Mike Judge is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, director and producer
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Mike Judge is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, director and producer
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In 1989, Mike Judge married Francesca Morocco and they had two children, Julia Judge and Lily Judge. The couple later parted ways.
In 2007, he had a son, Charles Judge, with actress Katrina Holden Bronson.
Mike Judge was born to librarian Margaret Blue and archaeologist Jim Judge on 17th October 1962 at Guayaquil, Ecuador. He was the second of the couple’s three children.
He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and completed his school education from the St. Pius X High School. In 1986, Mike Judge graduated from the University of California in San Diego with a degree in Physics.
After completing his graduation, Mike Judge pursued his first occupation as a programmer for the F/A-18 Hornet fighter at Support Systems Inc. In 1987, he shifted to Texas to work with a video graphics startup named Parallax Graphics, based in Santa Clara. However, he felt uncomfortable with the office setup and quit within a short period.
Thereafter he went on to pursue music and became a bass player with a ‘Blues’ band. He was associated with the team for two years. However, he realised that his passion lies in animation. In 1989, Mike Judge began making short animation cartoons that were then sent to several channels.
In 1991 he got the opportunity to visit the Dallas Animation Festival. Post the event his short film titled ‘Office Space’ was picked up by television channel Comedy Central.
The next year his short film ‘Frog Baseball’ featuring two characters named Beavis and Butt-head. This short was the base to an animated series titled ‘Beavis and Butt-head series’, which was eventually showed on MTV in 1993 around these characters. This is regarded as the first major break in his animation career.
The series ran for four years till 1997 and went on air for a year in 2011 once again. In 1996, a feature film based on the ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ animation series was created with the title ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do America’.
Mike Judge is popular for his works on animation including television series and feature films. His best known works include ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’and ‘King of the Hill’. Other major work includes television sitcom ‘Silicon Valley’.