---
name: "Anna Hamilton Phelan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anna-hamilton-phelan"
fi1m_id: "anna-hamilton-phelan"
imdb_id: "nm0357703"
tmdb_id: 32795
wikidata_id: "Q4972822"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-04T19:22:03.739119+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anna Hamilton Phelan

## Identity

Anna Hamilton Phelan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anna-hamilton-phelan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anna-hamilton-phelan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0357703
- **TMDB ID:** 32795
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4972822
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hamilton_Phelan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357703/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32795

Writer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hamilton_Phelan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357703/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32795

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mask* (1985), Fi1m 81, as Puppy Lady — [page](https://film.one/film/mask.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Amelia* (2009), Writer
- *Girl, Interrupted* (1999), Screenplay
- *In Love and War* (1996), Screenplay
- *Gorillas in the Mist* (1988), Screenplay, Story
- *Into the Homeland* (1987), Writer
- *Mask* (1985), as Puppy Lady · Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/mask.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1989: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Gorillas in the Mist*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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