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name: "Clare Knight"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clare-knight"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "27 March 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T09:01:48.010815+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Clare Knight

Editor. Born 27 March 1966 in Dublin.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 27 March 1966, Dublin
- **Also known as:** Clare De Chenu
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106520537, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208005/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56678

## Biography

Clare Knight is an animation editor, also credited early in her career as Clare De Chenu. Born in 1966 in Dublin, she studied film at St Martin’s School of Art in London. She began as an assistant editor at Amblimation on *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* (1991) and subsequent projects including *Balto* (1995).

She joined DreamWorks Animation in Los Angeles, serving as first assistant editor on *The Prince of Egypt* (1998) and editor on *Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron* (2002), *Madagascar* (2005) and its short *The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper* (2005), and the *Kung Fu Panda* trilogy (2008–2016). Knight edited *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019) and directed the Netflix feature *Back to the Outback* (2021). She later joined Sony Pictures Animation as lead editor on *GOAT* (2026).

Knight has been married to actor Wayne Knight since 2006; they have one child.

*Sources: sonypicturesanimation.com, cinemontage.org, de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Fi1m 63, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *GOAT* (2026), Editor
- *Nimona* (2023), Thanks
- *Back to the Outback* (2021), Director
- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Editor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)
- *Trolls Holiday* (2017), Editor
- *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016), Editor
- *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011), Editor
- *The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper* (2005), Editor
- *Madagascar* (2005), Editor
- *Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron* (2002), Editor

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