# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-woolverton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:33:10.508Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-woolverton"
name: "Linda Woolverton"
slug: "linda-woolverton"
description: "Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She is the first woman to have written an animated feature for Disney, Beauty and the Beast (1991), which is also the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. She also co-wrote the screenplay of The Lion King (1994), provided additional story material for Mulan (1998), and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and won an Olivier Award."
tagline: "American screenwriter (born 1952)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump