Ellen Letty Aronson (née Konigsberg;Hoffman, Barbara
"Woody and his sister"
''The New York Post'', October 15, 2011 born November 30, 1943) is an American film producer. She is the younger sister of writer and director

Woody Allen Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, accolade ...

Personal life

Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City, to Nettie (née Cherry) and Martin Königsberg, and was raised in

Midwood, Brooklyn Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, ...

, New York. Her older brother is writer and director

. Aronson comes from a Jewish family; her grandparents were from Lithuania and Austria. She was educated at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

and

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

. Aronson was married to Sidney Aronson, an elementary school principal in Brooklyn who died in 2002. They had three children together, Christopher, Erika, and Alexa.

Career

She has produced many of her brother Woody Allen's films including '' Bullets over Broadway'' (1994), ''

Mighty Aphrodite ''Mighty Aphrodite'' is a 1995 American comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, and F. Murray Abraham. The screenplay was vaguely inspired by the story of ' ...

'' (1995), ''

Deconstructing Harry ''Deconstructing Harry'' is a 1997 American black comedy Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is genera ...

'' (1997), ''

Celebrity Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group due to the attention given to them by mass media. The word is also used to refer to famous individuals. A person may attain celebrity status by having great w ...

'' (1998), '' The Curse of the Jade Scorpion'' (2001), ''

Anything Else ''Anything Else'' is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, produced by Letty Aronson, and starring Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, and Christina Ricci. The film premiered a ...

'' (2003), '' Melinda and Melinda'' (2004), '' Match Point'' (2005), ''

Scoop Scoop, Scoops or The Scoop may refer to: Artefacts * Scoop (machine part), a component of machinery to carry things * Scoop (tool), a shovel-like tool, particularly one deep and curved, used in digging * Scoop (theater), a type of wide area l ...

'' (2006), '' Cassandra's Dream'' (2007), ''

Vicky Cristina Barcelona ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' is a 2008 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film stars Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson in lead roles. The plot centers on two American women, V ...

'' (2008), '' Whatever Works'' (2009), '' You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger'' (2010), ''

Midnight in Paris ''Midnight in Paris'' is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a screenwriter and aspiring novelist, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationsh ...

'' (2011), '' To Rome with Love'' (2012), and ''

Blue Jasmine ''Blue Jasmine'' is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film tells the story of a rich Manhattan socialite (Cate Blanchett) who falls on hard times and has to move into her working-class sister's (Sally Hawk ...

'' (2013).

Filmography

As a producer

Awards and nominations

References

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* 1943 births Living people Film producers from New York City American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent Golden Globe Award–winning producers Businesspeople from Brooklyn American women film producers People from Midwood, Brooklyn 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesswomen 21st-century American businesspeople Brooklyn College alumni 21st-century American businesswomen {{US-film-producer-stub