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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.

Mireille Soria

Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Home, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Mireille Soria (born April 22, 1970) is an American film producer, most notable for working at DreamWorks Animation on many of their films and for producing the animated sitcom Neighbors from Hell. She produced Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Madagascar and its sequels Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Home, and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. After DreamWorks saw a series of financially disappointing films, DreamWorks Animation named Soria co-president of feature animation in early 2015. Along with Bonnie Arnold, she was tasked with overseeing the creative development and production of DWA's theatrical releases. However, in December 2016, Soria stepped down from her role as co-president of feature animation at DWA and returned to producing. In July 2017, Soria was hired by Paramount to be the president of its animation division, Paramount Animation. She was replaced in that role by Ramsey Ann Naito in September 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mireille Soria, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Conrad Vernon

Cast · Executive Producer · Known for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Shrek, Shrek 2

Conrad Vernon (born July 11, 1968) is an American voice actor, director, producer, writer, and storyboard artist best known for his work on the DreamWorks animated film series Shrek as well as other films such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and Penguins of Madagascar. He also co-directed non-DreamWorks animated films such as Sony Pictures' Sausage Party and MGM's The Addams Family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Conrad Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Francesca Fanti

Cast · Known for Luca

Francesca Fanti was chosen by Francis Ford Coppola to play the leading role of Filomena Corrado in Distant Vision (2016), a live cinema experimental production directed by Coppola as a month-long project at UCLA. Francesca presented the bold one-woman comedy show "Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo," (written by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Franca Rame), and won the ADA Artistic Director Achievement Award for Best Actress in a Comedy in Los Angeles first, then The Bay Area Critics Award for Best Solo Performance in San Francisco where the show was critically acclaimed, sold out and extended for months. In Italy, Francesca worked with American character actor Vincent Schiavelli, presenting the show "Cc'era 'Na Vota" in Sicilian dialect (not her own) to audiences in Sicily. She also starred in the very popular Italian TV show "La Squadra" and worked with director Carlo Carlei on the TV movie "Ferrari". Milestone Italian writer Dacia Maraini invited Francesca to perform her work in Italy after seeing Francesca's sterling performance of the drama one-woman show "Letters of Love" in Los Angeles. Francesca later on brought Maraini's controversial play "Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client" to critically acclaimed performances in Pasadena and she has written a film adaptation of this play. She is also developing two other projects: "Dating Valentina" (a comedy about divorce, single parenting and online dating debut) and "Missing Michael H." (a drama based on the true story of a friend who recently went missing). She can be seen in the FX TV show "American Crime Story - The Assassination of Gianni Versace" (episode #8) in the role of Franca Versace, mom of Gianni. Also in Bryan Singer's critically acclaimed digital web series "H+" (2012-2013) in the leading role of Simona Rossi and in Nine (2009) opposite Daniel Day Lewis. A versatile actor, Fanti has provided voice work for many projects including "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" (2012) and has appeared in numerous national commercials with such celebrities as Herb Ritts, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna and Bob Richardson.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Cast · Known for Collateral, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Matrix Revolutions

Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby, and she featured opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996). She starred in dramatic films such as Menace II Society (1993) and Set It Off (1996). She has appeared in more than 20 films in a variety of genres, including Scream 2, Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Pinkett Smith launched her music career in 2002, when she helped create the metal band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is a singer and songwriter. Smith also created a production company, in addition to authoring a book, published in 2004. In 1997, she married rapper and actor Will Smith. They have two children, Jaden and Willow, and Pinkett Smith is stepmother to Willard "Trey" Smith III, Will's son from a previous marriage. The couple founded the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, a charity organization which focuses on inner-city youth and family support and has worked with non-profit organizations like YouthBuild and the Lupus Foundation of America.

John Cramer

John Cramer (born July 3, 1955) is an American voice actor, announcer and narrator. He has worked on promos, commercials and animation. He worked as the announcer on TV shows such as Before They Were Stars and Politically Incorrect for ABC, Meet My Folks and Who Wants to Marry My Dad for NBC as well as Trivia Unwrapped for Food Network. He is the announcer on Most Outrageous Moments for NBC and The Planet’s Funniest Animals for Animal Planet. He is the announcer for the MTV Movie Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, and has provided his voice as the announcer on The Emmy Awards as well as Fox News' The Half Hour News Hour. His voice can be heard periodically in fake promo sketches featured on The Jimmy Kimmel Show and Real Time with Bill Maher. He announced the 1992 CBS game show The Hollywood Game, as well as Big Deal for Fox. He did voice-over work for Game Show Network in 1996 and 1997. He announced on The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, he announced on the short-lived 2000 revival of the game show Twenty One. He has also worked on other game shows including Pyramid with Donny Osmond, The Weakest Link and Pet Star. Since 2011, he was one of the guest announcers for Wheel of Fortune. He announced for the third (final) season of Nickelodeon's game show BrainSurge, entitled Family Brainsurge. John Cramer is also the announcer for Funny You Should Ask, We the People with Gloria Allred, as well as general announcing duties for nearly all the other productions of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios. Cramer works on many animation projects, too. For Dreamworks, he worked on Shrek, Spirit, Madagascar, and Over the Hedge. For Disney, his work includes Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Aladdin, Tarzan, The Lion King, and Lilo & Stitch. He also worked on re-releases of Disney classics such as Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty. He has also worked on The Emoji Movie, as well as TV series including Rugrats and The Annoying Orange. He has voiced video game characters. For the 2006 video game Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate, he voiced Laszlo, Markal and Cyrus. For the 2007 video game Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, he voiced Agrael. He has done promo work for several cable networks including The History Channel, Discovery Channel, USA, Comedy Central, Spike TV and the Food Network. He is the promo voice of TVG, an interactive horse racing network. Portions of this are shown on Fox Sportsnet all across the country. Cramer also lent his talent as the announcer on specials such as Miss USA and Miss Universe, both on NBC and the auto award show Auto Rox for SpikeTV. Cramer has been the longtime the voice of CBS2 in Los Angeles and recently started working for KESQ NewsChannel 3 in Palm Springs, an ABC affiliate and the #1 rated station in the market. He has done numerous radio imaging jobs throughout his career. His imaging for Classical 103.5 WGMS in Washington, D.C. helped that station become the #1 station in their market, which is unheard of for a classical station. Commercially, Cramer has been heard on campaigns for Acura, Conagra/Kid Cuisine, Budweiser, Mattel/Hot Wheels, Wendy’s, Jack in the Box and Wal-mart, among others. He works extensively for DirecTV, in both on air and radio spots.

Etan Cohen

Writer · Known for Idiocracy, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Men in Black 3

Etan Cohen is an Israeli-American screenwriter and film director, best known for writing the scripts to Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Men in Black 3.

Terrence Little Gardenhigh

Terrence Little Gardenhigh is one of the hardest working young adults in Show Business today. Currently Terrence has four series airing (various platforms), and his fifth about to air... Fright Krewe (Dreamworks animated series on Hulu and Peacock) with Terrence starring as "Pat". This series follows an unlikely group of misfit teens who through an ancient prophecy and a Voodoo Queen has been put in charge of saving the world from the biggest demonic threat it's faced in almost two centuries, Danger Force now in its third season on Nickelodeon Terrence stars as Miles/AWOL in Nickelodeon's hit series, Danger Force, is a spin-off of Henry Danger. Season 3 launched with a two-partner picking up from season two, with Cooper Barnes as Captain Man, Michael D. Cohen as Schwoz and the other superheroes kids, Chapa, Mika and Bose. FYI: Danger Force season two ranked as the #1 live action cable program for kids 6-11, and ranks #1 in its Thursday premiere time slot! Terrence made his motion picture debut as the lead in the Netflix original movie Coffee & Kareem opposite Ed Helm. Along with Taraji P. Henson, Betty Gilpin and David Alan Grier. The film centers around a twelve-year-old Kareem Manning (Terrence) who hires a criminal to scare his mom's new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee - but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit's most ruthless drug kingpin. His credits include the ABC series Speechless, Disney Channel's Just Roll with It, and the Nickelodeon series' All That, Side Hustle and Henry Danger, and his award winning short Turtle (Bruno). Terrence has three animated series currently airing where his voice is heard; Ada Twist: Scientist for Netflix (executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama) Terrence plays Arthur Twist, Ada's 11-year-old brother who loves magic and sports, Madagascar: A Little Wild for Hulu (portraying Ronathan), Firebuds (Flash Fireson) for Disney Junior. He is now recording his fifth series in a new untitled animated series for Paramount +. He was born in North Carolina and raised in Olympia, WA, Little Gardenhigh began his career at the age of eight doing commercials for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and his commercial Nintendo TV spot is everywhere. When not acting, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing sports like basketball, football, skateboarding. Terrence has over a combined Five Hundred Fifty thousand followers on social media platforms. He lives with his mother in Los Angeles.

Pasquale Anselmo

Pasquale Anselmo (born 14 April 1958) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Cosenza, Anselmo attended the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and made light appearances on stage, film and television. He is better known as a voice dubber and is the official Italian voice of Nicolas Cage. Other actors Anselmo dubs includes John Turturro, David Koechner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Woody Harrelson, Clark Gregg and more. Some of Anselmo's popular dubbing roles include Phil Coulson (portrayed by Clark Gregg) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jimmy McGill (portrayed by Bob Odenkirk) in Better Call Saul and Vic Mackey (portrayed by Michael Chiklis) in The Shield. In Anselmo's animated roles, he took over as the Italian voice of Waylon Smithers in The Simpsons since the death of Vittorio Amandola in 2010. He also dubbed Rico in the Madagascar franchise and Pepé the King Prawn in The Muppets since 2005. Source: Article "Pasquale Anselmo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Madagascar

2005

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.

Penguins of Madagascar

2014

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

The Penguins of Madagascar

2008

The adventures of four penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico, who perform various commando-like missions to protect their home in the Central Park Zoo. The penguins often have to deal with problems caused, or made worse, by their zoo neighbors, King Julien XIII (a ring-tailed lemur), Maurice (an aye-aye), and Mort (a mouse lemur).

Susan Fitzer

Cast · Known for Penguins of Madagascar

Susan Fitzer is known for Penguins of Madagascar (2014), Flushed Away (2006) and Turbo (2013).

Ant Ward

Producer · Known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ant Ward is known for his work on The Penguins of Madagascar (2008), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018).

Christopher Knights

Cast · Known for Penguins of Madagascar, Shrek, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor and camera operator best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar. He worked on several DreamWorks films Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and Shrek 4-D. He started his filming career at Amblimation studios and worked on We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and Balto. When he joined DreamWorks he did not only start his editing career but his acting career. He worked on Shrek Forever After as Associate Editor and voice of the Three Blind Mice. He worked many times with another English cameraman and voice actor, Simon J. Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia Christopher Knights licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tom McGrath

Cast · Known for Penguins of Madagascar, The Penguins of Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Thomas "Tom" McGrath (born August 7, 1965) is an American voice actor and animator who co-directed (with Eric Darnell) the 2005 feature Madagascar and its sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008. He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks animated features like Flushed Away in 2006 and Shrek the Third in 2007. He also stepped in on Flushed Away to help make improvements prior to its release. McGrath's experience in both television and feature animation includes work as an animator on Ralph Bakshi's film Cool World (starring Brad Pitt), storyboard artist and director for the popular series The Ren and Stimpy Show, animator on the Joe Pytka-directed Space Jam (starring Michael Jordan), and storyboard artist on the live-action film Cats & Dogs and worked as storyboard artist and concept artist/prop and set designer for How the Grinch Stole Christmas (directed by Ron Howard). McGrath made his film directing debut as the co-director and co-writer of Madagascar where he also created the memorable squad of penguin characters and voiced their leader, Skipper. He also reprised his role as Skipper and co-directed and co-wrote the sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. He worked on The Penguins of Madagascar, a Madagascar spin-off TV series, as the voice of Skipper, and directed the DreamWorks animated feature Megamind (starring Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and David Cross), released in November 2010. McGrath was raised in Lynnwood, Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom McGrath (animator), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Faly Rakotohavana

Faly Rakotohavana was born on April 26th, 2003 at Antananarivo, Madagascar. He is a professional Malagasy-American actor, who is best known for his starring role as Finn in the Hulu comedy series UnPrisoned (2023) and as Prince Matteo in the Disney+ original film Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020).

Lorne Balfe

Composer · Known for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Bad Boys for Life, Ghost in the Shell

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores.  A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Balfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Eric Darnell

Cast · Director · Creator · Known for Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Eric Darnell (born August 21, 1961) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for the Madagascar saga. He now works for Baobab Studio.

Kelly Cooney Cilella

Cast · Known for Shrek 2, The Bad Guys, Penguins of Madagascar

Kelly Cooney Cilella was born on June 18, 1976 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is a producer, known for Penguins of Madagascar (2014), Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) and Shrek The Third (2007).

Tucker Chandler

Tucker Chandler is an American actor. He is best known for his work on I Lost My Body (2019), Samsam (2019), and Madagascar: A Little Wild (2020).

David Soren

Cast · Known for Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Shark Tale

David I. Soren is a director, writer, and actor known for Captain Underpants (2017), Turbo (2013), and Merry Madagascar (2009). A DreamWorks veteran of twenty years, Soren has worked as a story artist on "The Road to El Dorado," "Chicken Run" and "Shrek." He then served as the head of story on the hit animated comedy, "Shark Tale." Soren joined DreamWorks after graduating from Sheridan College, located near his hometown of Toronto, Canada. Father of Coco Soren

Januel Mercado

Cast · Known for The Croods: A New Age, Forgotten Island

Januel Patricio Mercado (born November 23, 1984) is a Filipino-American feature animation director, storyboard artist, and writer. A San Jose State University graduate, he has been with DreamWorks Animation since 2008. He started as a story artist on Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and contributed to Turbo (2013), Penguins of Madagascar (2014), and Trolls (2016). Mercado made his co-directorial debut on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) alongside Joel Crawford, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA.