American entertainment executive (born 1958)
Jeremy Zimmer
Zimmer in 2023
Born (1958-04-17 ) April 17, 1958 (age 66) Employer
United Talent Agency Title
CEO of United Talent Agency Spouses
Marisa Lynn Miller
(
m. 2004)
Children 4 Parents Relatives
Dore Schary (grandfather)
Jeremy Zimmer (born April 17, 1958) is an American entertainment industry executive who co-founded and is the
chief executive officer of
United Talent Agency (UTA).
Early life and education
Zimmer is the son of novelist
Jill Schary Robinson and stockbroker Jon Zimmer,
[1] and the grandson of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio chief
Dore Schary .
[2]
[3] His family was
Jewish .
[4] He was raised on the
West Coast of the United States , but relocated during his senior year of high school so Robinson could focus on her career.
[5] Zimmer attended, but did not graduate from,
Boston University .
[6]
Career
In 1979, at the age of 19, Zimmer left college to work in the
William Morris Agency mailroom.
[5]
[2]
[7] After transferring to Los Angeles,
[5] he joined
ICM Partners in 1984.
[6] There, Zimmer became a
talent agent , working on films such as
Die Hard (1988),
The Fisher King (1991), and
In the Line of Fire (1993).
[5] He later ran the agency's Motion Picture Literary and Motion Picture Packaging divisions.
[6] In 1989, Zimmer left ICM for Bauer/Benedek Agency, where he became a partner.
[5]
[6] In 1991, the firm combined with Leading Artists Agency to form
United Talent Agency (UTA).
[5]
[6]
[8]
Zimmer headed UTA's literary department from 1997–2006.
[9]
[10]
[11] He has been credited with creating the agency's branding, licensing, and endorsements division, as well as UTA's agent training program.
[6] Zimmer was named the agency's
chief executive officer in 2012.
[6]
[12] Throughout his career as an agent, Zimmer has represented
Mariah Carey ,
Bryan Cranston ,
DJ Khaled ,
Chelsea Handler ,
Kevin Hart ,
Anthony Hopkins ,
Marc Lawrence ,
Brian Robbins ,
[5]
[13]
M. Night Shyamalan ,
[14]
[15] and
YG .
[6]
Schary and Zimmer ranked number eight in
Vanity Fair 's 2017 list of the "25 Most Important Families in Hollywood History".
[2] Zimmer, along with United Talent Agency Managing Directors
David Kramer and
Jay Sures , ranked number 33 on
The Hollywood Reporter 's 2017 list of the 100 "most powerful people in entertainment".
[16]
[17]
Personal life
Zimmer has been married twice. In 2004, Zimmer married his second wife, Marisa Lynn Miller, in a civil ceremony in
Brentwood, California .
[18] Her father co-founded the
Miller's Outpost retail chain of stores.
[19] He has four children.
[5]
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"Jill Schary and Jon Zimmer get married 1956" .
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ISSN
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"Unbreakable Spirit After an acrimonious split from longtime producers Disney, the quirky director whose four movies have made a collective $2 billion at the box office, looks all set to bounce back with a new thriller woven from a bedtime story he told his children" .
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^ Shanley, Patrick (July 5, 2017).
"Hollywood Power Players Get Candid About Trump" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
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"WEDDINGS; Marisa Miller, Jeremy Zimmer" .
The New York Times . January 25, 2004.
^ Chang, Andrea (October 16, 2010).
"David D. Miller dies at 86; founder of the Miller's Outpost retail chain" .
The Los Angeles Times .
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