Michael Nawrocki is an American animator, director, writer and voice actor. He co-created VeggieTales alongside Phil Vischer and voiced dozens of characters including Larry the Cucumber, Jerry Gourd, Scallion #2 and Jean-Claude Pea. Nawrocki also voiced Larry in video games, commercials and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. He would later create Dead Sea Squirrels, a book series and cartoon.
His wife Lisa is Columbian and assists in translating the VeggieTales episodes into Spanish.
He has a daughter named Ally and a son named Michael.
Originally studied to become a pediatrician missionary. But he gave that up as the success of VeggieTales began to rise.
According to the audio commentary of "The Toy That Saved Christmas", Mike was doing a lot of freelance work during the early years of VeggieTales to earn money since Big Idea didn't make a lot of money.