Matt Lucas Biography
Matt Lucas is a comedian, writer, and television host from England known for his work on the BBC sketch comedy programs Little Britain and Comes Fly with Me with David Walliams. In addition to Astro Boy, Alice in Wonderland, Bridesmaids, Gnomeo & Juliet, Small Apartments, and Paddington, he has appeared in a number other films. From 2020 to 2023, he co-hosted The Great British Bake Off with Noel Fielding.
How old is Matt Lucas? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 5 March 2023. He was born in 1974 in Paddington, London, United Kingdom.
Matt Lucas Family
Matt is the son of Diana and John Stanley Lucas, the proprietor of a chauffeuring firm. His family is Jewish, and members of his mother’s family left Nazi Germany right before WWII. He was reared in a Reform Jewish home despite the fact that his parents were from Orthodox Jewish backgrounds. He suffered from alopecia throughout childhood, before losing all of his hair at the age of six in 1980. Lucas’ father died of a heart attack when he was 22 years old, at the age of 52.
Does Matt Lucas have a Partner?
Lucas is a gay man. He became aware of his sexual orientation when he was seven years old. In December 2006, he married Kevin McGee in a civil partnership ceremony in Central London. Barbara Windsor, Neil Tennant, Elton John, and Courtney Love were among those in attendance. In 2008, they divorced and had their civil partnership dissolved by the High Court.
Matt Lucas Education
In Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Lucas attended Aylward Primary School and Haberdashers’ Boys’ School. Between 1992 through 1995, he studied drama at the University of Bristol, although he did not complete his degree. He also worked at the National Youth Theatre, where he met future colleague David Walliams.
What is the Net Worth of Matt Lucas?
He has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
How did Matt Lucas Lose Weight? – Weight Loss
Matt followed a fairly straightforward regimen in order to achieve success in his weight loss journey, which included increasing his walking and reducing his bad eating habits. On the episode, he discussed how he increased his activity via walking. He also admitted to eating less, but he doesn’t believe in denying yourself of the foods you enjoy.
Matt Lucas Doctor Who
Lucas returned to the BBC series Doctor Who for the tenth series, reprising his role as Nardole, which he had previously performed in the 2015 and 2016 Christmas specials, “The Husbands of River Song” and “The Return of Doctor Mysterio.”
Matt Lucas Blackface
In 2020, Lucas and his Little Britain co-star David Walliams apologized for employing racial caricatures to portray characters, “including an obese Caribbean woman called Desiree DeVere, portrayed in blackface, and a ‘portly Thai bride’ called Ting Tong.” This was motivated by the removal of the show from Netflix and BBC iPlayer’s catalogs.
Matt Lucas Taboo
Lucas made his theatrical musical debut in 2002, when he appeared in Boy George’s musical Taboo at The Venue in London. He portrayed the performer Leigh Bowery.
Matt Lucas Little Britain
Lucas’ most commercially successful piece is Little Britain. Ashley Blaker, a trainee BBC radio producer entrusted with coming up with concepts for a television or radio series, ran across Lucas in London. The two were old Haberdashers’ pals, and Lucas took Blaker to the Groucho Club, where he told Blaker about his sketch show ideas. Little Britain began as a radio broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and eventually became a television series.
Among the various characters he portrays in the series, which he co-creates and co-writes with David Walliams, are the supposedly “disabled” Andy Pipkin, the young Bristol chav Vicky Pollard, the homophobic homosexual Daffyd Thomas, and the insensitive slimming club manager Marjorie Dawes. Radio Times ranked Lucas and Walliams the most powerful figures in TV comedy in January 2005.
Matt Lucas Movies
♦ 2023 – Wonka
♦ 2022 – I Came By
♦ 2019 – Polar
♦ 2019 – Missing Link
♦ 2019 – The Queen’s Corgi
♦ 2019 – Les Misérables: The Staged Concert
♦ 2018 – A Futile and Stupid Gesture
♦ 2018 – Sherlock Gnomes
♦ 2017 – How to Talk to Girls at Parties
♦ 2016 – Alice Through the Looking Glass
♦ 2014 – Paddington
♦ 2013 – The Look of Love
♦ 2013 – In Secret
Matt Luca TV Shows
♦ 2022— – Fantasy Football League
♦ 2022 – Deep Heat
♦ 2021 – The Masked Singer
♦ 2021 – 50 Years of Mr Men with Matt Lucas
♦ 2021 – Legends of Tomorrow
♦ 2021 – RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
♦ 2021 – Gogglebox for Stand Up to Cancer
♦ 2020—2023 – The Great British Bake Off
♦ 2020 – Reasons to Be Cheerful with Matt Lucas
♦ 2019 – Moominvalley
♦ 2018 – Who Is America?
♦ 2017 – Bill Nye Saves the World
♦ 2017 – Stella
♦ 2016 – Bull
♦ 2016 – Galavant
♦ 2016 – Mack & Moxy
