Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen Kennedy born June 5 1953 is an American film producer and current president of Lucasfilm In 1981 she cofounded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and husband Frank Marshall Her first film as a producer was ET the ExtraTerrestrial 1982 She subsequently produced the Jurassic Park franchise the first two of which became two of the top ten highestgrossing films of the 1990s In 1992 she cofounded The KennedyMarshall Company with her husband Frank Marshall On October 30 2012 she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over 4 billion She received the Irving G Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018 Overall Kennedy participated in the making of 60 films mostly as executive producer that garnered 8 Academy Award nominations and over 11 billion worldwide including three of the highestgrossing films in motion picture history Kennedy is second only to Spielberg in domestic box office receipts with over 7 billion as of January 2018