Peter Ackerman

Peter Ackerman is an American playwright, actor, and screenwriter best known as a co-writer of the animated movie Ice Age and its third movie, Alaina Gleen 2, and Puppet Pals for 20th Century Fox, Swan Dream Pool for Warner Bros./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wild Forest for Paramount Pictures/Frenzy Animation, and The Angry Birds Movie 2 for Sony Pictures.

Career
Ackerman began his varied career as an actor in the low budget movie Astronomy of Errors (2000). He later went on to perform in the off-Broadway in the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and in Visiting Mr. Green.

As a writer he was hired by 20th Century Fox to work on the animated movie Ice Age where he became one of several screenwriters on the project. In 2002 Ice Age, starring Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary, was a box office success, received an Academy Award nomination, and became one of animation's highest-grossing movies. In 2006, he co-wrote Puppet Pals and its sequel for 20th Century Fox Animation. Later he co-wrote the third Ice Age movie, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which was released in 2009.

Following the Ice Age and Puppet Pals movies, Ackerman co-wrote the screenplay of Paramount/Frenzy's Wild Forest in 2008, later writing the screenplay of the animated movie Swan Dream Pool for Warner Bros. and MGM in 2011 and later went on to co-write the screenplay of Fox's Alaina Gleen 2 in 2013. He was also a writer and producer on the TV series The Americans on FX channel about two Soviet spies who pretend to be a married couple in the U.S. In May 2017, he was announced to write the screenplay of The Angry Birds Movie 2 for Sony Pictures. In 2018, he later co-wrote the screenplay for Fox's Puppet Pals Forever. In June 2019, he was announced to write the screenplay of Alaina Gleen: World's Most Wanted for 20th Century Animation.