Janet Healy
Film producer in the United States
Janet Healy is an American film producer whose films include Illumination's Despicable Me animated series and other animated films by the studio.
Career
She worked with directors Stanley Kramer, Hal Ashby and Sam Peckinpah. Healy is a founder of the Visual Effects Society. She then joined George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic.
In 1995, she joined Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Healy is one of the producers of the Despicable Me franchise as well as other Illumination films including Sing (2016) and The Secret Life of Pets (2016). Beside that, she also produced Shark Tale (2004) for DreamWorks Animation.
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