Biography
Eric Darnell is an American animator, director, writer and occasional voice actor. Born in Prairie Village, Kansas, he studied broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado and experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
He began his career at Pacific Data Images before co-directing Antz (1998) with Tim Johnson. Darnell co-directed and co-wrote the Madagascar films (2005, 2008, 2012) with Tom McGrath and co-directed the spin-off Penguins of Madagascar (2014) with Simon J. Smith. He provided voices including Zoo Announcer, Lemur #1, Fossa and Subway Car Announcer on the first Madagascar film. He later co-founded Baobab Studios.
