Kyle Balda
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican animator and film director (born 1971)
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.
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Filmography 19
The Sheep Detectives
Minions
Minions: The Rise of Gru
The Lorax
Despicable Me 3
Minions & More 2
Minions & More Volume 1
Banana
Home Makeover
Orientation Day
Competition
Weenie
Forces of Nature
Wagon Ho!
Serenade
The Making of 'The Frighteners'
Illumination Presents: 10 Minion Mini-Movies
Bananarama - Video Collection 1982-2009
My Life On Mars31 credits on file
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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.
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