Jennifer Lee

55, from Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Artwork for FrozenImage of Jennifer Lee

Biography

Jennifer Michelle Lee (born October 22, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is best known as the writer and director of Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen II (2019), the former of which earned her an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee is the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. She has won one Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Annie Award, and has been nominated for one BAFTA Award and two Annie Awards.

Timeline

2027Future projects

  • Poster for Frozen III

    Director

2026Aged 55

  • Poster for Disney+ Insider: World of Frozen

    Herself

  • Poster for Disney Worldbuilders

    Self

2025Aged 54

  • Poster for Versa

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical

    Writer

2024Aged 53

  • Poster for Iwájú: A Day Ahead

    Self

  • Poster for D.I.Y. Duck

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Moana 2

    Executive Producer

2023Aged 52

  • Poster for Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest

    Art Designer

  • Poster for Once Upon a Studio

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Wish

    Story

2022Aged 51

  • Poster for Strange World

    Executive Producer

2021Aged 50

  • Poster for Us Again

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Raya and the Last Dragon

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Encanto

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Far from the Tree

    Executive Producer

2020Aged 49

  • Poster for I Am With You

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Once Upon a Snowman

    Executive Producer

2019Aged 48

  • Poster for Frozen II

    Director

2018Aged 47

  • Poster for A Wrinkle in Time

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Ralph Breaks the Internet

    Executive Producer

2017Aged 46

  • Poster for Olaf's Frozen Adventure

    Characters

2016Aged 45

  • Poster for Zootopia

    Story

2015Aged 44

  • Poster for Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Herself

  • Poster for Frozen Fever

    Writer

2014Aged 43

  • Poster for The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic

    Self

2013Aged 42

  • Poster for Frozen

    Queen / Additional Voices (voice)

2012Aged 41

  • Poster for Wreck-It Ralph

    Screenplay

Year unknown

  • Poster for The Way Between

    Writer

  • Poster for Frozen IV

    Director