# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-wedge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:37:46.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-wedge"
name: "Chris Wedge"
slug: "chris-wedge"
description: "John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). He also directed the live-action film Monster Trucks (2016). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–present)."
tagline: "American animator, director, producer, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Wedge_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
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birthDate: "1957-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump