# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-meledandri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:56.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-meledandri"
name: "Chris Meledandri"
slug: "chris-meledandri"
description: "Christopher Meledandri is an American film producer and founder and CEO of Illumination. He previously served as president of 20th Century Fox Animation, working as the executive producer for the Blue Sky Studios-produced films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). Since 2010, he has worked as the producer for the film series of Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, and Sing. In 2021, he joined Nintendo's board of directors after working with the video game company on The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). Meledandri also collaborates with Illumination's corporate sibling DreamWorks Animation since 2016."
tagline: "American film producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Meledandri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.67837338262477
  historical:           19.254788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577560/"
    handle:    "nm0577560"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump