fox.
She is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film ''
Hell or High Water'' (2016) that earned her an
Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with
Carla Hacken
Carla Hacken (born March 14, 1961) is an American film producer and former studio executive. She is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film '' Hell or High Water'' (2016), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Picture nominati ...
. She is president of production at
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
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.
Awards and nominations
* Nominated:
Academy Award for Best Picture - ''
Hell or High Water''
Personal life
In 1996, she married attorney
Kevin Yorn
Kevin Brett Yorn (born July 4, 1965) is an American entertainment attorney who co-founded Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm where he is managing partner.
Early life and education
Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA ...
in a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
ceremony in
Tarrytown, New York
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North ...
.
They later divorced in 2005.
References
External links
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1969 births
Living people
20th-century American Jews
American film producers
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
21st-century American Jews