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Home/People/Kyle Balda
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Born
Mar 9, 1971
Age 55
Place of Birth
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

5
Movies
0
TV Shows
16
Directed
Also Known As
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IMDb Profile

Kyle Balda

Directing

Biography
Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) 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 previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar, where he worked on three of their films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyle Balda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Minions: The Rise of Gru poster

Minions: The Rise of Gru

as Additional Voices (voice)
2022
Despicable Me 3 poster

Despicable Me 3

as Additional Voice (voice)
2017
Minions poster

Minions

as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
The Making of 'The Frighteners' poster

The Making of 'The Frighteners'

as Self
1998
My Life On Mars poster

My Life On Mars

as (voice)
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