Feige was raised in Westfield, New Jersey, where he graduated from Westfield High School. His grandfather had been a television Producer in the 1950s, having worked on soap operas including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
Feige is married to wife Caitlin, a cardiothoracic nurse with whom he has a daughter born circa 2009.
Feige received the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award at the ICG Publicists Guild Awards on February 22, 2013. The Awards committee chairman, Henri Bollinger, said "Kevin Feige's understanding and appreciation of publicity and promotion in the role of a movie's success has led to a string of blockbuster feature films adapted from the pages of Marvel comic books during the past 10 years." As of April 2015, his contract with Marvel Studios will end in 2018.
