---
name: "Elizabeth Ito"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elizabeth-ito"
fi1m_id: "elizabeth-ito"
imdb_id: "nm2423397"
tmdb_id: 1450353
roles: ["Director"]
born: "23 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T02:08:45.063436+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."
---

# Elizabeth Ito

## Identity

Elizabeth Ito

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elizabeth-ito
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elizabeth-ito
- **IMDb ID:** nm2423397
- **TMDB ID:** 1450353
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2423397/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1450353

Director. Born 23 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 23 June 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2007–2010
- **Frequently works with:** [Kent Osborne](https://film.one/person/kent-osborne.md), [Olivia Olson](https://film.one/person/olivia-olson.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2423397/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1450353

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Phineas and Ferb*](https://film.one/tv/phineas-and-ferb.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Elizabeth Ito is an American director, writer and storyboard artist. She was born on 23 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, and studied character animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

She began her career working on series including *Phineas and Ferb* (2007), where she contributed as a writer and storyboard artist, and *Adventure Time* (2010), initially as a storyboard artist and writer before becoming supervising director on 53 episodes from 2013 to 2017. She created the short *Welcome to My Life* (2015) and the Netflix series *City of Ghosts* (2021), on which she served as creator, writer, director and executive producer.

Ito has also worked as a storyboard or story artist on feature films such as *Astro Boy* (2009), *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water* (2015) and *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013). She received an Emmy Award for her directing work on *Adventure Time*.

*Sources: imdb.com, adventuretime.fandom.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Phineas and Ferb* (2007), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/phineas-and-ferb.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Behind The Elephant* (2025), Creative Director, Writer
- *Mall Stories* (2022), Director
- *Battle Kitty* (2022), series, Thanks
- *Yuki 7* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *City of Ghosts* (2021), series, Story, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Angry Birds Movie 2* (2019), Story Artist
- *Lenny* (2018), Director
- *Welcome to My Life* (2017), as Narrator (voice) · Creator, Director
- *Adventure Time Forever* (2015), Actor
- *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water* (2015), Storyboard
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), Story Artist
- *Adventure Time* (2010), series, Director
- *Astro Boy* (2009), Story Artist
- *Phineas and Ferb* (2007), series, Writer, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/phineas-and-ferb.md)
- *Everyone's Hero* (2006), Storyboard Artist

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