Jody Allen is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and producer. She is the younger sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and until October 2015 was the chief executive officer of his investment company, Vulcan Inc., which they co-founded in 1986. For more than twenty years, Jodie was known under the surname of her husband – Patton, with whom she divorced in 2009. She grew up in Wedgwood, a Seattle neighborhood, and graduated from high school in 1975 before attending Whitman College, where
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Jody Allen is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and producer. She is the younger sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and until October 2015 was the chief executive officer of his investment company, Vulcan Inc., which they co-founded in 1986. For more than twenty years, Jodie was known under the surname of her husband – Patton, with whom she divorced in 2009.
She grew up in Wedgwood, a Seattle neighborhood, and graduated from high school in 1975 before attending Whitman College, where she studied drama. The actress in the end and did not become, but engaged with her brother growing business, and over time began to invest in the production of films.
She does this very successfully, many of her films were in demand among the audience and received good critical evaluations. For her work in cinema, Jodie was nominated for an Emmy Award for the film “The Soul of Man”, in addition, in the treasury of her awards Independent Spirit Award for Drama.
"Far from paradise" She received four Oscar nominations, as well as a News and Documentary Emmy nomination.