The inspiration for Eddie Murphy's beloved donkey from the Shrek movies has died ... animated equine was based on one very specific real-life donkey. That's right, while animators didn't have ...

It's a sad day for fans of Shrek. Because everyone's favorite wisecracker Donkey is dead. Well, at least, the real-life inspiration is. Perry the miniature donkey has died at 30. Throughout its ...

Travel fanatics have been left frantically booking airplane tickets after discovering that the church from Shrek may have ...

A REAL-life donkey that inspired Eddie Murphy's character in Shrek has died aged 30. Born in New York in 1994, Perry rose to fame after animators modelled the Donkey character in the original 2001 ...

Pericles, fondly known as Perry, was born in New York City in 1994 and gained recognition as the real-life inspiration for the beloved character Donkey in the 2001 animated classic Shrek.

Perry, the real-life donkey who inspired the animated character Donkey in the 2001 film Shrek, has passed away at the age of ...

Shrek’s chatty but good-natured sidekick. His team had completed the character’s basic design but still needed a model for how a real-life donkey moved. At the time, Grignon’s wife happened ...

Perry, the beloved real-life stand-in for the “Shrek” donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy, has died. He was 30. The donkey’s handlers announced his passing on Instagram, detailing that it was from ...

Perry, the beloved donkey who served as the real-life inspiration for Eddie Murphy’s animated character Donkey in the 2001 blockbuster Shrek, has died at the age of 30. His passing was confirmed ...

Perry, whose full name was Pericles, was born in New York City in 1994 and quickly rose to local fame when animators working on the 2001 animated classic Shrek adopted him as their real-life model ...