Jean Higgins is an American television and film producer. She has worked on the series ''
Lost'' and ''
CSI: Miami''. She won an
Emmy Award for outstanding drama series at the
September 2005 ceremony for her work on the
first season of ''Lost''. She also won a
Producers Guild of America Award
The Producers Guild of America Awards were originally established in 1990 by the Producers Guild of America as the Golden Laurel Awards, created by PGA Treasurer Joel Freeman with the support of Guild President Leonard Stern, in order to honor ...
for television producer of the year in episodic for the first season.
Career
She began her career as a producer working in feature films as a line producer and associate producer. Her first film was ''
Movers & Shakers'' in 1985. She was a producer for the 1999 film ''
Arlington Road
''Arlington Road'' is a 1999 drama film directed by Mark Pellington and starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis. The film tells the story of a widowed George Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbors ar ...
''.
She became a line producer for the first season of ''
CSI: Miami'' in 2002. She left the series at the end of the first season in 2003.
She joined the crew of ''
Lost'' as a co-producer on the pilot episode in 2004.
She returned as a co-producer for the
first season and was promoted to line producer mid-way through the season.
Higgins and the producers won an
Emmy Award for outstanding drama series at the
September 2005 ceremony and a
Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award for television producer of the year in episodic for their work on the first season. She returned as a line producer for the
second season in 2005.
Higgins and the producers were nominated for the PGA award for television producer of the year for the second season but did not win. She was promoted to co-executive producer for the
third season.
She remained a co-executive producer for the
fourth season.
The producers were nominated for both the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series at the
September 2008 ceremony and the PGA award for television producer of the year for their work on the fourth season. Higgins remained a co-executive producer for the
fifth season and was again nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series at the
September 2009 ceremony and the PGA award for television producer of the year. She was promoted to executive producer for the series
sixth and final season.
In 2012 she was Producer for
Last Resort.
References
External links
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Living people
American television producers
American women television producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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