Frank Woodley Biography
Frank Woodley is an Australian comedian, novelist, and musician best known for his collaboration with Colin Lane as part of the humorous combo Lano and Woodley.
How old is Frank Woodley? – Age
He is 56 years old as of 29 February 2024. He was born in 1968 in Melbourne, Australia.
Frank Woodley Family
Woodley was born as Frank Wood, the youngest of seven children. He was raised in suburban Melbourne, where his family had a milk bar in Glen Waverley. When he joined the comedy duo Lano and Woodley in 1993, he took on the stage name “Frank Woodley” based on a childhood nickname. To avoid misunderstanding, he legally changed his name in 2000.
Is Frank Woodley married? – Children
Woodley is married, has a son and a daughter, and resides in Melbourne’s inner north.
Frank Woodley Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $17 million.
Frank Woodley Woodley
Woodley, a television project, premiered in 2012. It’s a half-hour visual comedy about a seemingly innocent individual who gets caught up in real-life situations. The series chronicles his attempts to bond with his daughter and estranged wife (Justine Clarke), but this proves difficult for the accident-prone Woodley, who is attempting to move on with her life with her new lover Greg. The performance was unveiled among a number of other projects as part of the Victorian government’s $1.2 million financing initiative. The show premiered on ABC1 on Wednesday, February 22, at 8 p.m. The comedy relies heavily on visual (sometimes slapstick) humour rather than words, which is also utilized infrequently.
Frank Woodley Stand-Up
Woodley made his performance debut in 2003 at the Melbourne Global Parody Celebration with The Cheerful Dickwi, a show about “a ton of irrelevant ideas”.He has since played out various performance stand-up shows, and in 2008 appeared a one-man play entitled Had. Coordinated by Kate Denborough and highlighting music from Paul Macintosh, Had is the narrative of Louie, a forlorn hermit who goes gaga for, and becomes moved by, the phantom of a nineteenth century wreck casualty.
The show has visited both broadly and globally, and draws motivation from Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Wear Adams, Peter Merchants, Jerry Lewis and Shrub and Tough.
Woodley, an Australian joke artist, acquired distinction in 1998 for his job as Candid Woodley in the television series The Games. He has made various visitor appearances on Australian TV, including Spicks and Spots, Uplifting news Week, and The Sideshow. In 2008, he showed up in a progression of notices for Metlink advancing public vehicle in Melbourne. Woodley additionally acted in the stage show The Total Works of William Shakespeare (Condensed) in 2007.
From 2008 to 2009, he co-facilitated a show on The Parody Channel called Aussie Gold. In 2012, he played a little part in the Australian parody film Kath and Kimderella and co-featured in Crackpot in 2015. Woodley is likewise a kids’ writer and has composed a progression of youngsters’ books called Kizmet. He won the fabulous award in the primary Australian time of the Amazon Prime parody contest series Haha: Last One Snickering in 2020.
Frank Woodley Lano and Woodley
Woodley originally performed with individual humorist Colin Path as a feature of the couple Lano and Woodley for a time of very nearly 20 years. The two met through theatresports during the 1980s and first performed together at an open mike night at the Ruler Patrick Lodging in Collingwood, Victoria, in 1987 alongside their companion Scott Casley, calling themselves the Tracked down Items.
Over the course of the following six years, the threesome acted in settings all through Australia and at the Edinburgh Celebration Periphery. They became semi-regulars on ABC television’s The Huge Gig, a show known for helping the professions of new satire acts. They likewise had their own business public broadcast for a considerable length of time and were important for the fleeting Seven Organization sketch show The Satire Deal. In 1992, when Casley moved to Alice Springs, Woodley and Path chose to go on as a team, drawing their name from youth epithets.
As Lano and Woodley, the two take on clever in front of an audience personas, with Woodley playing a “silly blameless” who is much of the time tormented by Path’s bombastic, controlling person. Their most memorable show as a satire team, Wall, appeared in 1993. It visited all through Australia, winning the Moosehead Grant at the Melbourne Global Satire Celebration for best demonstration and was in the long run taken to the Edinburgh Celebration Periphery in 1994 where it won the Perrier Parody Grant. Ensuing live creations have included Drapes, Alluring, Smooth, Bruiser, The Island and their 2006 goodbye show, Farewell. In 2000, they co-facilitated the broadcast Melbourne Parody Occasion.
Woodley and Path have made two network shows together. The Undertakings of Lano and Woodley, which debuted on the ABC in 1997, was a parody series which highlighted the team living respectively in a made up rural Melbourne level and much of the time causing problems. It broadcasted for two seasons, turning into the principal Australian show to be offered to the BBC and circulating in 38 different nations.
In spite of the fact that they were offered the chance to make the series in Britain, the pair chose to stay in Australia since they would have rather not live in London. In 2004 a live show, The Island, was shot as a television exceptional and broadcasted on The Parody Station. The pair have likewise delivered a collection, Lano and Woodley Sing Melodies, and a novel, Housemeeting.
In 2006, after near 20 years of cooperating, Woodley and Path chose to head out in different directions. Woodley expressed that the split was because of a longing to seek after new difficulties. “We just got to the stage where we believed we needed to settle on a choice”, he said. “Possibly we planned to go through the following 20 years doing this, this’d be our vocation, our lives until the end of time.
Furthermore, that could never have been something horrible. Or on the other hand we could go, ‘We should have a smidgen more assortment in our lives’.” In one last visit, the pair went through 37 Australian urban communities with their goodbye show, Farewell. In 2018, the couple repeated their jobs as Lano and Woodley for a show named Fly which won the 2018 Melbourne Satire Celebration Individuals’ Decision Grant.