Actor

Chris Wedge

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Movies: 36Series: 2Crew credits: 29

TMDB ID: 5713

IMDb ID: nm0917188

Known for: Acting

Born: March 20, 1957

Age: 68

Place of birth: Binghamton, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1982 - 2027

Years active: 46

Average TMDB rating: 6.73

Wikidata: Q185655

Also known as

John Christopher Wedge • Christopher Wedge

Other jobs

Executive Producer (18)Director (6)Producer (2)Animation Director (1)Thanks (1)Visual Effects (1)

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Biography

John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–2022).