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Raymond Saharath Persi (born February 17, 1975) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has directed many episodes of The Simpsons, including "Mobile Homer", "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", "The Monkey Suit", "Little Big Girl", "24 Minutes", "Love, Springfieldian Style" and the Emmy Award-winning "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". Persi went on to work as a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie (2007).
Outside of his Simpsons work, Persi co-directed Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records). The video won the "Best Animated Music Video" award at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject. Raymond also created the character and performance "RayRay".
In 2010, Persi moved from Film Roman to Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked extensively on Academy Award nominee Wreck-It Ralph (2012). In addition to serving as storyboard artist, he had a prominent acting role in the film as Gene, leader of the Nicelanders whom Wreck-It Ralph is programmed to antagonize. Persi also voices the Zombie from The House of the Dead in a scene where Ralph joins other video game villains at a support group meeting.
Persi has become a mainstay with Disney, providing additional voices and storyboard work for Frozen (2013), as well as the voice of Flash Slothmore and Officer Higgins in Zootopia (2016).
Persi is part-Thai on his mother's side. Saharath, Persi's middle name, is used in the credits for "Love, Springfieldian Style".
Filmography
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) – Voice of Gene and Zombie
Get a Horse! (2013) – Voice of Pete's Car Horn
Frozen (2013) – Additional Voices
Zootopia (2016) – Voice of Flash and Officer Higgins
Inner Workings (2016) – Voice of Stomach and Monk
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) – Voice of Gene
Santa's Little Helpers (2019) – Voice of Head Elf
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) - Voice of Birthday Boy
Zootopia+ (2022) – Voice of Flash (Episode: "Dinner Rush")
Once Upon a Studio (2023) – Voice of Flash
Simpsons episodes directed by Persi
= Season 16
=Mobile Homer
= Season 17
=The Girl Who Slept Too Little
The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
The Monkey Suit
= Season 18
=Little Big Girl
24 Minutes
= Season 19
=Love, Springfieldian Style
= Season 20
=Lost Verizon
Four Great Women and a Manicure
= Season 21
=The Color Yellow
Accolades
References
External links
Raymond S. Persi at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Raymond Persi
- Little Big Girl
- Extinct (film)
- The Simpsons (musim 17)
- The Simpsons (musim 20)
- The Simpsons (musim 18)
- The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
- Love, Springfieldian Style
- Mobile Homer
- The Monkey Suit
- Raymond S. Persi
- Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie
- Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin
- Mobile Homer
- Persi
- Extinct (film)
- List of The Simpsons episodes (seasons 1–20)
- Inner Workings
- List of characters in the Zootopia franchise
- Little Big Girl