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.
Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo responds to backlash over controversial Weinstein comments
metro.co.ukEllen Pompeo has defended herself over resurfaced comments she made about disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In a Q&A with Oxford Union conducted back in 2018, theGrey’s Anatomy star could be heard saying that women have to take accountability for their own actions.
And considering Weinstein was recently sentenced to 23 years jail for rape and sexual assault, some fans weren’t too pleased with her quotes and it soon went viral.
But Ellen, 50, took to her Twitter account to clarify that she made the comments before she knew more about Harvey’s crime, explaining that she was talking about harassment based on her own experiences.
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