Kyle Balda

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1971-03-09 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Kyle Balda

Biography

Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) 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 Pixar, where he worked on three of their films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyle Balda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2022

Minions: The Rise of Gru

as Additional Voices (voice)

2015

Minions

as Additional Voices (voice)

2017

Despicable Me 3

as Additional Voices (voice)

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My Life On Mars

as (voice)

Production

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Animation

2010

Banana

as Director

2010

Home Makeover

as Director

2010

Orientation Day

as Director

2015

Minions

as Director

2015

Competition

as Director

2012

Serenade

as Director

2012

Forces of Nature

as Director

2012

Wagon Ho!

as Director

1996

Mars Attacks!

as Animation

1994

The Mask

as Animation

1995

Jumanji

as Animation Supervisor

1998

A Bug's Life

as Animation

2017

Despicable Me 3

as Director

2016

Weenie

as Director

1999

Toy Story 2

as Animation Director

2012

The Lorax

as Co-Director

1994

Sleepy Guy

as Animation

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