Background
Mike Judge was born on October 17, 1962, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is the second of three children born to William James "Jim" Judge and Margaret Yvonne (née Blue). He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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1994
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1993
Actor animator director musician producer writer
Mike Judge was born on October 17, 1962, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is the second of three children born to William James "Jim" Judge and Margaret Yvonne (née Blue). He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Judge received his education at St. Pius X High School. He also graduated with a physics degree from the University of California in San Diego in 1985.
Mike Judge started his career as a programmer for the F/A-18 Hornet fighter at Support Systems Inc. In 1987, he shifted to Texas to work with a video graphics startup named Parallax Graphics, based in Santa Clara. After a short period of time he went on to pursue music and became a bass player with a Blues band. He played there for 2 years, when he realized, that he wanted to become an animator. In 1989, Mike Judge began making short animation cartoons that were then sent to several channels. In 1991 he was up by television channel Comedy Central.
The next year his short film Frog Baseball became the base to an animated series titled Beavis and Butt-head series, which was eventually showed on MTV in 1993. Since then, Judge works as a director and producer of different movies and TV shows, including King of the Hill, Extract, Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, The Goode family and many others.
Mike Judge was also an actor. In 2001, he acted the role of Donnagon Giggles in the science fantasy adventure film Spy Kids. He replayed his role in 2002 for Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams and in 2003 for Spy Kids 3-D: Game Ove.
In his career, Mike Judge has also played several cameo roles like the role of Hank Hill on The Cleveland Show (2010-2012), Beavis and Butt-Head on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2011) and Family Guy (2013).
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Quotations:
"They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV."
"For so much of my life I was worried about how I was going to make a living. I was in denial in college, and then I was like 'Oh, shit, I'm going to be a homeless bum. I gotta figure out a job'. My sister used to read all these Nancy Drew books, and she would say, "Nancy Drew just says 'so I hopped on a plane'. How does she pay for the ticket?" And I just think sometimes that's lacking in the entertainment world. People seem to have endless cash no matter they do."
"When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge."
"Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?"
In 1989, Mike Judge married Francesca Morocco and they had two children, Julia Judge and Lily Judge. The couple later parted ways. In 2007, he had a son, Charles Judge, with actress Katrina Holden Bronson.