{{short description|American film producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Julie Yorn | image = | caption = | birth_name = Julie Silverman | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Movie producer | known_for = co-president of production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment | other_names = | status = | title = | family = Eric R. Wolf (stepfather)<br> Pete Yorn (brother-in-law) | spouse = Kevin Yorn | children = | education = B.A. Tulane University | parents = Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf<br> Mel Silverman | relatives = | credits = | URL = }}
'''Julie Yorn''' (born 1967)<ref name=JWeekly>{{Cite news|first=Nate |last=Bloom |author-link=Nate Bloom |title= The tribe goes to the Oscars |newspaper=J. The Jewish News of Northern California|date= February 13, 2017 |url=http://www.jweekly.com/2017/02/13/the-tribe-goes-to-the-oscars/ }}</ref> is an American film producer.
==Biography== Yorn was born Julie Silverman<ref name=NYTWedding>[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/07/style/weddings-julie-silverman-and-kevin-yorn.html New York Times: "WEDDINGS;Julie Silverman And Kevin Yorn"] July 7, 1996</ref> and raised in a Jewish family,<ref name=JWeekly /> the daughter of Dr. Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf and Mel Silverman.<ref name=NYTWedding /> Her father was an artist and her mother was the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York.<ref name=NYTWedding /> 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.<ref name=NYTWedding /> 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.<ref name=NYTWedding /> In 2009, she quit the Firm to sign a first look deal with 20th Century Fox.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fleming|first=Michael|date=2009-01-15|title=Yorns ink first-look deal at Fox|url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/features/yorns-ink-first-look-deal-at-fox-1117998648/|access-date=2020-12-06|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Merry|first1=Stephanie|title=Oscar nominations 2017: Complete list of nominees; 'La La Land's' 14 ties record|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/01/24/oscar-nominations-2017-complete-coverage/|access-date=25 January 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=24 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Oscar Nominations 2017: The Complete List - 89th Academy Awards |url=http://oscar.go.com/nominees |publisher=Oscars.com |date=January 24, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110203809/http://oscar.go.com/nominees |archive-date=January 10, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Oscar Nominations 2017: See the Full List|url= http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/oscar-nominations-2017-full-list|publisher =Vanity Fair|date=January 24, 2017|access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> She is president of production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.<ref>{{cite web|first=Rebecca|last= Ford|title=Carla Hacken Joins Sidney Kimmel Entertainment as President of Production|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carla-hacken-joins-sidney-kimmel-687403|publisher =Hollywood Reporter|date=October 3, 2014|access-date=February 20, 2017}}</ref>
==Awards and nominations== * Nominated: Academy Award for Best Picture - ''Hell or High Water''
==Personal life== In 1996, she married attorney Kevin Yorn in a Jewish ceremony in Tarrytown, New York.<ref name=NYTWedding /> They later divorced in 2005.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0798930}}
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