# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darrell-rooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:31.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darrell-rooney"
name: "Darrell Rooney"
slug: "darrell-rooney"
description: "Darrell Rooney is a Canadian animator, storyboard artist, and director for The Walt Disney Company, best known for directing The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) and Mulan II (2004) at Disneytoon Studios. He started at Disney in 1978, and worked as a visual effects animator on Tron (1982)."
tagline: "Canadian animator, storyboard artist, and director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             0.01814882032667877
  historical:           5.686538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740311/"
    handle:    "nm0740311"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Rooney"
    title: "Darrell Rooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "داريل روني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "داريل رونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%94%E7%BE%85%C2%B7%E7%9B%A7%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "達羅·盧尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Rooney"
    title: "Darrell Rooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Rooney"
    title: "Darrell Rooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3016482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump