Allison Therese Abbate (born July 23, 1965) is an American film producer and animator, primarily of animated films.

Biography

Abbate gained experience in animation while working on '' The Little Mermaid'' for

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, before working on '' The Rescuers Down Under'' and ''

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'' where she first met

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. She first worked with

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as a co-producer on the film '' Space Jam'' in 1996. She then helped produce ''

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'' for which she won a

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award. In 2006 she was nominated for a "Motion Picture Producer of the Year" award by the

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for her work on '' Tim Burton's Corpse Bride''. Abbate shifted to the United Kingdom in 2004 to set up an animation production facility for

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. In 2009, she worked on '' Fantastic Mr. Fox''. She was also the voice of Rabbit's ex-girlfriend in the film. Abbate later worked on Burton's '' Frankenweenie'', making it her third major project with Burton (alongside ''Corpse Bride'' and ''

''). Abbate has been married to Tony Cervone, an animation director, writer and producer, since 2012. She returned to the United States in 2012 to serve as an executive producer on Warner Animation Group's first feature, '' The Lego Movie'', released in 2014. In 2017 she was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Warner Animation Group and oversaw films like ''

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'', '' Scoob!'', '' Smallfoot'', ''

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'', '' Lego Movie 2'', ''

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'', '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' and '' DC League of Super-Pets''. She decided to step down in August 2022 after the merger of

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and Discovery, Inc.

Filmography

* '' Out of This World'' (1988) (production associate) * '' The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990) (assistant production manager: layout/retakes) * ''

'' (1993) (artistic coordinator) * '' Runaway Brain'' (1995) (associate producer) * '' Space Jam'' (1996) (animation co-producer) * ''

'' (1999) (producer) * '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' (2003) (animation producer) * '' Corpse Bride'' (2005) (producer) * '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'' (2009) (producer) * '' Frankenweenie'' (2012) (producer) * '' The Lego Movie'' (2014) (executive producer) * '' Smallfoot'' (2018) (executive producer) * '' Scoob!'' (2020) (producer) * '' Tom & Jerry'' (2021) (executive producer) * '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' (2021) (executive producer) * '' DC League of Super-Pets'' (2022) (executive producer)

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* Living people 1965 births 21st-century American women artists American animated film producers American expatriates in England American women animators American women film producers Artists from Brooklyn Filmmakers from Brooklyn BAFTA winners (people) Film producers from New York (state) Warner Bros. Discovery people Warner Bros. people Warner Bros. Animation people Walt Disney Animation Studios people {{US-film-producer-stub