Who is Kathleen Kennedy?
KATHLEEN Kennedy has had an accomplished career in the entertainment industry.
The film producer serves as the president of Lucasfilm, an American production company.
Who is Kathleen Kennedy?
Kathleen Kennedy was born on June 5, 1953, in Berkeley, California.
The 70-year-old film producer has served as Lucasfilm's president since 2012.
In 1992, she started The Kennedy/Marshall Company with her husband Frank Marshall.
She co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment in 1981, along with Steven Spielberg and Marshall.
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Kennedy has earned many awards throughout her successful career, such as the Academy’s 2018 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and the Producers Guild of America Milestone Award.
What has Kathleen Kennedy produced for Lucasfilm?
Kennedy has produced a number of projects for Lucasfilm.
According to the company's website, some of these include:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
- The Mandalorian series (2019-present)
- The Book of Boba Fett (2021),
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
- Willow (2022)
- Andor (2022-present)
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
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In total, Kennedy has produced or executive produced over 70 feature films, "which have collectively garnered 120 Academy Award nominations and 25 wins."
Some of these movies include:
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- The Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- Gremlins (1984)
- The Goonies (1985)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Lincoln (2012)
- War Horse (2011)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Who is Kathleen Kennedy’s husband Frank Marshall?
Kennedy and Marshall got married in 1987.
Marshall, 76, is an accomplished director and film producer who was born on September 13, 1946, in Glendale, California.
He has produced many projects with Kennedy and has also directed a number of films, such as Arachnophobia (1990), Alive (1993), Congo (1995), Eight Below (2006), and The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020).
He also worked alongside his wife on the Indiana Jones films.
In June 2023, the couple spoke with GamesRadar about their memories with the film franchise as it comes to an end.
When asked why Indiana Jones has served as such a long-lasting icon, Kennedy said: "In an interesting way, I think it's the extension of the cowboy. That silhouette. There's a promise, an independence in that character, and instantly he feels heroic.
"It was brilliant that [Indiana Jones creator] George [Lucas] came up with the idea that he had a whip. That was such a unique concept, that he would have this whip. All of those things just contributes to this – he's very much a man's man, that's very appealing."
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Marshall added: "He's heroic, but he's not a superhero. And that's what people identify with; he makes mistakes, he's fallible, he gets hurt.
"But he's also very funny, and he can make light of things – but he's also curious, and he wants to go on these adventures to find things that belong in a museum."