Brenda Chapman

Brenda Chapman is an American screenwriter, storyboard artist, director, and producer for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios.
Chapman was born in Beason, Illinois as the youngest of five children. She went to Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, receiving her Associate of Arts degree. She then moved to California and studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a story trainee on the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid. She was one of several key story artists on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, where she worked closely with future Disney director Roger Allers to define many of the key sequences and motifs used in the film. She later served as head of story, the first woman to do so in an animated feature film, for Disney's animated classic The Lion King.
In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt.
She also directed the 2012 Disney/Pixar film Brave with Mark Andrews, becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Chapman's daughter, Emma was the inspiration for Merida in Brave.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Studio
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit 	In Between Artist: Additional Animation 	Touchstone Pictures
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Story Artist 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
1990	The Rescuers Down Under 	Story Artist 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Story 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
1994	The Lion King 	Story Supervisor 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Story 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
1999	Fantasia 2000 	Story 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2009	Up 	Additional Voices/Senior Creative Team 	Pixar
2012	Brave 	Director/Screenplay/Story/Senior Creative Team	Pixar
2015	Strange Magic 	Story Consultant/Voice Actress (Imp) 	Lucasfilm
2019	The Lion King 	Story 	
==Gallery==
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Lima family.jpg|Brenda Chapman with her husband, Kevin Lima and their daughter, Emma Rose Lima.
Mark Andrews Brenda Chapman at 2013 Oscars.jpg|Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews at the 2013 Oscars.
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