Jennifer Michelle Lee (born October 22, 1971 as Jennifer Michelle Rebecchi) is an American film director, screenwriter and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is best known as the writer and director of the 2013 Disney animated feature Frozen, for which she earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee is the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. Lee was born in October 22, 1971 to Linda Lee and Saverio Rebecchi, who were living in Barrington at the time; after their divorce, Lee and her older sister, Amy, lived with their mother in East Providence, Rhode Island. Both Lee and her older sister graduated from East Providence High School and the University of New Hampshire. Lee earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1992 and went to New York City, where she worked as a graphic artist in publishing; she designed audiobooks for Random House. As an adult, she began using her mother's maiden name, Lee, in a professional capacity[and in January 1995, legally changed her last name from Rebecchi to Lee.

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