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Currently, Barry Cook is 65 years, 8 months and 6 days old. Barry Cook will celebrate 66rd birthday on a Monday 12th of August 2024. Below we countdown to Barry Cook upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Barry Cook |
Occupation | Director |
Age | 65 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | August 12, 1958 (Nashville, Tennessee, USA) |
Birthday | August 12 |
Town/City | Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
Nationality | USA |
Barry Cook’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Barry Cook was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Barry Cook was born and raised in Nashville, TN, USA. He began making films at the age of ten on the family super 8 camera. He won two prizes in the local PBS-sponsored Young Filmakers Festival with "The Vampire" and "Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the age of twelve. During summers, he and his brother would work at Opryland USA, drawing caricatures of the guests. At the age of eighteen, Barry moved to California to pursue his career in motion pictures.
He studied at Columbia College, where he spent time helping colleagues with their student films. He served as an intern at Hanna Barbera. He joined Disney in 1981 to work on "Tron". He has worked as an animator on many Disney films, including "Oliver & Company" and "Captain EO".
He has worked at Disney for seventeen years, and "Mulan" was his directing debut. He currently lives in Florida with his wife and four children.