Allison Lyon Segan

Allison Lyon Segan is a former film producer, active from 1994 to 2004. Her feature films have garnered eight Academy Awards out of eleven nominations. Her last work as a producer was Shark Tale (2004), an animated film for DreamWorks that features Will Smith, Renée Zellweger, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese. Her thriller Swimfan, starring Erika Christensen and Jesse Bradford, was released by Twentieth Century Fox in September 2002 and became her fifth #1 movie at the box office on its opening weekend. She also produced One Night at McCool's for USA Films, starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Michael Douglas.

As President of the Paramount Pictures-based production company Mutual Films Inc., Segan co-produced the Academy Award-winning Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Vin Diesel; produced DreamWorks Pictures’ comedy-adventure Paulie; executive produced the action-thriller Hard Rain starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater; and produced The Ripper for the USA Network.

Previously, she co-produced blockbuster hits such as the action-thriller Broken Arrow, directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater; Speed, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock; and A Pyromaniac's Love Story, a romantic comedy starring Billy Baldwin and John Leguizamo.

Segan was born to a Jewish family, the daughter of Judith and Loren Lyon. She is married to television and film producer Lloyd Segan. In 2006, the family started attending the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, where she joined the Board of Trustees in July 2025, and he served as President of the Board from 2017 to 2020.