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Kathleen Kennedy

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Biography

Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer who has been president of Lucasfilm since 2012. In 1981, Kennedy co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and her eventual husband Frank Marshall. Her first film as a producer was E.T. (1982). A decade later, again with Spielberg, she produced the Jurassic Park franchise, the first two of which became two of the top ten highest-grossing films of the 1990s. In 1992, she and Marshall founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company. In 2012, Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company. As Lucasfilm's president, Kennedy has overseen the development, production, and release of projects such as the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019), the Star Wars standalone films Rogue One (2016) and Solo (2018), as well as the fifth Indiana Jones film, The Dial of Destiny (2023). She has also produced various Star Wars series, including six live-action series for Disney+, The Mandalorian (2019–present), The Book of Boba Fett (2021), Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), Andor (2022–2025), Ahsoka (2023–present), and The Acolyte (2024). Kennedy has produced films which have earned over $11 billion worldwide, including five of the fifty highest-grossing movies in film history. As a producer, she has received eight Best Picture Academy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Kennedy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Producer

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Schindler's List

Executive Producer

Back to the Future

Executive Producer

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Adventures of Tintin

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Empire of the Sun

Appears in a KinoChain journey

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Loyalty Beyond the Last Breath

From the Alaskan wilds to the trenches of war, a journey through films where the bond between soldier and dog faces the ultimate test.

8 films

Girlhood Reclaimed

From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themse...

8 films

When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability

What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...

8 films

Wild Hearts: Feral Children and the Call of the Wild

From the forests of 18th-century France to the animated jungles of Mowgli, a journey through cinema's feral children and their quest for belonging.

7 films

Ghosts in the Machine

From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.

8 films

The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For

Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...

8 films

When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation

From Disney's pioneering blend to modern masterpieces, explore films that seamlessly merge reality and animation, celebrating the creative spark when two worlds...

8 films

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