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Raymond Saharath Persi is an American director, producer, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor, known for director episodes of The Simpsons. In 2010, Raymond moved from Fox Studios to Walt Disney Animation Studios to work on the 2012 animated feature film Wreck-It Ralph. In that film, he provided the voices of Gene and Cyril. He was also a storyman and voiced the Horn on the animated short Get a Horse!. Additionally, he voiced Flash in the 2016 animated feature film Zootopia. During the D23 Expo 2015 in Anaheim, California, Raymond Persi revealed that he was storyboarding for the ultimately cancelled Gigantic.

Persi was also tasked to storyboard a long-lost alternate ending to The Jungle Book that was adapted from an old script treatment, which appears as a bonus feature on the film's Blu-ray release.

Outside of Disney, Persi worked extensively on The Simpsons as a director. He also co-directed Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records) which won the "Best Animated Music Video" award at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.

Filmography[]

Year Film Position
2012 Wreck-It Ralph Story Artist/Voice Actor of Gene and Cyril
2013 Get a Horse! Writer/Voice Actor of Horn
2013 Frozen Story Artist/Voice Actor
2014 Feast Story Artist
2016 Zootopia Story Artist/Voice Actor of Flash and Officer Higgins
2016 Inner Workings Voice Actor
2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet Additional Story Artist/Voice Actor
2022 Zootopia+ Voice Actor of Flash
2023 Once Upon a Studio Voice Actor of Flash

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Trivia[]

  • Outside of working at Disney, Raymond was part of a performance duo called RayRay in the early 00s. The duo featured him and another performer in two unusual mascot outfits performing a variety of sketches. One day, the suits were stolen and in 2008, a mysterious video called Blankroomsoup.avi was uploaded online featuring the costumes being used in the video.
  • As revealed in behind-the-scenes footage of the voice recording for Once Upon a Studio, Persi owns a puppet version of Flash.
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