Julie Yorn (born 1967)[1] is an American film producer.
Biography
Yorn was born Julie Silverman[2] and raised in a Jewish family,[1] the daughter of Dr. Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf and Mel Silverman.[2] Her father was an artist and her mother was the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2] In 2009, she quit the Firm to sign a first look deal with 20th Century Fox.[3]