Julie Yorn (born 1967) is an American film producer.

Biography

Yorn was born Julie Silverman
July 7, 1996 and raised in a

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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

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. She is president of production at

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Awards and nominations

* Nominated: Academy Award for Best Picture - '' Hell or High Water''

Personal life

In 1996, she married attorney

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in a

ceremony in

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. They later divorced in 2005.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yorn, Julie 1969 births Living people 20th-century American Jews American film producers American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent 21st-century American Jews