Brian Henson

Brian Henson born November 3 1963 is an American puppeteer filmmaker actor and the chairman of The Jim Henson Company He is the son of puppeteers Jim and Jane Henson Henson was born on November 3 1963 in New York City the third child of Jane Henson née Nebel 19342013 and Jim Henson 19361990 He has four siblings Lisa born 1960 Cherylborn 1961 John 19652014 and Heather Henson born 1970 As a child Henson appeared in some of the filmed segments that his father produced for the PBS childrens series Sesame Street As a teenager he built the first Muppet penguin puppet for the opening Lullaby of Broadway segment of a Season 3 episode of The Muppet Show During his summer break from high school at the age of 17 Henson assisted in the production of The Great Muppet Caper 1981 skilled in the use of marionette puppets he helped create and operate a special rigging device that allowed the Muppets to appear to ride bicycles Several years later after performing marionette work in The Muppets Take Manhattan 1984 in the scene in which rats cook food in a diner he specialized in managing complicated special effects Henson performed Jack Pumpkinhead in Return to Oz 1985 operated special effects for Santa Claus The Movie 1985 and was a principal performer for the Audrey II puppet in Little Shop of Horrors 1986 controlling mouth movement while others performed the lips and vines He also performed the voice of Hoggle one of the main characters in his fathers film Labyrinth1986 and the dog in both versions of The Storyteller 1988 and 1990 In 1992 Henson directed The Muppet Christmas Carol and directed the next film in the franchise Muppet Treasure Island in 1996 He performed the role of Dr Phil van Neuter the Muppet mad scientist character he performed on Muppets Tonight in Muppets from Space1999 In 2018 he directed and produced The Happytime Murders a puppet crimecomedy film for adult audiences Henson was the executive producer for several television series Dinosaurs 199194 Aliens in the Family 1996 Bear in the Big Blue House 19972006 and Farscape 19992003 In addition to assuming an executive producer role Henson served as the head judge on the 2014 reality television show Jim Hensons Creature Shop Challenge He performed the roles of Janice and Scooter in the 2002 television film Its a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie Henson returned to perform Sal Minella a character he created for Muppets Tonight in Muppets Haunted Mansion 2021 Henson is the cocreator producer and performer for the adultthemed puppetbased variety show Puppet Up and has played various characters from the show on the British program That Puppet Game Show For The Muppet Show Live in 2001 Henson performed his Muppet characters and one of his fathers characters The Newsman for the first time He reprised the role for the 2003 video game Muppets Party Cruise Henson married Ellis Flyte costume designer for the 1986 fantasy adventure film Labyrinth in November 1990 They divorced in 2002 In 2010 Henson married actress Mia Sara They have one child a daughter born in 2005 Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Henson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia