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Arlene Klasky, an animator, graphic designer, and television producer from Omaha, Nebraska, is of Polish-Jewish and Russian-Jewish heritage. She co-founded the animation studio Klasky Csupo in 1982 alongside Gábor Csupó, who was then her husband.
In the 1980s, Klasky and her studio created logos for TV shows and produced music videos for bands like the Beastie Boys. They also made animated shorts for "Sesame Street," but their most notable work was producing animated shorts about the Simpsons family for "The Tracey Ullman Show."
By 1989, Klasky was mainly focused on raising her two young sons. When Nickelodeon invited her to pitch ideas for a new animated series, she initially believed she had no ideas. Drawing inspiration from her children, she developed a concept about talking infants. Nickelodeon approved the project, which became the long-running series "Rugrats" (1991–2004).
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, her studio produced several other Nickelodeon series. Klasky co-produced the spin-off films "The Rugrats Movie" (1998) and "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie" (2000), both box office successes. She was also credited as co-creator of the sequel series "All Grown Up!" (2003–2008), which featured the Rugrats characters as adolescents.
In 2006, Nickelodeon ended its partnership with Klasky Csupo, though episodes of "All Grown Up!" continued to air. With the loss of its primary client, the studio declined, focusing mainly on a digital comic book and a web series over the following decade.
In 2018, Klasky Csupo began developing a "Rugrats" reboot, with Klasky serving as executive producer. The new series premiered in 2021, featuring CGI animation instead of the traditional animation of the original. As of 2022, at age 72, Klasky remains at the helm of her animation studio.
