Kathy Zielinski – my 119th choice as a Disney Legend

Kathy Zielinski is my 119th pick to be named a Disney Legend. She joined the studio in 1981, starting The Black Cauldron. Zielinski is the second woman to have ever earned the credit of supervising animator on a Disney film as the supervising animator on Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She actually was supposed to be the first when she was originally assigned to supervise Lefou in Beauty and the Beast but she left the studio during the film’s production and by the time she actually got a credit Ellen Woodbury had beaten her to it. Besides her work for Disney she has been an animator with our studios working on films such as The Prince of Egypt, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon.

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Below is her her Disney filmography:

1983    Mickey's Christmas Carol      

1985    The Black Cauldron   

1986    The Great Mouse Detective 

1988    Who Framed Roger Rabbit   

1988    Oliver and Company     

1989    The Little Mermaid   

1990    The Rescuers Down Under   

1992    Aladdin          

1995    Pocahontas    

1996    The Hunchback of Notre Dame        

2013    Frozen

2016    Zootopia



Kathy Zielinski - 2D Animation Reel from Kathy Zielinski on Vimeo.