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Raymond Saharath Persi (born February 17, 1975) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has directed many episodes of The Simpsons, including "Mobile Homer", "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", "The Monkey Suit", "Little Big Girl", "24 Minutes", "Love, Springfieldian Style" and the Emmy Award-winning "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". Persi went on to work as a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie (2007).

Raymond Persi
Born	(1975-02-17) February 17, 1975 (age 47) Eagle Rock, California, U.S.

Outside of his Simpsons work, Persi co-directed Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records). The video won the "Best Animated Music Video" award at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject. Raymond also created the character and performance "RayRay".

In 2010, Persi moved from Film Roman to Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked extensively on Academy Award nominee Wreck-It Ralph (2012). In addition to serving as storyboard artist, he had a prominent acting role in the film as Gene, leader of the Nicelanders whom Wreck-It Ralph is programmed to antagonize. Persi also voices the Zombie from The House of the Dead in a scene where Ralph joins other video game villains at a support group meeting.

Persi has become a mainstay with Disney, providing additional voices and storyboard work for Frozen (2013), as well as the voice of Flash the Sloth and Officer Higgins in Zootopia (2016).[1]

Persi is part-Thai on his mother's side.[2] Saharath, Persi's middle name, is used in the credits for "Love, Springfieldian Style".

Filmography

• Wreck-It Ralph (2012) – Voice of Gene and Zombie
• Get a Horse! (2013) – Voice of Pete's Car Horn
• Frozen (2013) – Additional Voices
• Zootopia (2016) – Voice of Flash and Officer Higgins
• Inner Workings (2016) – Voice of Stomach and Monk
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) – Voice of Gene
• Santa's Little Helpers (2019) – Voice of Head Elf
• Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) - Voice of Birthday Boy

Simpsons episodes directed by Persi

Season 16

• Mobile Homer

Season 17

• The Girl Who Slept Too Little
• The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
• The Monkey Suit

Season 18

• Little Big Girl
• 24 Minutes

Season 19

• Love, Springfieldian Style

Season 20

• Lost Verizon
• Four Great Women and a Manicure

Season 21

• The Color Yellow

Accolades

Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref(s)
Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)	The Simpsons (for episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story")	Won	[3]

References

External links

• Raymond S. Persi at IMDb

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Raymond Saharath Persi, más conocido como Raymond S. Persi, nació en el barrio de Eagle Rock en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, en Estados Unidos. Es un director de animación de la popular serie de televisión Los Simpson desde el año 2005 hasta la actualidad, aunque también ha trabajado en otros proyectos con otros cargos.

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