---
name: "Kathy Altieri"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathy-altieri"
fi1m_id: "kathy-altieri"
imdb_id: "nm0022827"
tmdb_id: 1508424
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T04:10:06.561455+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."
---

# Kathy Altieri

## Identity

Kathy Altieri

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kathy-altieri
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kathy-altieri
- **IMDb ID:** nm0022827
- **TMDB ID:** 1508424
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508424

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1989–2010
- **Frequently works with:** [Bonnie Arnold](https://film.one/person/bonnie-arnold.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 79 (2), 2000s 73 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 71 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Family 5, Adventure 3, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,032m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508424

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Over the Hedge*](https://film.one/film/over-the-hedge.md) (73)

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

## Biography

Kathy Altieri is an American production designer and art director who has worked primarily in animation. She began her career as a background artist and supervisor on several Disney films, including *The Little Mermaid* (1989), *Aladdin* (1992) and *The Lion King* (1994). She joined DreamWorks Animation in 1994 as its first artist hired and later served as art director on *The Prince of Egypt* (1998).

Altieri worked as production designer on *Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron* (2002), *Over the Hedge* (2006), *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010) and *Home* (2015). She received a Saturn Award nomination for her work on *How to Train Your Dragon*. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005.

*Sources: imdb.com, hawaii.edu.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), Fi1m 82, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2010.md)
- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Fi1m 73, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/over-the-hedge.md)
- *The Prince of Egypt* (1998), Fi1m 74, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-egypt.md)
- *The Lion King* (1994), Fi1m 84, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), Fi1m 80, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Home* (2015), Production Design
- *Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury* (2011), Production Design
- *Book of Dragons* (2011), as Art Direction
- *Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon* (2010), Production Design
- *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2010.md)
- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Production Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/over-the-hedge.md)
- *Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron* (2002), Production Design
- *The Prince of Egypt* (1998), as Art Direction — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-egypt.md)
- *The Lion King* (1994), Background Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), Background Designer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)

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