Kelly Adam Asbury (born January 15, 1960) is an American animated film director, screenwriter, voice actor, published children's book author/illustrator, and non-fiction author. He is best known for directing animated films, including
Shrek 2 and
Gnomeo & Juliet. Asbury was born in Beaumont, Texas and attended Lamar University for two years before transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts in 1980, where he studied animation and film makingKelly Asbury directed and co-wrote the animated film
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), for which he also provided the voices of the tiny Red Goon Gnomes. He was nominated for two Annie Awards for directing and co-writing that film.In 2003, he wrote a non-fiction book titled
Dummy Days, which is a biography of five 20th century ventriloquists. He is the author and illustrator of twelve published children's books,
including
Rusty's Red Vacation,
Bonnie's Blue House and
Yolanda's Yellow School.In mid-2011 to mid-2012, Asbury briefly returned to Walt Disney Animation Studios to contribute storyboards to
Wreck-It Ralph and
Frozen. In March 2018, Asbury began directing STX Entertainment’s first animated feature
UglyDolls, to be released May 3, 2019
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