Wendy Finerman is an American film producer of nearly a dozen feature films.

Biography

Finerman was born to a

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family and raised in Beverly Hills, California. Her sister, Karen Finerman, is a hedgefund owner/trader in New York City and appears on CNBC's Fast Money. Finerman was one of three producers who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for '' Forrest Gump'' in 1994 and a BAFTA Award for '' Fairy Tale'' in 1998. She has also produced such popular films as '' The Fan'', '' Stepmom'', ''

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'', and '' The Devil Wears Prada''. Finerman was formerly married to producer

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and now is married to David Peterson. The mother of four children, she is a graduate of the

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at the

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and runs her own company, Wendy Finerman Productions.

Filmography

''In the films listed she was producer unless otherwise noted.''

Film

Television

References

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* Living people American film producers 20th-century American Jews Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award Golden Globe Award-winning producers American women film producers 1960 births 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Jewish American film producers {{US-film-producer-stub