Director · Actor · Writer · Producer

Jennifer Lee

16 credited titles on WatchWise

Jennifer Michelle Lee (born Rebecchi; October 22, 1971) is an American filmmaker and playwright. She served as the chief creative officer (CCO) of Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2018 to 2024, before stepping down to return to full-time filmmaking. She is best known as the writer and one of the directors of Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen 2 (2019), the former of which earned her an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Besides being the first female CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee was the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of two feature films that each earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Associated lifetime gross

$1.5B

Combined reported budget

$325M

Gross / budget

4.7x

Bankability Index

54 / 100

Associated performance by genre

Worldwide gross by tagged contribution — US$.

Animation

$1.4B · 2 films · 50% hit

Sci-Fi

$80M · 1 film · 0% hit

Drama

$2.6M · 1 film · 100% hit

Bankability assessment

54/100Developing verified track record

Films measured × gross-vs-budget efficiency, weighted by billing prominence — lead roles and directing count fully, minor roles fractionally. Association, not attribution — not a claim that this individual caused the revenue.

Filmography cards

Each title carries role, budget, worldwide gross and commercial verdict.

Based on 4 of 12 catalogued titles with reported budget and worldwide gross — figures from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.