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Donkey is a fictional character created by William Steig and adapted by DreamWorks Animation for the Shrek franchise.He is voiced primarily by Eddie Murphy.Donkey is an anthropomorphic donkey and his appearance is modeled after a miniature donkey named Perry. [1]
He played Aaron Burr in Hamilton in Chicago and joined the musical's Broadway cast. [8] Since 2021, he has been part of the supporting cast of the Peacock show Girls5Eva. Breaker stars as the Jester alongside his former Shrek the Musical co-star Sutton Foster in the 2024 Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress. [9]
Chris Farley was originally cast to be the voice of Shrek, but he died before he could complete his voice work. He had finished 85-95% of his lines. [1] [2] Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy in the films, Mark Moseley in the video games, and Dean Edwards in Scared Shrekless) is a talking donkey, and Shrek's best friend.
Variety reported in April 2023 that Universal and DreamWorks Animation were eyeing a fifth “Shrek” movie with the original cast (Murphy as Donkey, Mike Myers as Shrek, Cameron Diaz as Fiona ...
Murphy voiced Donkey beginning with 2001's "Shrek" alongside Mike Myers as the titular green ogre, eventually returning for three sequels: 2004's "Shrek 2," 2007's "Shrek the Third" and 2010's ...
Even as Chris Meledandri prepares to launch Mario onto movie screens, the Illumination founder and CEO is simultaneously juggling several new movies and sequels in his ever-expanding animation empire.
For Murphy's role as Donkey in Shrek (2001), he won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the latter, which to date the only voice-over performance to ever be nominated in BAFTA's history.
Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book by William Steig.Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (in their feature directorial debuts) and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman, it is the first installment in the Shrek film series.