Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director who served as head of story on The Lion King (1994) at Walt Disney Feature Animation. She joined DreamWorks Animation at its inception in 1994 and co-directed The Prince of Egypt (1998), becoming the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio. She later co-directed Pixar's Brave (2012), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. She studied character animation at the California Institute of the Arts and began her career at Disney in 1987.
“Walt left like half of his estate to fund this institution. And it was that... All of them were hired directly by Disney and Disney animation right out of school. And then Disney fired all of them.”
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