Tom McGrath Biography
Tom McGrath is an American voice actor and film director. Most noteworthy, he is known for co-directing the 2005 comedy Madagascar and its sequels.
Prior to this, he has also worked the voice of other DreamWorks animations such as flushed away, Shrek the third. Furthermore, he stepped in to make improvements to flushed away prior to its release. He has directed Megamind and The Boss Baby.
Moreover, Tom also provided the voice of skippers in the films and short films of The Penguins of Madagascar.
Tom McGrath Age
McGrath was born on August 7th, 1964 in Lynnwood, Washington, United States. Therefore, he is 55 years of age as of 2019.
Tom McGrath Height
He stands at an approximate height of 1.65m.
Tom McGrath Family
McGrath was born to his parents and raised in Lynnwood, Washington, as Thomas McGrath. He studied Industrial Design at the University of Washington and graduated from the Character Animation program at Cal Arts.
McGrath’s experience in both television and feature animation includes his work as an animator on Ralph Bakshi’s film Cool World which stars 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.
McGrath made his film debut as a co-director, writer, and co-creator of Madagascar along with Erick Darnell. He created a memorable squad of penguin characters and he voiced their leader Skipper.
He reprised his role as Skipper and co-wrote and co-directed the sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. He, later on, he directed the DreamWorks animated feature Megamind which stars Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and David Cross it was released in November 2010.
Tom McGrath Net Worth
McGrath sits at an approximate net worth of that falls between $700,000 and $1.1 million as of 2019. He has earned this lucrative income through his successful career as the voice actor of Skipper, the leader of the penguins in Penguins of Madagascar, Madagascar, and Madagascar: Escape 2.
Tom McGrath Wife
McGrath is married to his lovely life spouse named Brieanne Cameron. The beautiful couple tied the knot in the year 2017. Further information regarding their marriage life/children is currently under review and will be updated soon.
Tom McGrath Movies
Madagascar – 2005The Boss Baby – 2017Penguins of Madagascar – 2014Megamind – 2010Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa – 2008Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – 2012Merry Madagascar – 2009Shrek the Third – 2007Puss in Boots – 2011Monsters vs. Aliens – 2009Madly Madagascar – 2013Mr. Peabody & Sherman – 2014The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper – 2005Penguins of Madagascar: I Was a Penguin Zombie – 2010The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation – DVD Premiere – 2010The Penguins of Madagascar: “Dr. Blowhole’s Revenge – 2010The Penguins of Madagascar: “The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel” – 2010Herd – 1999Penguins of Madagascar: Happy King Julien Day! – 2009
Tom McGrath Megamind
Megamind is a 2010 American computer-animated superhero comedy film coordinated by Tom McGrath, created by DreamWorks Animation, and conveyed by Paramount Pictures. The film debuted on October 28, 2010, in Russia, while it was discharged in the United States in Digital 3D, IMAX 3D, and 2D on November 5, 2010. It includes the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt.
The film recounts to the narrative of a hyper-genius outsider supervillain, Megamind, who after an enduring fight one day really wrecks his enemy, the much-cherished superhuman Metro Man. Having Metro City for himself, Megamind discovers that his villainy has no reason, and therefore makes another hero fill in as his foe. His arrangement reverse discharges, as he winds up making rather another supervillain. With Metro City spiraling wild, Megamind endeavors to fix things and finds his recently discovered reason—as a hero.
Megamind got commonly positive audits from pundits, adulating its solid visuals and the cast’s exhibitions, yet censuring its predictability and amusingness. With a financial limit of $130 million, the film netted over $321 million around the world, getting to be one of DreamWorks Animation’s most minimal earning CG energized movies of the 2010s.
A short film, titled Megamind: The Button of Doom, was discharged on February 25, 2011, on the Megamind DVD and Blu-beam.
The film was composed by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons. It was first titled Master Mind and after that Oobermind. It was recommended that Ben Stiller would be given a role as Megamind, and later Robert Downey, Jr. Nonetheless, Will Ferrell was at last given the job, because of “booking clashes” for Downey. Lara Breay and Denise Nolan Cascino were the film’s makers, and Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld were the official makers.
Justin Theroux and Guillermo del Toro filled in as imaginative experts on the film. Del Toro just came locally available three weeks before the finish of generation, yet proceeded to have a progressively significant job in ensuing DreamWorks Animation films. The opening of the film, where Megamind is tumbling to his evident demise, was del Toro’s idea.
Tom McGrath Skipper
McGrath is most popular as Skipper of Madagascar movies & the TV show, Penguins Of Madagascar.
McGrath has found that children believe Skipper, the tough, no-nonsense penguin he first voiced in the 2005 animated hit “Madagascar,” is real.
“That is the scourge of being a voice,” said McGrath, who repeats the winged animal with an inclination for Cheezy Dibbles in the 3-D vivified satire “Penguins of Madagascar,” which opened Nov. 26.
At the point when he’s played out the voice of Skipper for kids, McGrath stated, “they get truly frightened. It resembles an amusement park character removing their outfit head. It breaks the dream. So I need to go behind an entryway and do it!”
The mild-mannered, affable McGrath, 50, was never expected to play Skipper. He’s not, in any case, an entertainer, but instead one of DreamWorks Animation’s top movie producers. He and Eric Darnell co-coordinated “Madagascar” and the two spin-offs. He went solo as an executive with 2010’s “Megamind.”
McGrath had grown up watching motion pictures featuring intense folks John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Robert Stack and imagined Stack (“The Untouchables,” “Unsolved Mysteries”) as the voice of the pioneer of the entertaining squad of stealth penguins.
He and Darnell at long last got the greenlight in 2003 to contract Stack. “Lamentably, he passed away,” McGrath said at DreamWorks in Glendale, where he’s underway on the vivified film “Manager Baby,” set for discharge in 2016.
McGrath, who likewise co-composed the initial two “Madagascar” films with Darnell, had recorded the voice in an alleged fundamental scratch-track. “Individuals were utilized to me doing that voice. We realized it worked when we screened it.” And it wasn’t some time before DreamWorks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg let him know, “You got the part, kid.”
Tom McGrath TV Series
The Penguins of Madagascar (2008 – 2015)Merry Madagascar (2009)DreamWorks Happy Holidays from Madagascar (Since 2005)
