name | Trey Parker |
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birth date | October 19, 1969 |
birth name | Randolph Severn Parker III |
birth place | |
occupation | Actor, writer, director, producer, musician |
active | 1992 - |
spouse | Emma Sugiyama (2005–2008) }} |
Parker started his film career in 1992, making a holiday short titled Jesus vs. Frosty. His first success came from Cannibal! The Musical. From there he made another short titled Jesus vs. Santa, which led him and his college friend, Matt Stone, to create the animated television series South Park, which began airing on television in 1997. He has won 4 Emmy Awards for his role in South Park, winning for both "Outstanding Programming More Than One Hour" and "Outstanding Programming Less Than One Hour".
He has co-written and co-directed the 2011 multi-Tony Award winning musical The Book of Mormon.
Parker worked hard in school and had a part-time student job in a pizza restaurant. Parker was also a "film geek and music buff". Parker grew up in the Conifer, Colorado area, and attended Berklee College of Music before transferring to the University of Colorado, where he majored in music and Japanese.
They came up with two worthwhile ideas; one a sequel to Jesus vs. Frosty, entitled Jesus vs. Santa, and one about a character that would later be recurring in South Park, Mr. Hankey. They chose to write about the four boys. The result was The Spirit of Christmas, an animated short film that centered on four crude-acting, blob-shaped third-grade boys forced to intervene in a nasty fistfight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. The tape was a smash, passed around and copied endlessly in media circles in Los Angeles and New York City. The video landed in the hands of Doug Herzog of Comedy Central. "It literally was the funniest thing I'd ever seen," he said in a 2006 interview. "We said, 'Develop a show.' So they went off and developed the show." Stone and Parker produced 13 episodes for season 1. South Park is currently still under contract to produce new episodes through 2011.
In 1997, they also released Orgazmo, a movie rated NC-17. In 1998, they starred in (but did not write or direct) BASEketball, another feature film, while being renewed for a second season of South Park. In 1999, Parker and Stone made South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which gave the series a new level of prominence. He was nominated for an Academy Award as the co-writer of one of the film's songs, "Blame Canada," but did not win. In 2001, the duo announced they would do 39 shorts between the lengths of 2 and 5 minutes. Although originally thought to be South Park related, they decided they would do something different. The result was the shorts Princess. The content was so extreme that it was cancelled after two shows aired. In 2001, they also created That's My Bush!, another television series. Despite great reviews, the show was cancelled after one season for the cost per episode. In 2004, they made a film, titled Team America: World Police. The film was not considered a box-office success, grossing 51 million dollars in theaters, despite largely positive reviews (78% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com). As of 2011, South Park is in its fifteenth season.
Parker is also a member of the band DVDA with Stone, for which he plays keyboards and sings. DVDA's songs have appeared in many of the duo's productions. They include Orgazmo, BASEketball, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and Team America: World Police.
Trey claimed to have been on acid with Matt Stone at the time of the 2000 Academy Awards, where they wore dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at previous awards shows.
On September 28, 2007, Parker and Stone acquired the rights to the Canadian-made Kenny vs. Spenny, which premiered November 14, 2007 on Comedy Central with ten old and new episodes.
In April 2010, Trey Parker and Matt Stone received a "warning" for allegedly representing the Prophet Muhammad in a bear costume: "We have to warn Matt and Trey [South Park creators] that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show." It was revealed in the next episode that the person in the bear costume was really Santa Claus and not the Prophet Muhammad.
On a September 2006 airing of the ABC news program Nightline, Parker articulated his position on religion. He stated that he believes there is knowledge that humanity may not yet possess, and cautioned that it would take a long time to explain exactly what he meant by his belief in God. Parker further remarked, "Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous — the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just
Year | ! Production | ! Role | ! Other notes | |
rowspan="1" | 1992 | The Spirit of Christmas (short film)>Jesus vs. Frosty | Actor, Producer, Writer | |
rowspan="1" | 1993 | CannibalThe Musical | Director, Actor, Producer, Writer | |
rowspan="3" | 1995 | The Spirit of Christmas (short film)Jesus vs. Santa || | Actor, Producer, Writer | |
Time Warped (un-aired television series) | Creator, Actor | |||
Your Studio and You | Actor, Writer, Director | |||
1996 | Orgazmo| | Director, Actor, Writer, Producer | ||
rowspan="1" | 1997 | South Park (Television series; 1997–present)| | Co-Creator, Voice Actor, Writer, Director, Executive Producer | |
1998 | BASEketball| | Actor | ||
rowspan="2" | 1999 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut| | Director, Voice Actor, Writer, Producer, Music Co-Composer | Nomination - Academy Award for Best Original Song |
Terror Firmer | Actor | |||
2000 | Even If You Don't| | Director | Music Video | |
rowspan="2" | 2001 | Princess (Flash series)Princess || | Director, Writer, Voice Actor, Producer | Animation Shorts |
That's My Bush! (Television Series; 2001) | Co-creator, Writer, Executive Producer | |||
rowspan="2" | 2004 | Team America: World Police| | Director, Writer, Voice Actor, Producer | |
Tales from the Crapper | Actor | |||
2005 | The Aristocrats (film)The Aristocrats || | Guest Appearance | ||
2007 | Kenny vs. Spenny| | Executive Producer | ||
2007 | Saul of the Mole Men| | Voice actor | Television series, intro sung by him |
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