Marco Marenghi

Education

He graduated from the University of Wales with an Higher National Certificate in Electronics, and he worked for a microelectronics firm in Rhondda.

Career

He was laid off due to redundancy, and he briefly worked as a television repairman before becoming unemployed. After graduating with an HND in Animation, he worked for Framestore for four years on projects including the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and the British Broadcasting Corporation television miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs (1999). DreamWorks hired Marenghi to work on films including Minority Report (2002).

He moved to Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he worked as animation supervisor on films including I Am Legend (2007) and Ghost Rider (2007).

He also worked as an animation director for Animal Logic for the film Walking with Dinosaurs (2013). The British Broadcasting Corporation featured Marenghi"s dramatic career change and inspirational story in the documentary On Show: The Marco Marenghi Story (2004).

Achievements

• In 2008 Marenghi received the Friz Frieling lifetime Achievement Award in Animation and in 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of South Wales.