Director

Jared Bush

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

2.4

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1318201

IMDb ID: nm1158544

Known for: Writing

Born: June 12, 1974

Age: 51

Place of birth: Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2014 - 2027

Years active: 14

Average TMDB rating: 7.43

Wikidata: Q20995253

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Executive Producer (6)Screenplay (2)Story (2)Writer (1)

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Biography

Jared Bush (born June 12, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director who has served as the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2024. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Zootopia (2016) and its sequel Zootopia 2 (2025), writing the movie Moana (2016), its sequel Moana 2 (2024) and the 2026 upcoming live-action remake, and writing, directing, and winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the film Encanto (2021), besides co-creating and executive producing the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. Bush is a graduate of Harvard University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jared Bush, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.