Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Rachael Leigh Cook Recalls Meeting With Harvey Weinstein
justjared.comRachael Leigh Cook is reflecting on her experience in the industry. The 40-year-old She’s All That star opened up in a feature for Variety. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of She’s All That was executive produced by Harvey Weinstein.
Although she does not remember his presence on the set, she recalls having one or two meetings with the former head of Miramax, who is now serving a 23-year-prison sentence for rape and sexual abuse.
She said that at the meetings, she always accompanied by her female then-manager, who she believes was protecting her from Harvey. “Absolutely, with every fiber of my being I know that.
He was someone who people spoke about in a different tone, but it was years before I knew why,” she explained. Rachael also
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