Evelyn O'Neill is an American

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and

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producer. She is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film '' Lady Bird'', for which she was co-nominated for the

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at the

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. She is also a founding partner of Management 360 and the talent manager for

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, Salma Hayek,

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, and

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Career

O'Neill graduated cum laude from

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and went on to the Master's program in Film History, Theory and Criticism at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

, She started her career in the late 1980s as an assistant to Suzan Bymel, with whom she founded the agency '' Bymel O'Neill & Associates'' in 1994. In 2002, O'Neill and Bymel, together with Eric Kranzler,

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and

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founded the ''Management 360 talent and literary management company. In 2009,

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named her the 90 in their #100 Most Influential Women in the Entertainment Industry.'' In 2017, O'Neill produced '' Lady Bird'', with her Management 360 client and actress turned director

with Scott Rudin and

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. The film earned many nominations and awards including

Filmography

* 2017: '' Lady Bird'' (producer) * 2006: '' Faceless'' (TV Movie) (executive producer) * 2005: '' Trust the Man'' (executive producer) * 2000: ''Talk to Me'' (TV Series) (producer - 6 episodes) * 1998: ''

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'' (TV Series) (producer - 7 episodes)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:ONeill, Evelyn Living people American film producers American women film producers University of California, Los Angeles alumni Harvard University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women