Kelly Asbury
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Kelly Adam Asbury (born January 15, 1960) is an American animated film producer, screenwriter, voice actor, and illustrator of children's books.
Shrek 2 and Gnomeo & Juliet are two of his best-known animated films.
Early life
Asbury was born in 1960 Beaumont, Texas, the son of Josephine Margaret (Lebeouf) and Donald Leslie Asbury. When Asbury was 12 years old, his father, Donald, died of cancer. He attended Lamar University for two years before transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts in 1980, where he concentrated on animation and filmmaking.
Career
Asbury earned his start at Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1983 to 1995, as well as Pixar's debut feature film Toy Story. He was the assistant art director on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993.
He began directing two Academy Award-nominated feature films, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Shrek 2 (2004). In addition to directing, he provided some of the extra voices in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.
He produced and co-wrote Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), which also provided the voices of the tiny Red Goon Gnomes. He was shortlisted for two Annie Awards for his role as both producer and co-writer of the film.
In 2003, he published Dummy Days, a non-fiction book about five twentieth-century ventriloquists, a non-fiction book. He wrote and illustrated twelve children's books, including Rusty's Red Vacation, Bonnie's Blue House, and Yolanda's Yellow School.
Asbury returned to Disney in mid-2011 to mid-2012 to contribute storyboards to Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen. Smurfs: The Lost Village for Sony Pictures Animation and UglyDolls for STX Entertainment were his last filming credits.