Kenny Yates

Info

Role

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth

10/29/1984

Place of birth

Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA

Kenny Yates

Biography

Kenny Yates is an actor and feature film producer and director. He has been working in the film industry since 2004 and has worked on a wide variety of projects including feature films, web videos and commercials. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor on the Daytime Emmy winning PBSkids show Zoom. He appeared on 80 episodes over two seasons. He got his first gig on the 20th Century Fox/Regency film Date Movie. He continued as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's assistant on Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans & Vampires Suck. He was promoted to Associate Producer on Friedberg & Seltzer's film Disaster Movie, and then bumped again to Co-Producer/VFX Supervisor on their films The Starving Games & Superfast! Kenny has continued his acting with small roles in each of Seltzer & Friedberg's movies. He has also worked on other feature films such as "Best Night Ever" (associate producer), "Law Abiding Citizen" (asst. to F. Gary Gray) & the best picture nominated film "The Help" (asst. to Tate Taylor).

Known For

The Help
The Help
7.9
7.9
Superfast!
Superfast!
5.6
5.6
Epic Movie
Epic Movie
2.4
2.4