You may have heard of it. Indeed, Perry was the miniature donkey whose physical appearance was the model for Eddie Murphy’s Donkey in the Shrek films – the first of which was released in 2001 ...

Perry, the beloved real-life stand-in for the “Shrek” donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy, has died. He was 30 ... where he lived before and after his movie-star years, wrote. “He was a beloved member of ...

The inspiration for Eddie Murphy's beloved donkey from the Shrek movies has died. Although Murphy is 100 percent responsible for the personality of the donkey (just named "Donkey") the appearance of ...

A real-life donkey who served ... the donkey who modeled for the movie ‘Shrek’, passed away at the age of 30. Instagram / Barron Park Donkeys Donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy, served as the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The miniature donkey that was the motion model for Eddie Murphy's character Donkey ... Throughout his long life here, Perry captured the hearts of the Barron Park community ...

Mike Holland, one of his former handlers, told CBS News Bay Area in 2024 that Perry “reinvented himself as a movie star” when a local animator for Pacific Data Images, who was hired to animate “Shrek, ...

Perry’s handlers said he won the hearts of visitors ‘with his beautiful soulful eyes and his sweet and gentle disposition’ ...

Voiced by Eddie Murphy ... The first movie in the Shrek franchise followed the title character, an anti-social and bad-tempered ogre whose simple life is disrupted when the evil Lord Farquaad ...

Perry, who lived at the private Barron Park Donkey pasture in Palo Alto, California, was just three years old when directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson identified him as a muse for the fictional ...

Murphy is set to produce the film through Eddie Murphy Productions, while Clinton is also on board as an executive producer.

A REAL-life donkey that inspired Eddie Murphy's character in Shrek has died ... the Donkey character in the original 2001 Shrek movie based on him. Perry’s death was announced on the Barron ...