# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyle-balda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:48:20.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyle-balda"
name: "Kyle Balda"
slug: "kyle-balda"
description: "Kyle Balda 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 also directed the live-action film The Sheep Detectives (2026). He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar where he worked on three of their films."
tagline: "American animator and film director (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kyle_Balda_2015_AIAFF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.19
  momentum:             3.587570621468925
  historical:           9.918292000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049633/"
    handle:    "nm0049633"
sources:
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    title: "كيل بالدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Balda"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Balda"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Balda"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Balda"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80"
    title: "カイル・バルダ"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Balda"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%88%D8%A7"
    title: "کائل بالڈا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8023"
    title: "Kyle Balda"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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