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Abigail Brady | |
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| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 44–45) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Website | morwen |
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[update], works for Sony on PlayStation Vue.[1]
See also
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Keen, Tony (10 February 2017). "Transrealities 1". FA The Comiczine. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ Hickey, Andrew (19 September 2017). "Transrealities". Mindless Ones. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ 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.
References to check/include
edit- Johnston, Rich (7–8 November 2013). "When Laurie Penny Became An Iron Man Character (Update – Also Abigail Brady)". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Johnston, Rich (4 January 2017). "Abigail Brady And Steven Horry's Trans Superhero Comic, Transrealities, Now On ComiXology". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Oram, Bob (12 February 2018). "DIY earworms from Denitto". Morning Star. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- "About". Abigail Brady. n.d. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- "10 scientific and technical achievements to be honored with academy awards". www.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- "Transrealities". ComiXology. n.d. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Sargent, J.F.; Brady, Abigail (15 August 2015). "Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use". Cracked.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Brady, Abigail (2 July 2015). "Orange Is The New Black: how the book adds to the show". Den of Geek. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Lindon, Heather L.; Gardiner, Lauren M.; Brady, Abigail; Vorontsova, Maria S. (6 May 2015). "Fewer than three percent of land plant species named by women: Author gender over 260 years". Taxon. 2 (7). International Association for Plant Taxonomy: 209–215. doi:10.12705/642.4. ISSN 1996-8175.
- Brady, Abigail (14 February 2014). "Facebook introduces choice of 50 genders – but why can't we write in our own?". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- Hern, Alex (23 August 2013). "Behind the Wikipedia wars: what happened when Bradley Manning became Chelsea". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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Category:20th-century births Category:Living people Category:British software engineers Category:Computer graphics professionals Category:English comics writers Category:LGBTQ comics creators Category:Female comics writers Category:Transgender computer programmers Category:Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners Category:Alumni of the University of Southampton Category:Transgender writers