# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lauren-macmullan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:48:10.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lauren-macmullan"
name: "Lauren MacMullan"
slug: "lauren-macmullan"
description: "Lauren Hunter MacMullan is an American animation director. She grew up in the Pennsylvania suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, and was on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, where she directed the episode with guest stars Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show."
tagline: "Animation director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lauren_MacMullan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.08237232289950577
  historical:           12.75536533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534041/"
    handle:    "nm0534041"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullanová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Λόρεν ΜακΜούλλαν"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_MacMullan"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_MacMullan"
    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Lauren MacMullan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump