Stephen Hillenburg
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 Stephen Hillenburg facts

• A former marine-biology teacher, he created SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–), which has gone on to become one of the longest-running American television series as well as the highest-rated show ever to air on Nickelodeon
• Born in Lawton, Oklahoma and raised in Anaheim, California, Hillenburg became fascinated with the ocean as a child and also developed an interest in art
• He started his professional career in 1984, instructing marine biology, at the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point, California, where he wrote The Intertidal Zone, an educational comic book about tide-pool animals, which he used to teach his students
• In 1989, Hillenburg enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts to pursue a career in animation
• He was later offered a job on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996) after his success with animated short films The Green Beret and Wormholes (both 1992), which he made while studying animation
• In 1994, Hillenburg began developing The Intertidal Zone characters and concepts for what became SpongeBob SquarePants
• The show premiered in 1999 and has since aired 209 episodes
• He also directed The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), for which he received a nomination for an Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production
• Hillenburg's decision was to end the television series once the film was completed; however, Nickelodeon wanted to produce more episodes, so he resigned as the showrunner
• He returned to making animated short films, with Hollywood Blvd