Peter Sohn
☼ Born on 18 December 1977, in New York City, New York, USA
BiographyPeter Sohn joined Pixar Animation Studios in September 2000, and began working in both the art and story departments for the Academy Award®-winning "Finding Nemo." Sohn continued on to work on "The Incredibles" in the art, story, and animation departments. He focused on animating members of the Parr family and worked on many memorable scenes from the film. He also worked as a story artist on another Oscar® winner, the 2008 feature film, "WALL.E."
Sohn worked with producer Kevin Reher on the Pixar short "Partly Cloudy," which was also his directorial debut at Pixar. Sohn directed Disney.Pixar's original feature "The Good Dinosaur," which opened in theaters in 2015.
In addition to his contributions as a filmmaker, Sohn has lent his voice talents to Pixar's feature films. In "Ratatouille" he voiced the character of Emile, and in "Monsters University," he is the voice of Scott "Squishy" Squibbles.
Prior to Pixar, Sohn worked at Warner Bros. with "Ratatouille" director Brad Bird on "The Iron Giant," as well as at Disney TV. He grew up in New York and attended California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). He currently lives in the Bay Area.
In the role of actor
Lightyear (18/06/2022)
The story of the Space Ranger who inspired the toy is told in Lightyear. Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) is a Space Ranger of Star Command who travels to the planet of T’Kani Prime with his commanding officer and friend Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), discovering relatively quickly that the planet is quite hostile. However, the exploration […]
Monsters University (04/07/2013)
In this prequel to 2001’s Monsters Inc., the latest Disney/Pixar film Monsters University looks at the college years of Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) as they learned to become scarers. Even though they eventually become best buddies, Mike and Sulley begin as bitter academic rivals, with Mike being an over-eager […]