Audel LaRoque

Audel LaRoque (born under Jalal al-Ahmad) is an Kuwaiti-American actor, writer and animator best known for his work on The Jeff Jones Show and Greeny Phatom.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Audel was born Jalal al-Ahmad in Kuwait City, Kuwait to a American expat father and a Kuwaiti mother. They moved to his father's hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, United States when he was just 5 years old.
Audel attended Rainbow All Ages School in Topeka. He was excessively bullied at school and none of his peers understood him, he eventually got so fed up with the excessive bullying that he burned his school down by lighting several lockers on fire. Today a Walmart stands on the site of his school.
Audel and his parents moved to Canada to evade arrest, and he attended Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, and later gained a job on The Jeff Jones Show.
=== Later years ===
After The Jeff Jones Show was cancelled in 1994, his childhood friend Kristian Michaels told him that fellow Jeff Jones animator/filming director Robert Stainton was working on a series for the Fox Kids children's block named Greeny Phatom, and that Robert needed a story board artist for the series, Audel then contacted Robert through a BBS message board, and he eventually got a job as storyboard artist and writer on Greeny Phatom.
LaRoque still works on Greeny Phatom to this day, and currently lives in a restored 76 gas station on the outskirts of Kansas City, which he also sells gas out of. He is married to his African-American childhood love intrest Darius Kołodziejska. He has 4 children.
== Filmography ==
* The Jeff Jones Show (1984-1994) - animator
* Greeny Phatom (1995-present) - storyboard artist, writer
* Fireman Sam (2003-2005) - creative consultant (series 5 only)
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