Raymond S. Persi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Raymond S. Persi

American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1975

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: screenwriter, animator, television director, voice actor, puppeteer, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Raymond S. Persi

  • Raymond S.
  • Persi (born February 17, 1975) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor.
  • He has directed many episodes of The Simpsons, including "Mobile Homer", "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", "The Monkey Suit", "Little Big Girl", "24 Minutes", "Love, Springfieldian Style" and the Emmy-award winning "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story".
  • Persi went on to work as a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie (2007). Outside of his Simpsons work, Persi co-directed Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records).
  • The video won the "Best Animated Music Video" award at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
  • Raymond has also founded the performance 'RayRay', in which the character costumes were used for a creepypasta called 'Blank Room Soup'. In 2010, Persi moved from Fox Animation Studios to Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked extensively on Academy Award nominee Wreck-It Ralph (2012).
  • In addition to serving as storyboard artist, he had a prominent acting role in the film as Gene, leader of the Nicelanders whom Wreck-It Ralph is programmed to antagonize.
  • Persi also voices the Zombie from The House of the Dead in a scene where Ralph joins other video game villains at a support group meeting. Persi has become a mainstay with Disney, providing additional voices and storyboard work for Frozen (2013), as well as the voice of Flash the Sloth and Officer Higgins in Zootopia (2016).Raymond is part-Thai on his mother's side.
  • The S initial stands for Saharath, as used in the credits for "Love, Springfieldian Style".

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