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My Take
Mike Judge might be the sharpest satirist American television has produced, and he did it while pretending to be the dumbest. Beavis and Butt-Head looked like idiocy but was really a mirror held up to its audience; Silicon Valley skewered tech culture so precisely that industry insiders winced in recognition. A Guayaquil-born, UC San Diego-educated outsider to Hollywood, he writes with an engineer's eye for how systems fail and how people delude themselves. The Emmy and the Winsor McCay Award only confirm what fans always knew: beneath the crude drawings sits one of the great American social critics. I revisit his work constantly.
Overview
Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an Ecuadorian-born American actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997, 2011, 2022–present), and co-created the television series King of the Hill (1997–2010, 2025–present), The Goode Family (2009), Silicon Valley (2014–2019), and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017–2…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mike Judge
- Name (Japanese)
- マイク・ジャッジ
- Reading
- まいく・じゃっじ
- Born
- October 17, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
- Origin
- Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / actor / voice actor / screenwriter / animator
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- St. Pius X High School
- University
- University of California, San Diego
Awards & achievements
- Annie Award
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program
- 2008 Winsor McCay Award
- 2016 Inkpot Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Beavis and Butt-Head | — | |
| Notable work | Silicon Valley | — |
6. Links
Film director — see all → · Actor — see all → · More people from Ecuador →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.