Profile of Mike Judge on Famous Like Me

Mike Judge is an animator, voice actor, writer and producer born on October 17, 1962 in Guayaquil, Ecuador and raised in New Mexico. He is the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill.

Judge earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego then moved to Austin, Texas to work as an engineer, while also trying to become a musician. However, he soon turned to developing cartoons. In 1991 his short "Office Space" was picked up by Comedy Central following a Dallas animation festival. Then, in 1992 he developed "Frog Baseball", a short featuring the characters Beavis and Butt-head to be featured on Liquid Television. The short lead to the creation of the Beavis and Butt-head series on MTV, in which Judge played both title characters as well as the majority of supporting characters. The show ran from 1993 to 1997 and spawned a feature length film, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, released in 1996.

In 1997, Judge left MTV to create King of the Hill for Fox. Many of the show's characters were based on people he'd known while living in Texas and Judge continued his voice acting by playing both Hank Hill and Boomhauer.

In 1999, Judge wrote and directed the live-action comedy film Office Space, which was based in part on the Milton series of cartoons he had created for Saturday Night Live. In the film, he made a cameo appearance as Stan, Jennifer Aniston's anal retentive manager of Chotchkies (complete with hairpiece and fake mustache). Despite the film's success Judge continued to focus on his animation work.

Mike Judge currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.

Trivia

• As a youth Mike Judge earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

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