Lilly Burns | |
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Education | Columbia University (BA) |
Occupation(s) | television producer, executive |
Years active | 2010 – present |
Spouse | Tony Hernandez (m. 2015) |
Children | 2 |
Parent |
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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]
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]
Year | Title | Notes |
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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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