Introduction
Nancy Juvonen (born May 18, 1967) is an American film producer. She and Drew Barrymore own the production company Flower Films.
Career
Juvonen was born in Connecticut. Juvonen, who is of Finnish descent, is the daughter of aviation industry executive William H. Juvonen, a Stanford University alumnus and former Marine Aviator. In September 1961, while flying a gunnery mission as a new aviator undergoing fleet replacement pilot training in VMF 334, he experienced a wing failure at the fold joint and ejected from his F-8C Crusader jet. William Juvonen later became an aviation executive before his death in 2018.
Juvonen graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in sociology and cooperative education. After graduating, she worked odd jobs, including at a dude ranch in Wyoming, as a private flight attendant, and for an artist who was trying to eradicate homelessness. She later became an assistant to Clarence Clemons, a member of the E Street Band.
In 1993, Juvonen met Drew Barrymore through her brother Jim, a writer and producer who was working on the set of Mad Love. The two subsequently founded Flower Films.
Personal life
Juvonen married comedian Jimmy Fallon, host of The Tonight Show, on December 22, 2007. After meeting on the set of Saturday Night Live, Nancy and Jimmy began dating in May 2007 after Drew Barrymore invited Fallon to a birthday party she threw for Nancy. A few months later in August 2007 Fallon proposed on the dock at sunset with a Neil Lane designed engagement ring at Nancy's family home in Wolfeboro on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. They were married four months later. They have two daughters: Winnie Rose, born in 2013, and Frances Cole, born in 2014. Both were born via gestational surrogacy.