Chris Wedge

Director and producer. Born 20 March 1957 in Binghamton, New York, USA.

Titles on Fi1m4 acting · 2 directing · 2 producing

Average Fi1m scoreas director · 2 titles

Oscar1 won · 1 nominated

Born

20 March 1957, Binghamton, New York, USA

Active

2002–2016

Frequently works with

Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Lori Forte, Ray Romano, Carlos Saldanha, John C. Donkin, Michael Berg, Patrick Worlock

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Biography

Chris Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator and voice actor. He co-founded Blue Sky Studios in 1987 and directed the studio's first computer-animated feature, Ice Age (2002), in which he also voiced the character Scrat.

Wedge directed the Academy Award-winning short Bunny (1998) and the features Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). He later directed the live-action film Monster Trucks (2016). He has served as executive producer on subsequent Ice Age films and voiced Scrat across the franchise.

Wedge was born on 20 March 1957 in Binghamton, New York. He studied film at the State University of New York at Purchase and computer graphics at Ohio State University.

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