---
name: "Nancy Kruse"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nancy-kruse"
fi1m_id: "nancy-kruse"
imdb_id: "nm0472866"
tmdb_id: 1223634
wikidata_id: "Q3335585"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "26 August 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T14:38:13.532689+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."
---

# Nancy Kruse

## Identity

Nancy Kruse

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nancy-kruse
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nancy-kruse
- **IMDb ID:** nm0472866
- **TMDB ID:** 1223634
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3335585
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335585, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472866/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223634

Writer and director. Born 26 August 1965 in California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 26 August 1965, California, USA
- **Active:** 1989–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 directing, 5 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 2010s 73 (3), 2020s 75 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 73 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Comedy 5, Family 5, Adventure 4, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $4,156m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kruse, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335585, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472866/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223634

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nancy Kruse is an American animation director and artist. She was born on 26 August 1965 in California.

She began working on *The Simpsons* during its first season in 1989 as a background clean-up artist. She progressed to background and character layout roles before becoming an assistant director. Kruse directed her first episode in season 10 and went on to direct 25 episodes through season 22 in 2010.

She later worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios as a story artist on *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), *Zootopia* (2016) and *Ralph Breaks the Internet* (2018), and as head of story on *Encanto* (2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Directed (1)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

### Wrote (5) — the average rests on these

- *Zootopia 2* (2025), Fi1m 70, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/zootopia-2.md)
- *Encanto* (2021), Fi1m 80, Head of Story, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)
- *Ralph Breaks the Internet* (2018), Fi1m 66, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/ralph-breaks-the-internet.md)
- *Zootopia* (2016), Fi1m 82, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/zootopia.md)
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), Fi1m 70, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Zootopia 2* (2025), Story Artist — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/zootopia-2.md)
- *Encanto* (2021), Story, Head of Story — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)
- *Ralph Breaks the Internet* (2018), Story Artist — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/ralph-breaks-the-internet.md)
- *Zootopia* (2016), Story Artist — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/zootopia.md)
- *Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection* (2015), Story
- *Get a Horse!* (2013), Storyboard Artist, Story
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), Story Artist — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)
- *The Simpsons Movie* (2007), Sequence Supervisor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-simpsons-movie.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Twilight* (1988), as (voice)

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