Chris Renaud
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The ThumbScore for Chris Renaud (77.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 4 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Chris's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Chris Renaud (born December 1966) is an American filmmaker, designer, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Illumination, including directing the company's animated films such as the first, second, and fourth films in the Despicable Me franchise (2010–present), the first two of which he co-directed with Pierre Coffin, The Lorax (2012), The Secret Life of Pets (2016) and its sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019). He also voiced the Minions in the first two films in the Despicable Me franchise and Norman in The Secret Life of Pets franchise, the former which he co-created with Coffin. Renaud received nominations for two Academy Awards for the Ice Age short film No Time for Nuts (2006) and Despicable Me 2 (2013).
Renaud was born in December 1966, in Baltimore. At age 15, he moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania when his father, who worked for Bethlehem Steel, was transferred to their corporate headquarters. Renaud has said he had mixed feelings with the move, saying it upset him but it was also one of the best things in his life because it showed him "that there was a great, big world out there." He attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, where he was the artist for the high school yearbooks and newspaper and had aspirations of creating comic books and graduated in 1985. He then attended the Baum School of Art in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he received a $1,000 scholarship. In 1989, he graduated from Syracuse University with an illustration degree.
Born 1966-12-05 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
On ThumbScore, Chris Renaud appears in 5 films with an average audience score of 77.8%, most frequently in the Family genre.
