Lavell Crawford Biography
Lavell Maurice Crawford is an American comedian and actor best known for his role as Huell Babineaux in Breaking Bad (2011-2013) and its spinoff Better Call Saul (2017-2022). Crawford started performing stand-up comedy professionally in 1990. Throughout the 1990s, he was a frequent guest on BET’s ComicView.
Age
Lavell was born on 11 November 1968, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She is 55 years old as of November 2023.
Height
She stands at a height of 5′ 10″ (1.78 m).
Education- Family
Crawford was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in adjacent Pagedale. He has two sisters: Elonda and Erica. Crawford graduated from Pattonville High School in 1986 and attended Missouri Western State College, where he studied computer science.
Weight Loss
As a youth, he struggled with his weight and nearly drowned at the age of ten.[Crawford’s weight peaked in March 2016 at around 500 pounds (230 kilograms). By August 2017, he had lost 298 pounds (135 kg) following gastric sleeve surgery.
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Career
Crawford started doing stand-up comedy in 1990. She was a regular on BET’s ComicView in the 1990s. In 2007, he competed on NBC’s “The Last Comedy” but lost to Jon Reep in the two-hour season finale. In 2011, she recorded the song “LaVell Crawford: Can a Brother Get Some Love” at the Roberts Orpheum Theater in St. Petersburg.Crawford played Huell Babineaux, Saul Goodman’s character bodyguard, in the crime drama Breaking Bad from 2011 to 2022, and fans better call him Saul from 2011 to 2022. “Breaking Bad.” Crawford has also appeared on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Tosh.0, The Tonight Show with Larry Wilmore, and The Aqua TV Show.He also played the role of Gus Patch in the Netflix original movie The Ridiculous 6 (2015). The album version of the 2021 comedy Vaccine Special was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 64th Grammy Awards.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
Movies
2017–2022 Better Call
2017 New Girl
2016–2017 Legends of Chamberlain Heights
2015 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
2014 Super Fun Night
2014 Biatches
2013–2015 Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2013 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2013 Squidbillies
2013 The Crazy Ones
2011–2013 Breaking Bad
2011 Workaholics
2009 My Parents, My Sister and Me