Biography

Stephen Joel Brown is an Emmy nominated television producer, and motion picture producer and executive. He has spent his career in the Media Industry as a senior executive and board member of an internationally based and publicly owned motion picture finance, distribution and marketing/licensing company and as a producer of motion pictures for one of Hollywood's leading production companies.

Stephen is Executive Producer on the Emmy nominated hit Netflix series Emily In Paris created by Darren Star and starring Lily Collins. Season 5 is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2025. Stephen served as a Producer on the Paramount +/Showtime series Uncoupled also created by Mr. Star and starring Neil Patrick Harris.

Previously, Stephen served as President of Production for Kopelson Entertainment, one of Hollywood's leading production companies. Stephen oversaw the productions of such seminal movies as Se7en, the Academy Award-nominated The Fugitive, A Perfect Murder, Devil's Advocate, Outbreak, as well as many others. The motion pictures created during his nearly 12-year tenure with Kopelson have garnered over $2 billion in receipts to date.

Stephen also served as President and CEO of USA-Intertainment Inc., and as Deputy Chairman and a member of the Executive Board of its publicly held Munich, Germany parent Company, Intertainment AG, where he was responsible for the co-financing of several motion pictures with Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, and Paramount Studios.

More recently, Stephen produced The Ottoman Lieutenant starring Josh Hartnett, Sir Ben Kingsley, Michiel Huisman and Hera Hilmar. Released internationally by Universal Pictures, the movie was financed by Y Production, a film finance company based in Turkey where Stephen served as its Chief Executive Officer and oversaw the Company's U.S. operations.

A Los Angeles, California native, Stephen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in economics and history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He maintains residences in New York and Los Angeles, and for many years lived between Rome, Italy and Los Angeles.
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