Evelyn O'Neill

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Evelyn O'Neill
Alma mater Harvard University
University of California, Los Angeles.
Occupation(s)Talent manager and producer
Years active1990 - present

Evelyn O'Neill is an American talent manager and film producer. She is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film Lady Bird , for which she was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. [1] She is also a founding partner of Management 360 and the talent manager for Julianne Moore, Chadwick Boseman, Salma Hayek, Daniel Kaluuya, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Greta Gerwig.

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Career

O'Neill graduated cum laude from Harvard University and went on to the Master's program in Film History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, Los Angeles, [2] She started her career in the late 1980s as an assistant to Suzan Bymel, with whom she founded the agency Bymel O'Neill & Associates in 1994. [3]

In 2002, O'Neill and Bymel, together with Eric Kranzler, David Seltzer, Guymon Casady and Daniel Rappaport founded the Management 360 talent and literary management company. [4] In 2009, The Hollywood Reporter named her the 90 in their #100 Most Influential Women in the Entertainment Industry. [5]

In 2017, O'Neill produced Lady Bird , with her Management 360 client and actress turned director Greta Gerwig with Scott Rudin and Eli Bush. [6] The film earned many nominations and awards including Academy Award for Best Picture [7]

Filmography

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