Dana Walden

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  • Title
    Chairman, General Entertainment Content
  • Affiliation
    Disney
  • Country
    U.S.

Since joining Disney in 2019, Walden has been its not-so-secret weapon in the streaming wars, earning the longtime TV exec a promotion to the top job at Disney’s General Entertainment Content group in June. She’s now in charge of more than 300 shows, 4,500 hours of content, and reportedly a $10 billion budget. Shows under her purview—including Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and Dopesick—earned 117 Emmy nods this year.