He is the founder, president and chief executive of Black Bear Pictures, whose productions include the 2014 film The Imitation Game.
Teddy Schwarzman was born in 1979 in New York City, to Stephen A. Schwarzman, a co-founder, chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, and Ellen Katz (née Philips), a trustee of Northwestern University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center[1] and his sister is writer and podcaster Zibby Owens.
[6] His fifth and most successful film was The Imitation Game, a 2014 biopic about Alan Turing, which he produced alongside Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky.
Schwarzman bought Graham Moore's screenplay when Warner Bros. sold it in 2012, competing with 30 other producers who wanted to acquire the script.
[7] Schwarzman married Ellen Marie Zajac, a New York City lawyer whom he met at Duke, in November 2007 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.