Mike Judge

Mike Judge, born Michael Craig Judge on October 17, 1962, is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, and musician. He is best known as the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997, 2011, 2022–present), as well as the co-creator of the television series King of the Hill (1997–2010), The Goode Family (2009), Silicon Valley (2014–2019), and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017–2018). Judge has written and directed several films, including Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Extract (2009). He co-wrote the screenplay for Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022). Judge was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied physics before turning his focus to animation and short films.