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Kathleen Kennedy producer
Born: 1953
One of the most powerful women in Hollywood, Kathleen Kennedy started her big-screen career in 1979 as production assistant on Steven Spielberg's 1941. She soon moved up to full producer for E.T. (1982) and executive producer for Gremlins (1984). In 1984 she cofounded Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg and husband Frank Marshall, producing such colossal hits as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), Schindler's List (1993), and the Jurassic Park series (1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005). In 1992 she and Marshall founded their own Kennedy/Marshall Company, issuing lavish films such as Congo (1995), Signs (2002), and Seabiscuit (2003). 2005 had the Steven Spielberg version of War of the Worlds and for 2006–07 she's slated to produce Jurassic Park IV.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Kathleen Kennedy from Infoplease:
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - links to articles about the kennedy family
- Roving Mars - Starring Paul Newman, Stephen Squyres, Rob Manning, Charles Elachi, Wayne Lee
- Snow Falling on Cedars - Starring Youki Kudoh, Ethan Hawke, Rick Yune, Anthony Harrison, Max Von Sydow
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
- Jurassic Park - Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck
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