Kathy Zielinski

Kathy Zielinski is an American former Disney animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
She joined the studio in 1981, starting her career as an animator on The Black Cauldron. She was pregnant with her daughter, Jennifer, while she was working on Aladdin. After working on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Zielinski left Walt Disney Animation Studios and went to work for Dreamworks Animation SKG on films, such as The Prince of Egypt as an animator, The Road to El Dorado as the supervising animator for the villain Tezekel Khan, an animator on the main character Spirit in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and as an animator on Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and The Croods.
Zielinski returned to the Disney studio in late 2013 as an animator for Frozen and Zootopia (though she wasn't credited in the latter).
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Additional Animator
1986	The Great Mouse Detective 	Character Animator: Fidget the Bat
1988	Oliver & Company 	Character Animator: Georgette
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Character Animator: Ursula and Chef Louis
1990	The Rescuers Down Under 	Supervising Animator: Frank
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Animator: LeFou (uncredited)
1992	Aladdin 	Animator: Jafar as Beggar/Snake
1994	The Lion King 	Animator: Scar (uncredited)
1995	Pocahontas 	Visual Development Artist/Character Designer
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Supervising Animator: Claude Frollo
2013	Frozen 	Animator
2014	Big Hero 6 	Animator (uncredited)
2015	Frozen Fever 	Animator (uncredited)
2016	Zootopia 	Animator (uncredited)
==Gallery==
File:Great-mouse-detective-disneyscreencaps.com-2982.jpg|Fidget the Bat
File:Profile - Frank.jpg
Aladdin1982.jpg|Jafar as Beggar
Aladdin-disneyscreencaps com-9415.jpg|Jafar as Snake
Hunchback-disneyscreencaps com-3449.jpeg|Claude Frollo
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Category:1960s births
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Category:Annie Award Winner
Category:Annie Award Nominated
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Category:Disney Renaissance
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Category:The Great Mouse Detective
Category:Oliver & Company
Category:The Little Mermaid
Category:The Rescuers
Category:Aladdin
Category:Pocahontas
Category:The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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