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Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She is the first woman to have written an animated feature for Disney, Beauty and the Beast, which is also the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. She also co-wrote the screenplay of The Lion King, and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and won an Olivier Award.
Birth Name
Linda Cheryl Woolverton
Born
Friday, 19 December 1952
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Greatest Animated Movies | Self | 2016 |
Maleficent: From Fairy Tale to Feature Film | Self | 2014 |
Maleficent: Building an Epic Battle | Self | 2014 |
Makers: Women Who Make America | Self | 2013 |
On Story | Self | 2011 |
The Evidence | Self - Interview Guest | 2001 |
The 48th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1994 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Greatest Animated Movies | Self | 2016 |
Maleficent: From Fairy Tale to Feature Film | Self | 2014 |
Maleficent: Building an Epic Battle | Self | 2014 |
Makers: Women Who Make America | Self | 2013 |
On Story | Self | 2011 |
The Evidence | Self - Interview Guest | 2001 |
The 48th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1994 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Spellbound | 2024 |
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | 2019 |