Adele Lim is a Malaysian American film and television producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a screenwriter for the 2018 movie ''

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''. She has given support to young writers as mentor and speaker for the

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(CAPE).

Early life

Lim was born in

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and is of

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descent. She attended Malaysia's Sri Aman Girls School in

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. She started writing as a teenager and undergraduate in the lifestyle section of a local daily. She graduated from

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, Massachusetts with a degree in TV/Film in 1996.

Career

Lim started her career as a script coordinator for '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', getting the job despite her resume being, as she described, "nonexistent". She has written for TV series such as '' One Tree Hill'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Star-Crossed,

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and Lethal Weapon.'' In 2018, Lim was the co-screenwriter for the 2018 movie ''

''. She has reportedly left writing on the sequel, following reports that she was offered significantly less pay than her white, male co-writer Peter Chiarelli. Warner Brothers defended the offer, citing the difference in experience between the two. Lim was recruited by Disney to develop an animated feature film '' Raya and the Last Dragon''. She served as screenwriter alongside Qui Nguyen.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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Adele Lim
in Writers Guild of America West {{DEFAULTSORT:Lim, Adele Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Chinese descent American people of Malaysian descent Malaysian emigrants to the United States American screenwriters Screenwriting instructors American women television writers American television writers 21st-century American women