Amy Winfrey was born on October 1975 and is an American animator, screenwriter, songwriter, director and voice actress.
10 Facts About Amy Winfrey
1.
2.
Amy Winfrey is best known for creating the web series Making Fiends that was later picked up by Nickelodeon in 2008, and for directing several episodes of BoJack Horseman, including "The View From Halfway Down" and "Free Churro", which were each nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program at the 71st and 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmys.
3.
Amy Winfrey provided all of the voice acting, except for the eponymous character who is voiced by her husband, Peter Merryman.
4.
Amy Winfrey pitched it as a series for NBC and Fox in 2002, but neither picked it up.
5.
In 2008, Amy Winfrey started Squid and Frog, short cartoons about a red squid and an orange frog, who sing about various things, such as that you can't learn surgery from television.
6.
On 6 October 2018, Amy Winfrey released a web cartoon called Hooray For Hell, co-created by Peter Merryman.
7.
Amy Winfrey created Making Fiends in 2003 as a web cartoon.
8.
Amy Winfrey was able to produce web animation full time after she began selling merchandise of her characters online.
9.
Amy Winfrey used to be a supervising producer on Velma before it was cancelled.
10.
Amy Winfrey has been an educator teaching animation at the UCLA Animation Workshop.