Matt Lucas

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Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English comedian, actor and writer.

He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the television shows Little Britain and Come Fly with Me, as well portraying Nardole in Doctor Who and as his appearances on Shooting Stars.

Early life

Matthew Richard Lucas was born on 5 March 1974 in the Paddington area of London, the son of Diana (née Williams; born 1945) and chauffeuring business owner John Stanley Lucas (1944–1996). His family was Jewish; some of his mother's family fled Nazi Germany just before the Second World War. He has had alopecia since childhood, losing all of his hair at the age of 6. When Lucas was 22, his father died of a heart attack at the age of 52.

Lucas was educated at Aylward Primary School and Haberdashers Boys' School in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, the same school attended by comedians David Baddiel and Sacha Baron Cohen. He studied drama at the University of Bristol between 1992 and 1995, although he did not complete his degree. He also spent time with the National Youth Theatre, where he met his future collaborator David Walliams.

Personal life

Lucas is a patron of the Karen Morris Memorial Trust, a UK charity for leukaemia patients and their families. In April 2003, he appeared on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and won £62,500 for the charity.

Lucas is gay. He first suspected his sexuality at age seven. At a ceremony in Central London in December 2006, he entered into a civil partnership with Kevin McGee. In attendance were Barbara Windsor, Neil Tennant, Elton John, and Courtney Love. They separated and had their civil partnership dissolved through the High Court in 2008.

Lucas was raised as Jewish but has variously described himself as an atheist and a "fairly secular Jew". On 16 June 2022, he was the subject of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? and discovered that many of his grandmother's cousins had been killed in the Holocaust. His grandmother's cousin Werner Goldschmidt rented a room from Otto Frank, in Amsterdam in 1942, and was living with the family when they went into hiding. In 2021, 83 years after his grandmother fled Berlin, Lucas obtained German citizenship and collected a Certificate of Naturalisation from the German embassy.

He supports Arsenal.

From 2012 to 2015, Lucas lived with his Bridesmaids co-star Rebel Wilson in West Hollywood.

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Career

Lucas's relationship with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer began in 1992. In 1995, he appeared in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Mortimer, before going on to act with them in Shooting Stars. When sitting at and playing a drum kit, George Dawes, a massive baby (often dressed in an adult-size romper suit), would provide a series of ridiculous gags and insults before delivering the teams' scores. Marjorie Dawes, George's mother who also appears in Little Britain, appeared on occasion as Marjorie Dawes, George's mother.

In the BBC TV series Randall & Mortimer (Deceased) and Catterick, he appeared with Reeves & Mortimer in a variety of roles. Lucas partnered with David Walliams, with whom he had already worked in Mash and Peas, and Sir Bernard's Stately Homes, in 1999 to create Rock Profile, a comedy show spoofing well-known musical personalities. It's one of their first comedic collaborations. Lucas has also written about actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

Damien Hirst-directed video for Blur's "Country House," "I'm with Stupid" by Ben Folds in 2005, and Fat Les' "Vindaloo" were among his music video appearances.

Lucas first got involved in stage musicals in 2002 when he appeared in Boy George's musical Taboo at The Venue in London. Leigh Bowery, the performance actor, appeared on Leigh Bowery.

Lucas' most commercially profitable work is in Little Britain. When Brenda Blaker, a trainee BBC radio producer, was tasked with coming up with proposals for a television or radio series, was bumped into Lucas in London, it came about. Blaker and Lucas were taken to the Groucho Club, where he told Blaker of his plans for a sketch show. On BBC Radio 4, Little Britain was first introduced as a radio show on BBC Radio 4, and it later became a TV show.

Andy Pipkin, a teenage Bristol chav, homophobic homosexual Daffyd Thomas, and insensitive slimming club organiser Marjorie Dawes are among the many characters in the series, which he writes and performs alongside David Walliams.

Lucas and Walliams were voted the most influential people in television comedy by Radio Times in January 2005.

He appeared in a television drama for the first time in 2005, playing a Venetian duke in Russell T Davies' BBC historical serial Casanova. In 2005, he performed voice work in the ITV children's program King Arthur's Disasters, as well as Rik Mayall. Lucas has been the voice of the radio and television character Digit Al, which was developed as part of a public information drive on digital changeover. He appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs on November 26, 2006. As Tom, the cousin of Shaun's friend Yvonne, he made a cameo appearance in Shaun of the Dead.

He performed "I'm Gonna Be" in 2007, a Proclaimers' charity single for Comic Relief, along with Peter Kay. Andy Pipkin, a Little Britain character, appeared on the single, as well as Kay playing Brian Potter. Mr. Toad appeared in The Wind in the Willows, a 2006 television adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame novel.

In the BBC Three sitcom Gavin & Stacey, he has appeared in Kath & Kim and Neighbours (the latter with David Walliams as Little Britain characters Lou and Andy), as well as a cameo role, playing 'Chris' or 'Jammy' at the wedding fayre. Lucas has co-written (with Walliams) and appeared in a new series of Little Britain USA for HBO. Lucas was the first celebrity to appear on E4 in 2008's Big Brother Celebrity Hijack.

Lucas's character, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, premiered on Comedy Central on April 9, the first major comedy series on which Lucas had appeared since Little Britain. In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Lucas played Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Lucas began hosting And The Winner Is, his own radio show, in which he gave out a fictional series of awards based on nominations from his guests.

Lucas appeared in the 25th Anniversary Concerts of Les Misérables on October 3rd in London. He reprised his appearance in the West End a year later, from 23 June to September 2011. On Boe's debut album, he's since collaborated with Alfie Boe, who played Jean Valjean, to record a duet of "The Impossible Dream."

Lucas also contributed to the CGI film Gnomeo and Juliet in 2011, and he appeared in the comedy Bridesmaids as Kristen Wiig's roommate.

Come Fly with Me, Lucas and David Walliams' latest series, on Christmas Day 2010, was broadcast on the BBC. Walliams and Lucas were each playing multiple characters on the show, but unlike Little Britain, it was solely based on the airline industry's working environment. In an interview on BBC 3 on Tuesday, it was announced that the creators had considered adding travel agent Carol Beer from Little Britain to the new series but decided against it because viewers did not want to see the new show as simply a spinoff. Rather, all new characters were introduced.

Lucas appeared on "Bout Your Generation" on the Australian game show Talking Out 'Bout Your Generation" on March 28, 2012. The Matt Lucas Awards, Lucas' own BBC One show, premiered on April 10, 2012. It was a send-up to an awards program, with a panel of comedians nominating for a number of prizes related to trivial topics.

In addition, Lucas appeared in the dark comedy Small Apartments, released in February 2013, alongside James Caan, Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, and Juno Temple with other notable cameo appearances. Lucas appeared on NBC's Community as Toby, an English friend of Abed Nadir. Lucas appeared in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern in 2014.

For BBC Two, Lucas created Pompidou, a new comedy series. On March 1, 2015, the program first premiered.

Lucas portrayed "Tweedledee/Tweedledum" in Tim Burton's Alice Through the Looking Glass, a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, in May 2016. Lucas starred in "The Husbands of River Song" and "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" respectively, a BBC series based on Nardole, which he had previously appeared in the 2015 and 2016 Christmas specials.

Lucas received an Honorary Degree "Doctor of Letters" by the University of Bristol on February 16, 2017, where he had worked for two years in the 1990s but had to leave before finishing his degree program. Lucas' autobiography titled Little Me, which was published by Canongate Books in hardback on October 3, 2017. On June 7, 2018, the paperback edition was published.

Lucas appeared in a revival of Me and My Girl at Chichester Festival Theatre from 2 July to August 2018.

Lucas appeared in Les Misérables at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End from ten August to ten November 2019 in a completely staged concert revival of the musical. Lucas returned to the Sondheim Theatre on December 20, 2019, after actor Gerard Carey was forced to pull out due to vocal disease due to pneumonia. Lucas himself was forced to leave the show after a back injury on January 10, 2020.

In March 2020, he became the new co-host of the Channel 4 and Love Productions television show The Great British Bake Off, taking over from Sandi Toksvig.

Lucas released a reworked version of his "Baked Potato Song" from Shooting Stars on April 3, 2020, with all proceeds from the campaign going to the Feed NHS initiative, which aims to provide meals to NHS workers in the UK's midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. The chart has a 34th position. Lucas also wrote a children's picture book based on "Thank You, Baked Potato," which was released by Egmont, with the proceeds going to Feed NHS.

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