Abigail Brady
Born1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)
NationalityBritish
OccupationSoftware engineer
Websitemorwen.net

Abigail Brady (born 1979 or 1980[1]) is a software engineer and comic writer. Along with Jon Wadelton and Jerry Huxtable, she received a science and engineering Academy Award in February 2018 as principal software engineer on Nuke, a digital compositing tool used in films such as Blade Runner 2049, Rogue One and The Jungle Book.[2]

According to The Academy, Brady is the second openly transgender person to receive a scientific and technical Academy Award, after Paige Warner.[3]

Brady is also the author of the comic Transrealities,[4][5] and, alongside Laurie Penny, is part of the inspiration for the character Abigail Beryl Burns in Kieron Gillen's Iron Man comics.[6]

Brady is from Leicester and lives in Camden Town, having moved to London in 2006.[1][3] She studied computer science at the University of Southampton, and, as of February 2018, works for Sony on PlayStation Vue.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Chapman, Helen (8 February 2018). "Tech ace from Camden Town wins special effects software Oscar". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Academy Awards honour Southampton alumna for innovation to the visual effects industry". University of Southampton Electronics and Computer Science. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b Allen, Samantha (17 February 2018). "Meet Abigail Brady, The Trans Techie Who Has Already Won an Academy Award". Daily Beast. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  4. ^ Keen, Tony (10 February 2017). "Transrealities 1". FA The Comiczine. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  5. ^ Hickey, Andrew (19 September 2017). "Transrealities". Mindless Ones. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  6. ^ Sweeney, David (2015). ""You wish to know of war, old man?"". In Scott, Kevin Michael (ed.). Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror. McFarland. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7864-9689-1. A comics reader, Penny has received perhaps the fan's highest accolade, serving as the inspiration, along with fellow writer and feminist Abigail Brady, for the Iron Man character Abigail Beryl Burns, created by writer Kieron Gillen. ... visually, Burns combines Penny's 'emo' dress sense with Brady's hairstyle.

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