Jon Avnet

 ( 1949 Births ) 

Jonathan Avnet (born November 17, 1949) is an American director, writer and producer.

Avnet was born in Brooklyn, the son of Joan Bertha (née Grossman) and Lester Francis Avnet, a corporate executive with Avnet (a global distributor of IT & electronics) founded by his paternal grandfather, Charles Avnet. He has two siblings, Carole Avnet Rocherolle and Rosalind Avnet Lazarus. He attended Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, New York. Famous Great Neck Alumni from the 1960s , Great Neck School District. Accessed July 21, 2007. He entered the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, and he earned a B.A. degree in film and theater arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1971. He is Jewish.

Avnet addressed political issues with his fourth film Red Corner in 1997, a movie about the Chinese legal system, starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling. Because of Gere's presence and support for Tibet and the Dalai Lama, they could not film in China, and the settings had to be recreated in Southern California. Avnet, however, did film a few scenes in Beijing and also put in some footage of actual Chinese executions.

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Personal life Avnet has been married to the artist Barbara Brody since 1975. They have three children, Alexandra Avnet Costantino, Jacob Avnet, and Lily Avnet; and six grandchildren.

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Filmography

1983	Risky Business
1983	Deal of the Century
1987	Less than Zero
1990	Men Don't Leave
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes
1992	The Mighty Ducks
1993	The Three Musketeers
1994
1994	The War
1994	When a Man Loves a Woman
1995	Miami Rhapsody
1996	Up Close & Personal
1996
1997	Red Corner
1997	George of the Jungle
1999	Inspector Gadget
2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000	Steal This Movie
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2006	Land of the Blind
2007	88 Minutes
2008	Righteous Kill
2010	Black Swan
2017	Three Christs			"Three Christs" Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
2020	Four Good Days
2025	The Last Rodeo

Television

• Call to Glory (1984–1985)
• The Burning Bed (1984)
• Between Two Women (1986)
• (1995)
• Mama Flora's Family (1998)
• Uprising (2001)
• Boomtown (2002–2003)
• The Starter Wife (miniseries) (2007)
• Justified (2010–2015)
• Have a Little Faith (2011)
• Sneaky Pete (2018-2019)
• Manhunt (2020)
• (2023)

Broadway Plays

• Spamalot (2004)
• The Pillowman (2005)
• The History Boys (2006)
• The Seafarer (play) (2007)
• The Country Girl (1950 play) (2008)

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