Lilly Burns

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Lilly Burns
Education Columbia University (BA)
Occupation(s)television producer, executive
Years active2010 – present
Spouse
Tony Hernandez
(m. 2015)
Children2
Parent
Relatives Ric Burns (uncle)
Sarah Burns (sister)
Awards The Peabody Awards (2014)

Lilly Burns is an American television producer who co-founded Jax Media. In January 2022, she was named president of Imagine Entertainment. [1]

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Biography

Burns's father is the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. [2] [3] Her uncle, Ric Burns, and sister, Sarah Burns, are also documentary filmmakers. [4] [5] She graduated from Columbia University in 2009. [6]

She co-founded Jax Media with Tony Hernandez and John Skidmore in 2011. [7] She won a Peabody Award in 2014 for producing Inside Amy Schumer . [8]

As executive producer, she was nominated for six Emmy Awards for her work on Hack Into Broad City (2014), A Very Murray Christmas (2015), Russian Doll (2019), and Emily in Paris (2020). [9] [10] She was also nominated for two Gotham Awards for her work on Search Party and Russian Doll. [11] [12]

She married Tony Hernandez in 2015. [13] The couple and their two children live in Boerum Hill. [14]

Filmography

YearTitleNotes
2015 A Very Murray Christmas producer
2017 The Rundown with Robin Thede executive producer
2019 Russian Doll executive producer
2016–2019 Broad City executive producer; director, one episode
2019 Living with Yourself producer
2019 Florida Girls executive producer
2019 First Wives Club executive producer
2019 Nikki Fre$h executive producer
2020 Search Party executive producer; director, one episode
2021 My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman executive producer
2015–2021 Younger producer
2019–2021 Desus & Mero executive producer
2020–present Emily in Paris executive producer
2022 The Pentaverate executive producer
2022–present Uncoupled executive producer

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