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Glenn Berger

Writer · Known for Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 4

Glenn Todd Berger (born August 26, 1969, in Smithtown, New York) is an American screenwriter and producer, who is best known for writing the Kung Fu Panda movies, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Trolls, and its sequel, Trolls World Tour, with screenwriter and producer Jonathan Aibel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jonathan Aibel

Writer · Known for Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 4

Jonathan Robert Aibel (born August 6, 1969, in Demarest, New Jersey) is an American screenwriter and producer, who is best known for writing the Kung Fu Panda movies, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Trolls, and its sequel, Trolls World Tour, with screenwriter and producer Glenn Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Faryn Pearl

Faryn Pearl is an American animation director known for co-directing DreamWorks' Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023), making her the youngest female feature animation director. A University of Pennsylvania graduate (Classical Studies, English, Fine Arts), she began in storyboarding for shows like Big City Greens and Trolls World Tour, transitioning to directing after developing a deep connection with the Ruby Gillman characters, pitching herself to the director to help tell their story.

Peter Thomas

Cast · Known for NOVA

Peter Addenbrooke Thomas was an American announcer and narrator of television programs with a career spanning more than 70 years, most well known for narrating the long-running true-crime series Forensic Files. Thomas performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, Beaumont Health and ESPN Monday Night Football commercials, as well as spots for social organizations including the YWCA and The Episcopal Church. He was in high demand for political advertisements and did several films for the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also narrated the orientation video for the National World War I Museum at The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. He narrated the Readers Digest video series The Crucial Turning Points of World War II. He also narrated the NCAA's official highlight film of the 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Thomas was heard in Paul Hardcastle's 1985 hit song "19," which Hardcastle composed after being inspired by a 1984 ABC documentary on the Vietnam War, titled Vietnam Requiem, which Thomas narrated. He narrated the Troll Associates series of audiobooks for children, including "Amazing World of Dinosaurs." He narrated the CD version of Tuck Everlasting, a novel by Natalie Babbitt. Thomas provided the digitized voice for Philips' HeartStart series of automated external defibrillator (AED) units used by emergency services nationwide. Thomas' voice prompts and instructs emergency personnel on when to perform tasks. Thomas was the announcer of the underwriting credits on the Nature TV series on PBS from the early 1980s through 2015. He also was the announcer of the underwriting credits for the NOVA TV series on PBS from 1988 through 1996. Thomas died on April 30, 2016, at the age of 91. He was memorialized at the end of the first episode of Forensic Files II which aired on February 23, 2020.

Justin Timberlake

Cast · Known for In Time, Trolls World Tour, The Social Network

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 88 million records. Timberlake is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including ten Grammy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Brit Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, the Contemporary Icon Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. According to Billboard, he is the best performing male soloist in the history of the Mainstream Top 40. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, as a child he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Timberlake won two Grammy Awards for his R&B-focused debut solo album Justified (2002) and its single "Cry Me a River". Another single from the album, "Rock Your Body", was also successful. His critically acclaimed second album FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), characterized by its diversity in music genres, debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200 and spawned the Hot 100 consecutive number-one singles with "SexyBack" (featuring Timbaland), "My Love" (featuring T.I.), and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". Established as a solo artist worldwide, his first two albums both exceeded sales of 10 million copies, as he continued producing records and collaborating with other artists. From 2008 through 2012, Timberlake focused on his acting career, effectively putting his music career on hiatus. He held starring roles in the films The Social Network, Bad Teacher, Friends with Benefits, and In Time. Timberlake resumed his music career in 2013 with his third and fourth albums The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2, exploring neo soul styles, partly inspired by the expansive song structures of 1960s and 1970s rock. The former became the best-selling album of the year and spawned the top three singles "Suit & Tie" (featuring Jay-Z) and "Mirrors". Timberlake voiced Branch in DreamWorks Animation's Trolls (2016), whose soundtrack includes his fifth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single, "Can't Stop the Feeling!", which earned him an Academy Award nomination. His fifth studio album Man of the Woods (2018) became his fourth number-one album in the US. Supported by the two top ten singles, "Filthy" and "Say Something" (featuring Chris Stapleton), it concluded 2018 as the sixth best-selling album of the year.

Chris Garbutt

Chris Garbutt is the Head of Story on Bad Fairies with Rikke Asbjoern. He is the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of both the animated interactive Netflix movie, We Lost Our Human, and the Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky. Hailing from the north of England, Chris’ love for comics, cartoons, and storytelling has taken him from scribbling silly doodles on his bedroom floor in Yorkshire, to doing the same for studios in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. He has worked in the animation industry in feature films, TV series, commercials, and short films for over twenty years, enjoying various roles from creating, show-running, executive producing, writing, directing, production design, and art directing, to storyboarding, character design and background design. He has worked at Dreamworks, Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, Aardman, and DNEG, on animated projects such as the Gorillaz, Trolls, Puss In Boots, The Smurfs, Angry Birds, the Amazing World of Gumball, the Mr Bean Animated Series, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Robotboy and Stressed Eric.

Julian Curry

Cast · Known for Play for Today

Julian Burnlee Curry was an English actor best known for playing Claude Erskine-Browne in ITV's legal comedy-drama Rumpole of the Bailey. The son of William Burnlee Curry (1900-1962), headmaster of Dartington Hall School from 1930 to 1957, and Marjorie Graham (née McIldowie), Curry was educated at Dartington Hall School and King's College, Cambridge Curry made his first television appearance in 1965 in an episode of the series For Whom the Bell Tolls. Other TV appearances include roles in Pride and Prejudice (1967), Softly, Softly (1968), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Z-Cars (1965 & 1975), The Floater (1975), The Way of the World (1975), Brassneck (1975), The Glittering Prizes (1976), Trilby (1976), The Onedin Line (1976), Campion's Interview (1977), Rumpole of the Bailey (1977–1992), The Life of Shakespeare (1978), Prince Regent (1979), The Vanishing Army (1980), Psy Warriors (1981), A Fine Romance (1982), the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear (1982), The New Statesman (1984), Three Up, Two Down (1985), Lytton's Diary (1985–86), Death of a Son (1989), Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Sherlock Holmes (1991), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), Inspector Morse (1993), Bugs – Assassins Inc (1995), It Might Be You (1995), Kavanagh QC (1997), The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001), The Hunt (2001), Prince William (2002), Stig of the Dump (2002), Midsomer Murders (2004), The Brief (2005), and The Queen's Sister (2005) Curry's film appearances included The Mini-Affair (1967), The Brontë Sisters (1979), Manions of America (1981), Escape to Victory (1981), The Missionary (1982), Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985), Fall From Grace (1994), Loch Ness (1996), Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), Seven Days to Live [de] (2000), and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).

Konstantin Shayne

Cast · Known for Vertigo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Konstantin Shayne (November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was an actor from the Russian Empire who emigrated to the United States. Born in Kharkov, Russian Empire, to the family of a Jewish actor Veniamin Olkenitsky-Nikulin, he was the brother of actress Tamara Shayne and Russian writers Lev Nikulin and Yuriy Nikulin.[1] The First World War intervened before he could join the Moscow Arts Theatre, and during the conflict he fought with General Wrangel and the White Armies. Shayne was married two times and he also had children. As an actor, Konstantin Shayne performed in movies such as None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Stranger (1946), starring (and directed by) Orson Welles. He performed in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) which featured Danny Kaye in the lead role. His performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) was cut from the final release. In his last film appearance Shayne dominates two minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo, playing the old bookseller Pop Leibel.

Julian Micevski

Julian Micevski (born September 20, 1989), better known by his ring name Ethan Page, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is a one-time and longest-reigning NXT North American Champion, and a one-time NXT Champion. He also makes appearances for WWE's partner promotion AAA, where he is a one-time AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion (with Chelsea Green). Micevski is also known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Evolve, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH). A tag team specialist, he has won multiple tag team championships in many independent promotions, most notably alongside Josh Alexander as The North, including winning the Impact World Tag Team Championship twice, with their first reign being the longest in the title's history at 380 days. In Evolve, he won the Evolve Tag Team Championship with ACH as the Troll Boyz. In AEW, he teamed alongside Scorpio Sky as the Men of the Year. Since 2010, he has owned and operated his own promotion called Alpha-1 Wrestling (A1).

Blu Mankuma

Blu Mankuma (born July 5, 1948) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous Canadian and American productions filmed in Canada. Mankuma was born in Seattle, Washington. Among Mankuma's film credits are Tin Man, The Russia House, Another Stakeout, Harmony Gate, Bird on a Wire, Harmony Cats, Cadence, Look Who's Talking, Connor's War, Shoot to Kill, Blacktop, Eureka, 2012 and G-Saviour The Movie, the first attempt so far at a live action G-n-am Movie. Television credits include continuing roles on M.A.N.T.I.S., Forever Knight, Madison, Love on the Run (1994), Street Justice, Mom P.I., 21 Jump Street, Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, RoboCop and his role as host of the seven-part series Diversity. Individual television episodic credits include the series The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Supernatural, Kung Fu, North of 60, The Round Table, Hat Squad, Scene of The Crime, Booker, Wiseguy, MacGyver, Walt Disney's Davy Crockett, Blue's Folly, Stargate SG-1 and Jack. Mankuma is widely-known as the voice of Tigatron, Tigerhawk and one of the Vok in Beast Wars. Other notable roles include Gigabyte in ReBoot, Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: Spy Troops and G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, and Anubis in the 1997 cartoon Mummies Alive!. He also done voices on other animated films and television shows including Spider-Man Unlimited, Extreme Dinosaurs, Fat Dog Mendoza, RoboCop: Alpha Commando, NASCAR Racers, Scruff, G.I. Joe Extreme, Captain N: The Game Master, Trollz, The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Space Strikers, Double Dragon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Madeline, Inspector Gadget's Last Case, Ultimate Book of Spells, Shadow Raiders, X-Men Evolution, Being Ian, Sabrina, the Animated Series, Sonic Underground, The Littlest Angel, Barbie: Mermaidia, Firehouse Tales, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Littlest Pet Shop, Card Captors, CatDog, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Gadget Boy, Yvon of the Yukon, Billy the Cat, Super Duper Sumos and A Hollywood Hound's Christmas. Mankuma became an internet celebrity in 2010 for his seminal work in "Sex Ed Video: Puberty," a YouTube sensation from San Francisco to Columbus, Ohio. Mankuma is an avid musician, singer, songwriter and stage actor. He and his family currently reside in Vancouver. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amanda Leighton

Amanda Moreno Leighton is an American actress. She is known for her voice acting as Blossom in the 2016 Cartoon Network animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Poppy in the 2018 Netflix animated series Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and Polly Plantar in the 2019 Disney Channel animated series Amphibia.

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.

Erica Rivinoja

Writer · Director · Known for The Addams Family, The Cat in the Hat

Erica Rivinoja (born December 19, 1984) is an American film and television writer, producer and director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Her other film screenplays include Extreme Movie (2008) and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013), and story credits on Trolls (2016), Girls Trip (2017), and The Addams Family (2019). She is set to make her directorial debut with an animated adaptation of The Cat in the Hat. From 2001 to 2012, Rivinoja was a writer and consultant on the animated comedy series South Park, which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program from four nominations. In July 2020, Rivinoja was announced as the showrunner of the Clone High revival. Rivinoja is a native of Hobbs, New Mexico. She graduated from Hobbs High School in 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erica Rivinoja, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jeff Morrow

Composer · Known for Love Language, Snow White

Jeff Morrow is an Emmy-nominated composer renowned for his work in film and television. He has been entrusted to write the music for some of the most iconic and beloved cultural legacies. He is continuing the rich musical history of The Peanuts; brought on by Apple and the Schulz family to score all new Peanuts productions, including Snoopy In Space, The Snoopy Show, Who Are You, Charlie Brown?, and a number of holiday specials, including To Mom (and Dad), with Love, for which his score received an Emmy Nomination. In addition to his work on Peanuts projects, Morrow has contributed music to major films such as Trolls (2016), Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid (2023). Morrow's journey into composition began as a trombonist specializing in jazz and Latin music. Despite having no prior experience in scoring for visual media, his boldness led him to a successful career in film and television composition.

Sarah Vine

Sarah Rosemary Vine is a British columnist. She has written for the Daily Mail since 2013. She was arts editor at The Times, and was married to Conservative peer and former MP Michael Gove. In May 2020, Vine shared a bookcase picture "as a very special treat for my trolls" which featured a book by the Holocaust denier David Irving, and a copy of The Bell Curve, which controversially claims that intelligence is highly heritable and that median IQ varies among races. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Sarah_Vine, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Mike Mitchell

Cast · Executive Producer · Director · Known for Puss in Boots, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 3

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Mike Mitchell (born October 18, 1970) is an American film director, writer, producer, actor and animator. He directed the films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), Sky High (2005), Shrek Forever After (2010), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), Trolls (2016), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Cast · Known for How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kick-Ass

Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (born June 20, 1989) is an American actor and comedian. He has performed roles such as Fogell (McLovin) in Superbad (2007), Augie Farcques in Role Models (2008), and Chris D'Amico in Kick-Ass (2010) and its sequel Kick-Ass 2 (2013). Mintz-Plasse provided voice acting for Fishlegs Ingerman in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019) and King Gristle Jr. in Trolls (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Mintz-Plasse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Quvenzhané Wallis

Quvenzhané Wallis (/kwəˈvɛnʒəneɪ/ kwə-VEN-zhə-nay; born August 28, 2003) is an American actress and author. In 2012, she starred as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actress to be nominated in the category, as well as the first actor born in the 21st century nominated for an Oscar. She went on to appear in the Steve McQueen film 12 Years a Slave (2013). Wallis starred as Annie Bennett in the 2014 adaptation of Annie, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Wallis is also known for voicing the character Harper in the animated film Trolls (2016); as well as her role as Kyra in the television sitcom Black-ish (2019). As an author, she has published four children's books, Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg!, A Night Out with Mama, Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants! and Shai & Emmie Star in To the Rescue!

Jeffrey Tambor

Cast · Known for The Accountant, Hollywood Squares, Tangled

Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman. His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Tom Manning in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Francis Silverberg in The Accountant (2016), and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017). Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). For his voice role in The Lionhearts (1998), he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. From 2002 to 2003, he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares.

Carole Troll

Carole Troll is an actress.

Peter Kriss

Peter Kriss is known for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), The Mill on the Floss (1965) and Madame Bovary (1964).

Jevin Smith

Jevin Smith is an actor and director, known for Blended (2017), The Tenants (2005), The Troll (2023) and A Hip Hop Story (2024).

Margot Rubin

Margot Rubin is a producer, writer, and actress known for The Barbarian and the Troll (Nickelodeon) and the Lego Movie 2 (Warner Bros). She is originally from Chicago and went to Northwestern University. She voiced the roles of Harley Quinn and Susan in the Lego Movie 2. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.

André Øvredal

Director · Known for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

André Øvredal (born 6 May 1973) is a Norwegian filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Troll Hunter (2010), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Mortal (2020) and The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023).