Biography
Anna Hamilton Phelan is an American screenwriter and actress. She studied theatre arts at Emerson College in Boston until 1965 and began her career as a stage actress in New York before moving to Los Angeles, where she appeared in television productions.
Phelan wrote the screenplay for Mask (1985), directed by Peter Bogdanovich, after meeting the subject’s family while working in a hospital. Her other screenwriting credits include Gorillas in the Mist (1988), In Love and War (1996), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Amelia (2009). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Gorillas in the Mist and received Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Mask and Gorillas in the Mist. She also appeared in Mask as the Puppy Lady.
