Lisa Henson

Known for ProductionBorn 1960-05-09 (age 66)Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Lisa Marie Henson (born May 9, 1960) is an American television and film producer involved in television shows such as Sid the Science Kid. She is the CEO of The Jim Henson Company, founded by her parents, Jim and Jane Henson. Henson was born in Westchester County, New York and attended Byrum Hill High School. She is the daughter and the oldest child of puppeteers Jane (née Nebel; 1934–2013) and Jim Henson(1936–1990), and she has four younger siblings: Cheryl (born 1961), Brian (born 1963), John(1965–2014), and Heather Henson (born 1970). Henson has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where she studied ancient Greek and folklore mythology. In 1982, while at Harvard, Henson was elected president of The Harvard Lampoon, the first woman to serve in this position. In comedy, she was known for her visual representation of humour and art parody. Starting in 1983, Henson worked at Warner Bros., where she was first an executive assistant. By 1991, she was promoted to executive vice president. In 1993, Henson was named president of worldwide production at Columbia Pictures. Before this, her work was on the production of movies such as Lethal Weapon and the Batman films. She has also served on the Harvard Board of Overseers. As of 2024, Henson is the CEO of The Jim Henson Company. In 2012, she joined other companies that sought to avoid connections with Chick-fil-A due to their opposition to gay marriage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Henson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

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Jim Henson's Memorial Service

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Jim Henson Idea Man

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

No, You Shut Up!

The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

The Haunted Swordsman

The Monk and the Gun

Harriet the Spy

The First Snow of Fraggle Rock

In Their Own Words: Jim Henson

Pajanimals

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

The Muppet Movie

The Portable Door

Run, Run

The Star

Dinosaur Train

MirrorMask

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip

High Crimes

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Sid the Science Kid

Zero Effect

Unstable Fables: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Happytime Murders

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare

Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby

Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow

The Kreutzer Sonata

Good Boy!

Five Children and It

Boxing Day

The Weight of Water

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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

Me and My Monsters

Wowsabout!

Late Night Liars

Muppet Man

Labyrinth 2

Third Shift Society

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