Nicole Paradis Grindle
Producer, HOPPERS, Pixar Animation Studios
Nicole Paradis Grindle joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1995 as producer of the “Toy Story Activity Center” interactive computer game. Since then, she has played various production management and producer roles on many of Pixar’s feature films, including “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Monsters University,” and Academy Award®-winning films “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille” and “Toy Story 3.” She recently produced the feature film “Incredibles 2,” which grossed over $1.2 billion in global box office. Grindle most recently produced Pixar’s feature film “Hoppers,” released in March, 2026.
In 2015, Grindle produced the short film “Sanjay’s Super Team,” for which she was nominated for an Academy Award®. In addition to her film work, she has played numerous organizational roles in the studio, producing commercials, broadcast television shorts and promotional material. In 2014, Grindle partnered with Pixar colleague Mary Coleman to create a mentoring program for potential women directors, which bore fruit with the premiere of director Domee Shi’s Academy Award®-winning short film “Bao.”
Grindle came to Pixar with many years of animation production experience. She began her feature film career at Industrial Light and Magic on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and then moved to (Colossal) Pictures where she produced numerous projects including MTV’s groundbreaking short segment “Aeon Flux” which was featured on the program “Liquid Television.”
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Grindle graduated from The University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University. At Penn, she was a writer, actor, director and chair of the all-women’s sketch comedy group “Bloomers,” only learning later in life the genius of delegation. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA.