Jeffrey Katzenberg
American film producer and media proprietor (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənˌbɜːrɡ/; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor. He was the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. After departing Disney, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994,[lower-alpha 1] where he served as the company's CEO and producer of the Oscar winning film American Beauty and many of its animated franchises including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in 2017,[1] which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform which lost US$1.35 billion in seven months.
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| Born | (1950-12-21) December 21, 1950 (age 73) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | New York University (dropped out) |
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| Years active | 1979–present |
| Organization | WndrCo |
| Notable work | Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Little Mermaid Beauty and the Beast Aladdin The Lion King American Beauty The Prince of Egypt Shrek Kung Fu Panda How to Train Your Dragon |
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| Political party | Democratic |
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Marilyn Siegel (m. 1975) |
| Children | 2 |
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Katzenberg has also been involved in politics. With his active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers".[2] He is a campaign co-chair of Joe Biden's re-election campaign.[3]