# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-kruse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:01:12.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-kruse"
name: "Nancy Kruse"
slug: "nancy-kruse"
description: "Nancy Kruse is a former animation director on The Simpsons. She started working on the show during the first season as a background clean-up artist. After that she did background layout and character layout for several years on the show before becoming an assistant director. She began directing during season 10 and left the show at the end of season 21 with the season 22 holdover MoneyBART. She was also a story artist on the movie Zootopia and one of the head of story for 2021 Oscar winning movie Encanto."
tagline: "Animation director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zKlIcEA0AAlN7QKkUEhGVBOt78U.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.58
  momentum:             1.607142857142857
  historical:           6.342153333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472866/"
    handle:    "nm0472866"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "نانسي كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223634"
    title: "Nancy Kruse"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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