Lisa Henson is a television and movie producer who has been involved in television shows such as Sid the Science Kid

Sid the Science Kid

Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour PBS Kids series that debuted on September 1, 2008. The computer generated show is produced by Jim Henson Productions and then-PBS member KCET in Los Angeles, California using the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio...

 and blockbuster movies Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary...

 and Batman. She is the daughter of puppeteers Jane

Jane Henson

Jane Ann Henson is the widow of puppeteer Jim Henson. Born Jane Ann Nebel and raised in New York, she met Henson while both were freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park...

 and Jim Henson

Jim Henson

James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...

, and the sister of Brian Henson

Brian Henson

Brian Henson is an Academy Award-winning puppeteer, director, producer, and technician. The son of puppeteers Jane and Jim Henson, Brian was born in New York City, New York....

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She is the CEO of The Jim Henson Company

The Jim Henson Company

The Jim Henson Company, an American entertainment organization, traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The Muppets helped the company gain worldwide acclaim in family entertainment for more than four decades...

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Besides her direct television and movie work, she has been president of production for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

, and an executive for Warner Brothers. She holds a degree from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, where she has also served on the Board of Overseers

Harvard Board of Overseers

The Harvard Board of Overseers is one of Harvard University's two governing boards...

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Television

• Sid the Science Kid (executive producer)
• Jim Henson's Pajanimals
  Jim Henson's Pajanimals
  Jim Henson's Pajanimals is a children's TV series produced by 4Kids Entertainment and airing on PBS Kids Sprout. The Pajanimals are characters that were made by the makers of The Muppets at The Jim Henson Company.-Plot:...
  
   (executive producer)
• Dinosaur Train
  Dinosaur Train
  Dinosaur Train is an American animated series created by Craig Bartlett. The series features a curious young T. rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to meet, explore, and have adventures with all kinds of dinosaurs.It was the second show by The...
  
   (executive producer)
• Unstable Fables
  Unstable Fables
  Unstable Fables is a series of computer animated films produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with Flame Ventures, Prana Studios, and The Weinstein Company. The direct-to-DVD feature-length films are distributed by Genius Products....
  
  
• The Skrumps (producer)

Film

• Lethal Weapon
• Batman
• Five Children and It
  Five Children and It
  Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author Edith Nesbit, first published in 1902; it was expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first of a trilogy...
  
   (producer)
• Fraggle Rock (producer)
• Power of the Dark Crystal (producer)
• High Crimes
  High Crimes
  High Crimes is a 2002 American thriller film directed by Carl Franklin. The screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley is based on a novel by Joseph Finder.-Plot:...
  
   (producer)
• Zero Effect
  Zero Effect
  Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery film written and directed by Jake Kasdan . It stars Bill Pullman as "the world's most private detective" Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo....
  
   (producer)

External links

• Muppet Wiki: Lisa Henson
• Profile at Jim Henson Company