Julie Yorn

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Julie Yorn
Born
Julie Silverman

1967 (age 5556)
EducationB.A. Tulane University
OccupationMovie producer
Known forco-president of production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Spouse Kevin Yorn
Parent(s) Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf
Mel Silverman
Family Eric R. Wolf (stepfather)
Pete Yorn (brother-in-law)

Julie Yorn (born 1967) [1] is an American film producer.

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Biography

Yorn was born Julie Silverman [2] and raised in a Jewish family, [1] the daughter of Dr. Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf and Mel Silverman. [2] Her father was an artist and her mother was the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York. [2] 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. [2] 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. [2] In 2009, she quit the Firm to sign a first look deal with 20th Century Fox. [3]

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 Carla Hacken. [4] [5] [6] She is president of production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. [7]

Awards and nominations

Personal life

In 1996, she married attorney Kevin Yorn in a Jewish ceremony in Tarrytown, New York. [2] They later divorced in 2005.

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