DeVon Franklin

DeVon Franklin is a film producer, author and motivational speaker best known for producing inspirational movies including Miracles From Heaven, Breakthrough and The Star. Franklin spent his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. He developed an interest in filmmaking at a young age and attended the University of Southern California, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2000.

Franklin began his Hollywood career as an intern at Will Smith and James Lassiter‘s Overbrook Entertainment while attending USC. He later worked at Edmonds Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before joining Sony Pictures in 2005. He was named senior vice president of production at Columbia Pictures in 2012, becoming one of Hollywood’s youngest executives in the position. He launched his own production company, Franklin Entertainment, in 2014.

His producing credits include The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Hancock (2008), Heaven Is for Real (2014), Miracles From Heaven (2016), The Star (2017) and Breakthrough (2019). He is also a New York Times bestselling author of books including Produced by Faith (2012) and The Wait (2016), which he cowrote with his ex-wife, actress Meagan Good. Franklin has also appeared as a relationship expert on Married at First Sight.

Franklin met Good in 2011 while working on Jumping the Broom. They married in June 2012, announced their separation in 2021 and finalized their divorce in June the following year. Franklin tied the knot with celebrity trainer Maria Castillo in 2025.