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 ''

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'' for

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, before working on ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' in 1996. She then helped produce ''

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'' for which she won a BAFTA 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 ''

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''. 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 ''

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''. 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 is married to

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, an animation director, writer and producer, since 2012. She returned to the United States in 2012 to serve as an executive producer on

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's first feature, ''

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'', 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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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' and ''

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''. She decided to step down in August 2022 after the merger of

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and

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Filmography

* '' Out of This World'' (1988) (production associate) * ''

'' (1990) (assistant production manager: layout/retakes) * ''

'' (1993) (artistic coordinator) * ''

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'' (1995) (associate producer) * ''

'' (1996) (animation co-producer) * ''

'' (1999) (producer) * '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' (2003) (animation producer) * ''

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'' (2005) (producer) * ''

'' (2009) (producer) * '' Frankenweenie'' (2012) (producer) * ''

'' (2014) (executive producer) * ''

'' (2018) (executive producer) * ''

'' (2020) (producer) * ''

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'' (2021) (executive producer) * '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' (2021) (executive producer) * ''

'' (2022) (executive producer)

References

External links

* BAFTA winners (people) American animated film producers American expatriates in England Living people 1965 births American women film producers American film producers People from Brooklyn 21st-century American women Warner Bros. people Warner Bros. Animation people {{US-film-producer-stub