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Trey Parker

American screenwriter, actor, and producer
Also known as: Randolph Severn Parker III
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Trey Parker (born October 19, 1969, Conifer, Colorado, U.S.) is an American screenwriter, actor, and producer, best known as the cocreator, with Matt Stone, of the subversive animated comedy series South Park (1997– ) and the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon (2011). Parker grew up in small-town Colorado. While in high school, he and a friend released a comedy musical album, Immature: A Collection of Love Ballads for the ’80s Man. He went...

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