Jake Wood Biography
Jake Wood is an English actor and podcaster best known for roles in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and in series such as Only Fools and Horses and Red Dwarf.
How old is Jake Wood? – Age
He is 51 years old as of 12 July 2023. He was born in 1972 in Westminster, London, United Kingdom. His real name is Jake Dylan Wood.
Jake Wood Family – Education
Wood was born in Westminster, London, to an English father and French mother. He attended City of London Academy Highbury Grove and studied acting at the Anna Scher Drama School in Islington, North London.
Jake Wood Wife
He resides in Hertfordshire with his wife, Alison, who he married in 2001, and their two children, Buster and Amber.
Jake Wood Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Jake Wood Podcast
In 2018, he began co-hosting the boxing podcast Pound for Pound with Spencer Oliver. Wood co-hosted the boxing podcast Pound for Pound with Spencer Oliver beginning in January 2018. In September 2020, it was revealed that Wood would leave EastEnders after fifteen years in the role, with Max being written out as part of a “explosive exit”. His final performance aired on February 19, 2021.
Jake Wood GEICO
In the United States, he is known as the voice of the GEICO gecko. The Public authority Representatives Insurance Agency (GEICO) is a confidential American collision protection organization situated in Chevy Pursue, Maryland. As the second biggest auto safety net provider in the US, it gives inclusion to north of 24 million engine vehicles claimed by 15 million strategy holders.
GEICO is an auxiliary of Berkshire Hathaway and sells strategies through nearby specialists, calls, and their site. The organization’s mascot is a gold residue day gecko with a Cockney pronunciation. Regardless of its name, GEICO is a confidential enterprise, not an administration organization or government-claimed company. Established in 1936, GEICO oversees strategies as an insurance specialist and has a different client care group for property and umbrella contracts.
Jake Wood Career
His most memorable acting job was in the 1984 TV series The Delicate Touch. He has since showed up in a few TV series including May to December, Minder, Just Idiots and Ponies, Songbirds, Murder As a primary concern, Press Pack, London’s Consuming, Setback, In Profound, Sean’s Show, Monitor Morse Headed to Interruption 1989, Barely hanging on, Red Diminutive person, A Dash of Ice, The Bill, Le Bistro des Rêves, Ocean of Spirits, Doc Martin and The Slim Blue Line.
He has showed up in the movies Flesh (1985) with Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Crimetime (1996) with Stephen Baldwin, Cylinder Stories (1999), The Aryan Couple (2004) and The Illusionist (2006) inverse Edward Norton. Wood featured in the 1989 Business catalog television Advert, named “Party” and, until 2015, was the voice of the GEICO gecko promotions on American TV.
Wood likewise highlighted close by Cobent CTO and ex-Metal Sledge writer Tony Dillon as a feature of a group introducing Snap, a PC games magazine on record in the mid 1990s. In 1989, Wood showed up in Just Blockheads and Ponies as a right hand for Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst), in the episode The Carefree Young men’s Excursion. In the eighth series of Red Bantam he played Kill Insane, a jail prisoner. Wood additionally played the oldest child, Dougie, in sitcom family The Wilsons.
In Walk 1990, Wood depicted the job of Jackson in the BBC drama EastEnders, a minor person who met Diane Butcher (Sophie Lawrence) while she was resting harsh in the city of London. Wood was subsequently cast to play the ordinary person Max Branning from June 2006 to February 2021. In 2014, Wood participated in the twelfth series of Stringently Come Moving. He was joined forces with Janette Manrara, arriving at the semi-last.
In May 2015, Wood reported that he would be requiring an extended break from EastEnders. Wood said “I have been at EastEnders for quite a long time and I feel everything looks good to offer Max a reprieve. It will not be for a really long time as I will be back the following year to see Max face one more part of show.” In 2019, he ran the London Long distance race with a portion of his EastEnders co-stars for a Dementia crusade to pay tribute to Barbara Windsor.
