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Brenda Chapman Lima is a staff member of Pixar. She was one of three directors who worked on 1998's The Prince of Egypt (along with Steve Hickner and Simon Wells).

A native of the state of Illinois, Chapman's interest in animation as a teenager led her to study and then at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). During her summer breaks, she began her professional career working in syndicated television animation. After graduating with a BFA in Character Animation, she was a story trainee on Disney's successful animated film The Little Mermaid. She later served as head of story another Disney film, The Lion King, overseeing both the writers and the artists on the project.

Chapman also worked in story and development for other animated films such as The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (all from Disney). She has been with DreamWorks Animation from its inception in the fall of 1994.

Chapman is only the third woman ever to direct an animated film (Lotte Reiniger of The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and Arna Selznick of The Care Bears Movie, came before her).

She is married to husband Kevin Lima, a member of the Disney Studios.

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