Jennifer Lee (filmmaker)

Jennifer Michelle Lee is an American screenwriter and film director. Her credits include cowriting the screenplay for Disneys WreckIt Ralph , and writing and codirecting the 2013 Disney animated feature Frozen, which won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Lee was born in 1971 to Linda Lee and Saverio Rebecchi, who were living in Barrington at the time after their divorce, Lee and her older sister, Amy, lived with their mother in East Providence, Rhode Island. Both Lee and her older sister graduated from East Providence High School and the University of New Hampshire. Lee earned a bachelors degree in English in 1992 and went to New York City, where she worked as a graphic artist in publishing she designed audiobooks for Random House. As an adult, she began using her mothers maiden name, Lee, in a professional capacity and in January 1995, legally changed her last name from Rebecchi to Lee.

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