Peter Sohn is an American animator, director, voice actor, and storyboard artist at Pixar Animated Studios. He will voice Sox in Lightyear.
Roles[]
Films[]
Lightyear (upcoming) - Sox (2022)
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Sohn was born on January 23, 1977 in The Bronx, and raised in New York City, and his parents were Korean immigrants. He attended CalArts and while there, he got a summer job working on Brad Bird's The Iron Giant. After graduating from school, he worked at The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. before going to Pixar. He graduated from high school in 1995.[1]
Career[]
Sohn started his career with Pixar in the story and art departments for Finding Nemo. He also worked on Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E. He voiced Emile in Ratatouille. He made his directorial debut with the short film Partly Cloudy in 2009, which he also wrote. Partly Cloudy was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2009. Sohn co-directed the English-language version of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in 2009 with John Lasseter and Brad Lewis, with the former working on Lightyear with him.[1]
Russell, the boy in Up, was based on Sohn. He voiced Russell in the corresponding short, George & A.J., and "Squishy" in Monsters University. Sohn directed The Good Dinosaur, which was released in November 2015. He also voiced the Styracosaurus character Forrest Woodbush. While still working at Pixar, Sohn was set to voice the Marvel Comics character Ganke Lee in the Sony Pictures Animation film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, though his lines were ultimately deleted from the final film.[1]
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