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Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969 in Conifer, Colorado) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor and actor. He is one of the creators of the animated series South Park.

Biography

Randolph Severn Parker III is the younger of two children born to Randy and Sharon Parker. His older sister is Shelley. Born in Conifer, Colorado, Parker attended West Jefferson Junior High School and Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, where he was voted class clown. Trey currently resides in Bel Air and is married to Emma Sugiyama as of January 2006. Contrary to popular belief, neither he nor Matt Stone attended Columbine High School.

Parker went to Berklee College of Music in Boston before transferring to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he met Matt. He was majoring in music, and, with a goal to someday score films, took classes to learn more about the film process. He made several animated shorts including American History which won a Student Academy Award, and The Spirit of Christmas
: Jesus vs. Frosty with Stone.

Parker's first live action film was a feature length piece about Alferd Packer, a Colorado miner who was the first person convicted of cannibalism in America. A trailer was shot over the summer, and was used to help raise enough funds to shoot the film. Alferd Packer, The Musical (it was renamed Cannibal! The Musical
when picked up in 1996 for distribution by Troma) began filming during spring break in 1993. Family, friends and fellow students all took part in the film. Students who participated received intern credit. Also contrary to popular belief, Parker was not expelled from the University for absences during the film. He did, in fact, graduate.

Parker's college film caught the eye of Brian Graden, a then Fox executive. In 1995, Graden commissioned Stone and Parker to create a video Christmas card based on their animated college short. The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa was the result -- a five minute short that featured an uncensored Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick watching Jesus and Santa battle it out for ownership of Christmas. One of the recipients of the video (rumored to be George Clooney) made several hundred copies, and the animation became a must-see passed around Hollywood and the Internet.

That same year, Parker created a pilot for Fox called Time Warped -- a "musical romp through time" featuring a story about Aaron and Moses. Fox felt the idea would work better as a children's show so a new pilot, Rom & Jul was made for Fox Kids -- a Romeo and Juliet-esque story about a Homo erectus and Australopithecus who fall in love despite the conflict between their species. Fox Kids passed on the show.

Parker wrote, directed and starred in his second feature film Orgazmo
in 1997, about a wholesome Mormon who becomes a celebrity in the Los Angeles' adult film world. Due to the NC-17 rating given by the Motion Picture Association of America it did not have a wide release.

Parker and Stone were hired by Comedy Central to create a show based on the animated characters they created in college. Though it didn't test well with audiences, Comedy Central decided to pick it up for six episodes anyway. South Park made its debut on August 13, 1997, and has since gone on to be the highest rated original series in the network's history.

In 1998, Parker starred with Stone, Dian Bachar and Yasmine Bleeth in BASEketball
, directed by David Zucker of Airplane!
and Naked Gun fame. The story follows a group of friends who take their homemade game from neighborhood driveways to the professional sports world.

In the summer of 1999, Parker and Stone released their critically acclaimed feature length film, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
, which was, naturally, a musical. "Blame Canada", a song written by Parker and Marc Shaiman, was nominated for Best Song at the Academy Awards. The award was lost to Phil Collins, who was spoofed in later episodes of South Park.

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