Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III was born on October 19,1969 and is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, and composer.
26 Facts About Trey Parker
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Trey Parker is known for co-creating South Park and The Book of Mormon with his creative partner Matt Stone.
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Trey Parker went on to write, produce, direct, and star in the satirical action film Team America: World Police, and, after several years of development, The Book of Mormon premiered on Broadway to good reviews.
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Trey Parker was born in Conifer, Colorado, the son of insurance saleswoman Sharon and geologist Randolph "Randy" Trey Parker.
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Trey Parker was a shy child who received "decent" grades and was involved in honors classes.
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Trey Parker idolized Monty Python, which he began watching on television in the third grade.
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Trey Parker played the dentist and had a friend play the patient.
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Trey Parker has described himself as "the typical big-dream kid" who envisioned a career in film and music.
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Trey Parker made short films on the weekends with a group of friends, beginning when he was 14.
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Trey Parker's father had purchased him a video camera and the group continued making films until graduation.
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Trey Parker became interested in pursuing music at 17, but only comedy-centered songs; he wrote and recorded a full-length comedy album, Immature: A Collection of Love Ballads For The '80's Man, with friend David Goodman during this time.
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Trey Parker was typically the lead in school plays and was prom king.
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Trey Parker later remarked that he and Stone would shoot a film nearly every week, but he has since lost most of them.
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Trey Parker first used a construction paper animation technique on American History, a short film made for his college animation class.
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Trey Parker graduated with a double-major Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993.
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Trey Parker again employed the cutout paper technique on Avenging Conscience's first production, Jesus vs Frosty, an animated short pitting the religious figure against Frosty the Snowman.
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The idea was based on an obsession Trey Parker had with Alferd Packer, a real nineteenth-century prospector accused of cannibalism.
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Trey Parker told McHugh he had a "vision" they needed to be at the festival, which resulted in the group renting out a conference room in a nearby hotel and putting on their own screenings.
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Trey Parker preferred the show be produced by Comedy Central, fearing that MTV would turn it into a kids show.
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Trey Parker admitted that press coverage, which proclaimed the end of South Park was near, bothered him.
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Trey Parker said the producers did not want to make fun of politics: the main goal was to parody sitcom tropes, such as a lovable main character, the sassy maid, and the wacky neighbor.
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In 2021, Stone and Trey Parker signed a $900 million deal with Paramount Global to make six additional seasons of South Park and 14 movies in the South Park universe for streaming.
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In January 2022, it was announced Trey Parker will produce an untitled film with Stone through their now-renamed production company Park County and Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free's multi-disciplinary media company PGLang.
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Trey Parker subsequently began a relationship with Boogie Tillmon, whom he later married in 2014.
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Trey Parker owns properties in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Kauai, Hawaii; Seattle, Washington; and Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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In 2004, Trey Parker summed up his views with the comment:.