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100 Notable alumni of California Institute of the Arts

Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees

California Institute of the Arts is ranked #3,347 in the world and #871 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from California Institute of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with California Institute of the Arts won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Ann Telnaes

1. Ann Telnaes

1960-. (aged 66)
cartoonist animator journalist
Ann Carolyn Telnaes is an American editorial cartoonist. She creates cartoons in forms including animation, visual essays, live sketches, and traditional print. She worked for The Washington Post from 2008 until her resignation on January 3, 2025. She held a solo exhibition at the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in 2004.
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Stephen Anderson

2. Stephen Anderson

1970-. (aged 56)
film screenwriter film director animator actor voice actor
Stephen Anderson is an American animator and voice actor working for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Tony Oursler

3. Tony Oursler

1957-. (aged 69)
video artist draftsperson director installation artist television producer
Tony Oursler is an American multimedia and installation artist married to Jacqueline Humphries. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums, working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. He lives and works in New York City.
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Nate Wood

4. Nate Wood

1979-. (aged 47)
jazz musician jazz drummer jazz singer jazz guitarist jazz bassist
Nate Wood is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Wayne Krantz, Kneebody, Tigran Hamasyan, Louis Cole, The Calling, and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders.
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Andrew Ahn

5. Andrew Ahn

screenwriter film director director film producer
Andrew Ahn is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed the feature films Spa Night (2016), Driveways (2019), Fire Island (2022), and The Wedding Banquet (2025).
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Mark Henn

6. Mark Henn

1958-. (aged 68)
character animator animator
Mark Alan Henn is an American animator and film director. His work includes animated characters for Walt Disney Animation Studios films, most notably leading or titular characters and heroines. He served as the lead animator for Basil, Dr. David Q. Dawson, and Olivia in The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Oliver, Jenny, and Dodger in Oliver & Company (1988), Ariel in...
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Laura Rizzotto

7. Laura Rizzotto

1994-. (aged 32)
singer pianist singer-songwriter composer guitarist
Laura de Carvalho Rizzotto is a Latvian-Brazilian singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist. She released her debut studio album Made in Rio in 2011 through Universal Music Brazil, which included the single "Friend in Me". In 2014, she independently released her second studio album Reason to Stay, and independently released the extended play RUBY in 2017.
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Jill Culton

8. Jill Culton

1973-. (aged 53)
screenwriter director visual artist storyboard artist animator
Jill Culton is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and screenwriter. With her directorial debut on Sony Pictures Animation's first animated film, Open Season, she became the first female principal director of a big budget, computer-generated feature film.
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Mark Edward

9. Mark Edward

1951-2024 (aged 73)
magician
Mark Edward was an American mentalist and author. He wrote books on mentalism and séance theory and production, including Psychic Blues (2009), where he discussed working for the Psychic Friends Network. Wilson made appearances on television as both primary consultant and on-air performer in programming such as ABC's The Con, A & E's Biography: "Houdini, the Great Escape", NBC's The...
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Catherine Opie

10. Catherine Opie

1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher photographer film director
Catherine Sue Opie is an American fine art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Tony Bancroft

11. Tony Bancroft

1967-. (aged 59)
voice director character animator voice actor animator film director
Tony Bancroft is an American animator and film director who frequently collaborates with Disney. He is the founder and owner of the faith-driven animation company Toonacious Family Entertainment. Tony is the Executive VP Creative Development and Production for DivideNine Animation Studios.
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David Hammons

12. David Hammons

1943-. (aged 83)
architectural draftsperson video artist draftsperson installation artist conceptual artist
David Hammons is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s.
Robert Stromberg

13. Robert Stromberg

1965-. (aged 61)
production designer designer film director
Robert Stromberg is an American special effects artist, production designer, filmmaker, and film director. He is best known for his work on Avatar and Alice in Wonderland (2010), for which he won consecutive Academy Awards, and for directing Disney's Maleficent (2014).
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Eliza Hittman

14. Eliza Hittman

1979-. (aged 47)
film producer screenwriter film director
Eliza Hittman is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer from New York City. She has won multiple awards for her film Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which include the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award—both for best screenplay.
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Jorge R. Gutiérrez

15. Jorge R. Gutiérrez

1975-. (aged 51)
film director painter animator television producer production designer
Jorge Ramirez Gutierrez, also known as Super Macho is a Mexican animator, writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He co-created the Nickelodeon animated series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera with his wife Sandra Equihua, and co-wrote and directed the film The Book of Life and the television miniseries Maya and the Three. He and Equihua founded the production...
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Kyle Balda

16. Kyle Balda

1971-. (aged 55)
animator film director
Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films The Lorax (2012), with Chris Renaud; Minions (2015) and Despicable Me 3 (2017), with Pierre Coffin; and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), with Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to...
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Gary Trousdale

17. Gary Trousdale

1960-. (aged 66)
voice actor television director effects animator actor director
Gary Trousdale is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing films such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn.
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Thor Freudenthal

18. Thor Freudenthal

1972-. (aged 54)
screenwriter director film director
Thor Freudenthal is a German film director, screenwriter, animator and special effects artist best known for his work on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
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Mark Osborne

19. Mark Osborne

1970-. (aged 56)
film producer screenwriter film screenwriter executive producer animator
Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He is best known for directing the animated films Kung Fu Panda (2008) and The Little Prince (2015), the former of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He also directed the stop-motion short film More (1998), which was nominated for Academy Award for...
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Robert Williams

20. Robert Williams

1943-. (aged 83)
painter comics artist graphic designer illustrator visual artist
Robert L. Williams, often styled Robt. Williams, is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. Williams was one of the group of artists who produced Zap Comix, along with other underground cartoonists, such as Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir...
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Mark Bradford

21. Mark Bradford

1961-. (aged 65)
conceptual artist sculptor artist installation artist photographer
Mark Bradford is an American visual artist. Bradford was born, lives, and works in Los Angeles and studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Recognized for his collaged painting works, which have been shown internationally, his practice also encompasses video, print, and installation. Bradford was the U.S. representative for the 2017 Venice Biennale. He was included in Time Magazine’s...
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Mike Rianda

22. Mike Rianda

1984-. (aged 42)
screenwriter director film director animator voice actor
Michael Rianda is an American cartoonist, animator, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He is known for his work on Gravity Falls as a creative director and writer for season 1, and creative consultant for season 2. He is also known for directing, co-writing, and co-starring his feature directorial debut The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), for which he was nominated...
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Don Bachardy

23. Don Bachardy

1934-. (aged 92)
painter screenwriter artist
Donald Jess Bachardy is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica, California. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for more than 30 years.
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Skyler Page

24. Skyler Page

1989-. (aged 37)
screenwriter voice actor actor animator
Skyler Dale Page is an American former animator, writer, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network animated series Clarence, as well as for his tenure as a writer and storyboard artist on the series Adventure Time.
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Savage Steve Holland

25. Savage Steve Holland

1960-. (aged 66)
casting director screenwriter television producer voice actor animator
Savage Steve Holland is an American film and television director, writer, producer, animator and voice actor most known for directing Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got into College (1989), and animated the "Whammy" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and...
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Arturo Márquez

26. Arturo Márquez

1950-. (aged 76)
composer conductor
Arturo Márquez Navarro is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. His best known work is Danzón No. 2.
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Julia Holter

27. Julia Holter

1984-. (aged 42)
songwriter singer record producer musician
Julia Shammas Holter is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist, and academic, based in Los Angeles. Her work has received critical acclaim and incorporates elements of art pop, chamber pop, baroque pop and ambient. Following three independent album productions, Holter released Tragedy as her first official studio album in 2011. Ekstasis followed in 2012. After signing with Domino Records...
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Peter Chung

28. Peter Chung

1961-. (aged 65)
screenwriter film director animator film screenwriter character designer
Peter Chung is an American animator and director. He is best known for his unique style of animation, as well as for being the creator and director of Æon Flux and for his character design for Reign: The Conqueror.
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Arlene Klasky

29. Arlene Klasky

1949-. (aged 77)
graphic designer screenwriter television producer animator film producer
Arlene Phyllis Klasky is an American retired animator, graphic designer, producer and co-founder of Klasky Csupo with Gábor Csupó. In 1999, she was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Animation" by Animation Magazine. She is most known for her work with Nickelodeon in the 1990s and 2000s. She, along with her ex-husband Gábor Csupó and Paul Germain, co-created...
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Ravi Coltrane

30. Ravi Coltrane

1965-. (aged 61)
record producer saxophonist jazz musician
Ravi Coltrane is an American jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced music for pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
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Adrian Molina

31. Adrian Molina

1985-. (aged 41)
screenwriter film screenwriter story artist lyricist animator
Adrian Molina is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter and director. He is best known for his works at Pixar, including co-writing and co-directing Coco and Elio (2025), with the latter being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Michael Fitzpatrick

32. Michael Fitzpatrick

1970-. (aged 56)
singer songwriter musician
Michael Sean "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, known professionally as FITZ, is a French musician, who is the lead vocalist of the indie pop/neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums.
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Ed Ruscha

33. Ed Ruscha

1937-. (aged 89)
installation artist sculptor visual artist painter graphic designer
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.
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Amanda Aday

34. Amanda Aday

1981-. (aged 45)
stage actor film director television actor actor film actor
Amanda Lee Aday is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Dora Mae Dreifuss on the first season of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–05).
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Glen Keane

35. Glen Keane

1954-. (aged 72)
concept artist character designer animator cartoonist writer
Glen Keane is an American animator, director, author and illustrator. As a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for 38 years, he worked on feature films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled. He received the 1992 Annie Award for character animation and the 2007 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the...
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Michel Ocelot

36. Michel Ocelot

1943-. (aged 83)
painter screenwriter manufacturer director animator
Michel Ocelot is a French screenwriter, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator and other roles in earlier works) and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won...
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Patrick McHale

37. Patrick McHale

1983-. (aged 43)
comics writer film director animator television producer creative director
Patrick Nolen McHale is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director, and musician. He is best known for creating the animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall.
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Tony Anselmo

38. Tony Anselmo

1960-. (aged 66)
dub actor character animator clean-up artist voice actor actor
Tony Anselmo is an American voice actor and animator. He has been the official character voice of Donald Duck since 1985 following the death of the original voice actor, Clarence Nash. He has also provided voices for Donald's triplet nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and his girlfriend, Daisy Duck.
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John Musker

39. John Musker

1953-. (aged 73)
character animator director film director film producer screenwriter
John Edward Musker is an American animator and filmmaker. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), The Princess and the Frog (2009), and Moana (2016).
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Chris Buck

40. Chris Buck

1960-. (aged 66)
concept artist character designer actor composer voice actor
Christopher James Buck is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing Tarzan (1999), Surf's Up (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), Frozen (2013; which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2014), Frozen II (2019), and Wish (2023). He also worked as a supervising animator and story artist on Pocahontas...
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Rich Moore

41. Rich Moore

1963-. (aged 63)
film director animator film producer actor screenwriter
Rich Moore is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor. He is best known for serving as a director on primetime animated television series such as The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama as well as directing the films Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He...
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Chris Miller

42. Chris Miller

1968-. (aged 58)
film actor film director animator actor voice actor
Christopher Matthew Miller is an American animator, director, and voice actor employed by Paramount Animation and formerly DreamWorks Animation. He is best known for directing Shrek the Third and Puss in Boots (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination) and for voicing The Magic Mirror from the Shrek film series and Kowalski the penguin in the Madagascar film...
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Mary Costa

43. Mary Costa

1930-. (aged 96)
voice actor opera singer actor film actor
Mary Costa is an American retired actress and singer. Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. She is a recipient of the...
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Walt Dohrn

44. Walt Dohrn

1970-. (aged 56)
film director director musician television actor voice actor
Walter Dohrn is an American writer, director, animator, musician, and voice actor. He performed the voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After (2010), as well as various characters in Shrek the Third (2007). He co-directed the film Trolls (2016) and directed its sequels, and voiced various characters in the franchise. With Conrad Vernon, he is co-directing Shrek 5, set for...
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John Maus

45. John Maus

1980-. (aged 46)
record producer composer musician
John Maus is an American musician, composer, singer, and songwriter known for his baritone singing style and his use of vintage synthesizer sounds and medieval music church modes, a combination that often draws comparisons to 1980s goth-pop. His early lo-fi music recordings anticipated and inspired the late 2000s hypnagogic pop movement. On stage, he is characterized for his intense displays...
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Condola Rashād

46. Condola Rashād

1986-. (aged 40)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Condola Phylea Rashad, also known professionally as Dola Rashad, is an American actress best known for her work in the theatre. She first broke out with a critically acclaimed performance in Lynn Nottage's off-Broadway play Ruined (2009), which won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Gail Ann Dorsey

47. Gail Ann Dorsey

1962-. (aged 64)
backing vocalist singer guitarist
Gail Ann Dorsey is an American musician. With a long career as a session musician mainly on bass guitar, she performed regularly in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to Bowie's last tour in 2004.
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Rob Minkoff

48. Rob Minkoff

1962-. (aged 64)
screenwriter character animator film director film producer
Robert Ralph Minkoff is an American director, animator, and producer. He is best known for co-directing The Lion King (along with Roger Allers), and live-action films including Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). In recent decades, he returned to feature animation with Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Paws of...
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Lauren Faust

49. Lauren Faust

1974-. (aged 52)
painter screenwriter television producer animator film director
Lauren J. Faust is an American animator, writer, director, and producer. She is known for developing the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls. Faust has collaborated with her husband Craig McCracken on his four animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Wander Over Yonder, and Kid Cosmic.
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Chris Lemmon

50. Chris Lemmon

1954-. (aged 72)
film actor actor television actor
Christopher Boyd Lemmon is an American actor and author.
Craig McCracken

51. Craig McCracken

1971-. (aged 55)
cartoonist screenwriter television director animator television producer
Craig McCracken is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Disney Channel and Disney XD's Wander Over Yonder, and Netflix's Kid Cosmic.
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Mageina Tovah

52. Mageina Tovah

1979-. (aged 47)
television actor film director actor film actor
Mageina Tovah is an American actress. She had roles as Glynis Figliola in the television series Joan of Arcadia, as Ursula Ditkovich in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 and Zelda Schiff, the head librarian in The Magicians.
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Butch Hartman

53. Butch Hartman

1965-. (aged 61)
film director podcaster animator film producer screenwriter
Elmer Earl "Butch " Hartman IV is an American animator, illustrator, writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the animated television shows The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast for Nickelodeon. He founded the company Billionfold Inc. in 2003 to produce the shows. Hartman was an executive producer on The...
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J. G. Quintel

54. J. G. Quintel

1982-. (aged 44)
actor screenwriter television producer voice actor animator
James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He created the Cartoon Network series Regular Show, in which he voiced Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the HBO Max series Close Enough (2020–2022), in which he voiced Josh.
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Peter Sohn

55. Peter Sohn

1977-. (aged 49)
film director animator actor director voice actor
Peter Sohn is an American filmmaker, animator, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar, including directing the short film Partly Cloudy (2009) and the feature films The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Elemental (2023), the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He also voiced Emile in Ratatouille...
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Pendleton Ward

56. Pendleton Ward

1982-. (aged 44)
film director actor animator television producer voice actor
Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston, known professionally as Pendleton Ward, is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor who has worked for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios, and Netflix Animation. He created the television series Adventure Time, the web series Bravest Warriors, and the adult animated interview streaming series The Midnight Gospel.
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Chris Sanders

57. Chris Sanders

1962-. (aged 64)
illustrator character designer director screenwriter animator
Christopher Michael Sanders is an American filmmaker, animator, writer, storyboard artist and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The Croods (2013) with Kirk DeMicco; and The Wild Robot (2024), receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for...
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Ariel Pink

58. Ariel Pink

1978-. (aged 48)
composer singer-songwriter guitarist musician
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, professionally known as Ariel Pink, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose work draws heavily from the popular music of the 1960s–1980s. His lo-fi aesthetic and home-recorded albums proved influential to many indie musicians starting in the late 2000s. He is frequently cited as the "godfather" of the hypnagogic pop and chillwave movements, and he is...
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Andrew Stanton

59. Andrew Stanton

1965-. (aged 61)
film director director actor animator voice actor
Andrew Ayers Stanton is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008), and Finding Dory (2016). He also directed and co-wrote the live-action film John Carter (2012) for Walt Disney Pictures and directed the live-action film In the Blink of an Eye...
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Henry Selick

60. Henry Selick

1952-. (aged 74)
screenwriter director film director animator film producer
Charles Henry Selick Jr. is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his work in stop-motion animation and for directing the films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Monkeybone (2001), Coraline (2009), and Wendell & Wild (2022). Selick is also known for his collaborations with the late voice actor and artist Joe Ranft....
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Alex Hirsch

61. Alex Hirsch

1985-. (aged 41)
television writer television producer actor animator writer
Alexander Hirsch is an American animator, writer, producer, and voice actor. He created the Disney Channel and Disney XD animated series Gravity Falls, and voiced its characters Grunkle Stan, Soos Ramirez, and Bill Cipher, among others. The show has won several BAFTA and Annie Awards.
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Laraine Newman

62. Laraine Newman

1952-. (aged 74)
stage actor television actor writer voice actor film actor
Laraine Newman is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Newman was part of the original cast of NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980.
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Michael Cudlitz

63. Michael Cudlitz

1964-. (aged 62)
television actor film director television director actor voice actor
Michael Cudlitz is an American actor known for portraying John Cooper in the NBC/TNT drama series Southland (2009–2013) for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013, Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), and Sergeant Abraham Ford in the AMC horror series The Walking...
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Eliza Coupe

64. Eliza Coupe

1981-. (aged 45)
film actor actor television actor
Eliza Coupe is an American actress, comedian and model, known for playing Jane Kerkovich-Williams in the ABC comedy series Happy Endings, Denise "Jo" Mahoney in the final two seasons of the medical comedy-drama Scrubs, her starring role as Tiger on the Hulu comedy series Future Man, and her recurring role as Hannah Wyland in Quantico. She starred in the Fox...
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Cecily Strong

65. Cecily Strong

1984-. (aged 42)
actor comedian television actor
Cecily Legler Strong is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022. She is the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history.
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John Lasseter

66. John Lasseter

1957-. (aged 69)
film producer executive producer film director film editor animator
John Alan Lasseter is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, and has served as the head of animation at Skydance Animation since 2019.
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Brad Bird

67. Brad Bird

1957-. (aged 69)
film producer film director animator actor director
Philip Bradley Bird is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late...
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Alexandra Breckenridge

68. Alexandra Breckenridge

1982-. (aged 44)
film actor television actor voice actor
Alexandra Breckenridge is an American actress. She began her career with supporting roles in the teen comedy films Big Fat Liar (2002) and She's the Man (2006). She later played reporter Willa McPherson in the FX series Dirt and had a supporting role in the short-lived series The Ex List. She starred as a young Moira O'Hara in the first...
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Stephen Hillenburg

69. Stephen Hillenburg

1961-2018 (aged 57)
television producer biologist cartoonist animator voice actor
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American animator, writer, producer, director, voice actor, and marine biology educator. He was best known for creating the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants for Nickelodeon in 1999. The show has become the fourth longest-running American animated series. He also provided the original voice of Patchy the Pirate's pet, Potty the Parrot.
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Sofia Coppola

70. Sofia Coppola

1971-. (aged 55)
photographer film actor film director actor director
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Katey Sagal

71. Katey Sagal

1954-. (aged 72)
actor television actor singer-songwriter film actor voice actor
Katey Sagal is an American actress, songwriter and singer. She is known for playing Peg Bundy on Married... with Children (1987–1997) for which she was thrice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Turanga Leela on Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Gemma Teller Morrow on the...
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Don Cheadle

72. Don Cheadle

1964-. (aged 62)
film director writer film producer actor film actor
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. is an American actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received multiple accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of a few actors to have received nominations...
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Tim Burton

73. Tim Burton

1958-. (aged 68)
designer actor director writer film producer
Timothy Walter Burton is an American filmmaker, animator, and writer. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blends gothic horror and dark fantasy aesthetics with whimsical and surreal elements. He has received numerous accolades, including one Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three...
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Eric Darnell

74. Eric Darnell

1961-. (aged 65)
film director actor animator television producer voice actor
Eric Darnell is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, screenwriter, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing and co-writing Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted with Tom McGrath, as well as the spin off Penguins of Madagascar (2014) with Simon J. Smith. Darnell now serves...
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Brenda Chapman

75. Brenda Chapman

1962-. (aged 64)
actor screenwriter storyboard artist animator film director
Brenda Chapman is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director. In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt. In 2012, she directed the Disney/Pixar film Brave with Mark Andrews (and co-direction from Steve Purcell), becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best...
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Kathy Baker

76. Kathy Baker

1950-. (aged 76)
film actor television actor stage actor
Katherine Whitton Baker is an American actress. Baker began her career in theater and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film The Right Stuff. She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in Street Smart (1987). Baker also has appeared in over 50 films,...
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Sam Doumit

77. Sam Doumit

1975-. (aged 51)
film actor television actor stage actor
Samia "Sam" Doumit is an American actress.
Deborah Joy Winans

78. Deborah Joy Winans

1983-. (aged 43)
actor television actor stage actor
Deborah Joy Winans is an American actress and singer, and member of the musical Winans family. She starred as Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf.
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David Hasselhoff

79. David Hasselhoff

1952-. (aged 74)
businessperson film actor television producer voice actor stage actor
David Michael Hasselhoff, nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He has set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (1975–1982), playing the role of Dr. Snapper Foster. His career continued with his leading role as Michael Knight on...
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Pete Docter

80. Pete Docter

1968-. (aged 58)
film producer screenwriter executive producer voice actor animator
Peter Hans Docter is an American director and animator. He has served as chief creative officer (CCO) of Pixar since 2018. He has directed the company's animated films Monsters, Inc. (2001), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Soul (2020). From his nine Academy Award nominations, he is a record three-time recipient of Best Animated Feature for Up, Inside Out and...
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Paul Reubens

81. Paul Reubens

1952-2023 (aged 71)
television producer television director video game actor voice actor film screenwriter
Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.
James Mangold

82. James Mangold

1963-. (aged 63)
film screenwriter film producer film director actor director
James Allen Mangold is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy (1995), and gained recognition for the films Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Identity (2003), Walk the Line (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Knight and Day (2010), and two...
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Lorne Lanning

83. Lorne Lanning

1964-. (aged 62)
writer voice actor film director video game developer
Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, director, writer and voice actor. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! and Oddworld: Soulstorm.
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Natalia Cordova-Buckley

84. Natalia Cordova-Buckley

1982-. (aged 44)
film actor actor television actor
Natalia Cordova-Buckley is a Mexican-American actress. She is best known for starring as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez / Slingshot in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
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Julie Taymor

85. Julie Taymor

1952-. (aged 74)
film director director costume designer scenographer film producer
Julie Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design. Her 2002 film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song...
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Diona Reasonover

86. Diona Reasonover

1992-. (aged 34)
screenwriter television actor film director actor
Diona Reasonover is an American actress. She starred as Charmaine Eskowitz in the television show Clipped, and since 2018 has portrayed Kasie Hines in the crime drama series NCIS.
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Bill Irwin

87. Bill Irwin

1950-. (aged 76)
television actor mime artist theatrical director clown playwright
William Mills Irwin is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
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Mike Mitchell

88. Mike Mitchell

1970-. (aged 56)
screenwriter director film director animator voice actor
Michael Mitchell is an American former professional football player who was a safety for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio Bobcats and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. Mitchell spent four seasons each with the Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers, in addition to...
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Mark Andrews

89. Mark Andrews

1968-. (aged 58)
screenwriter director voice actor storyboard artist animator
Mark Andrews is an American professional football tight end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and was selected by the Ravens in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft. Andrews has been elected to the Pro Bowl three times and was named to the 2021 All-Pro Team...
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Ed Harris

90. Ed Harris

1950-. (aged 76)
film director director television actor voice actor theatrical director
Edward Allen Harris is an American actor and filmmaker. Harris received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), and The Hours (2002). He also directed and starred in Pollock (2000) and Appaloosa (2008), the former earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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James Lapine

91. James Lapine

1949-. (aged 77)
television director film director director librettist music director
James Elliot Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
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Kelly Asbury

92. Kelly Asbury

1960-2020 (aged 60)
character designer concept artist film director animator actor
Kelly Adam Asbury was an American film director, writer, voice actor, and illustrator. He was best known for directing the animated films Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), Shrek 2 (2004), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017), and UglyDolls (2019).
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Tom McGrath

93. Tom McGrath

1964-. (aged 62)
film actor film director animator actor television producer
Thomas McGrath is an American voice actor, animator and filmmaker. He is known for the DreamWorks animated film Madagascar, which he co-wrote and directed with Eric Darnell while voicing the character of Skipper the Penguin. The film spawned two direct sequels, along with a spin-off animated series and film based on the penguins, with McGrath reprising his role as Skipper...
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Michael Richards

94. Michael Richards

1949-. (aged 77)
voice actor actor comedian television actor film producer
Michael Anthony Richards is an American actor and comedian. He achieved global recognition for starring as Cosmo Kramer on the NBC television sitcom Seinfeld from 1989 to 1998. He began his career as a stand-up comedian, first entering the national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special, and went on to become a series regular...
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Sharon Robinson

95. Sharon Robinson

1953-. (aged 73)
singer singer-songwriter writer composer record producer
Sharon Robinson is an American singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. She is best known for frequent writing and collaborating with Leonard Cohen, although she has written songs for a number of other artists including The Pointer Sisters, Aaron Neville, Brenda Russell, Diana Ross, Don Henley, Michael Bolton, Randy Crawford, Patti LaBelle, Roberta Flack, The Temptations, Bettye LaVette, and others.
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Tom Lin Shu-yu

96. Tom Lin Shu-yu

1976-. (aged 50)
film director screenwriter
Thomas Lin Shu-yu is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. After the critical success of his first two features, Winds of September (2008), for which he won Best Original Screenplay at the 45th Golden Horse Awards, and Starry Starry Night (2011), he has been considered a leading filmmaker of his generation. His films often deal with autobiographical elements.
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Kolleen Park

97. Kolleen Park

1967-. (aged 59)
conductor singer actor music director
Kolleen Park is an American-born South Korean-Lithuanian musical director, conductor, and actress, and is also a judge on the Korean talent show Korea's Got Talent.
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Maneesh Sharma

98. Maneesh Sharma

1973-. (aged 53)
film director dancer director actor film producer
Maneesh Sharma is an Indian filmmaker who is known for his work in Hindi films. He has directed films such as Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011), Shuddh Desi Romance (2013), and Fan (2016).
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Alison Brie

99. Alison Brie

1982-. (aged 44)
stage actor television director actor voice actor film producer
Alison Brie Schermerhorn is an American actress, writer, and producer.
Douglas Rushkoff

100. Douglas Rushkoff

1961-. (aged 65)
journalist writer
Douglas Mark Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, professor, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, documentarian and podcaster. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems, his critique of technocapitalism, and his call to retrieve our humanity in a digital age.
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