Biography
Allison Abbate is an American film producer and animator, primarily of animated features. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career at Walt Disney Pictures, working on films including The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990). She later served as artistic coordinator on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Abbate joined Warner Bros. as co-producer on Space Jam (1996). She produced The Iron Giant (1999), for which she received a BAFTA Children's Award. She produced Corpse Bride (2005), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Frankenweenie (2012), and was executive producer on The Lego Movie (2014). In 2004 she moved to the United Kingdom to establish an animation facility at 3 Mills Studios; she returned to the United States in 2012. She has been married to animator Tony Cervone since 2012.
