Matt Lucas Net Worth 2024

What is Matt Lucas’s Net Worth and Salary?

Matt Lucas is an English comedian, author, actor and musician who has a net worth of $15 million. Matt Lucas is finest recognized for his pairings with David Walliams on the comedy tv sequence “Little Britain” and “Come Fly With Me.” He additionally had a notable position on the science-fiction sequence “Doctor Who” from 2015 to 2017, and started co-hosting the baking competitors sequence “The Great British Bake Off” in 2020. Additionally, Lucas has appeared on the large display in such movies as “Bridesmaids,” “Small Apartments,” and “Paddington.”

Early Life

Matt Lucas was born on March 5, 1974 in London, England to Diana and John. He is of Jewish ancestry by means of his mom. When he was six years outdated, Lucas misplaced all of his hair as a consequence of alopecia. For his schooling, he went to Aylward Primary School and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. Lucas went on to attend the University of Bristol, however didn’t end his diploma. He additionally carried out with the National Youth Theatre. When Lucas was in his early 20s, his father handed away from a coronary heart assault.

Television Career, Part 1

Lucas started his tv profession partnered with comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. In 1995, he appeared in varied roles on their sketch comedy present “The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer,” and in addition started a long-term starring position alongside them on the comedy panel sport present “Shooting Stars.” Following this, Lucas started his prolific partnership with David Walliams, with whom he first appeared on the sketch present “Mash and Peas”; Lucas additionally wrote the present. In 1997, Lucas appeared on the comedy sequence “Sunnyside Farm” and within the tv movie “It’s Ulrika!” A few years later, he reunited with Reeves and Mortimer on “Bang Bang, It’s Reeves and Mortimer,” and reunited with Walliams on “Sir Bernard’s Stately Homes,” which the pair wrote collectively and starred on. The identical 12 months, Lucas and Walliams created and started starring on the comedy sequence “Rock Profile.”

In the early 2000s, Lucas appeared in episodes of “Fun on the Funeral Parlour” and “Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)”; he additionally portrayed Spanish movie director Luis Buñuel within the tv movie “Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dalí.” His most famed work but got here in 2003 when he started starring alongside David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy sequence “Little Britain,” which the duo additionally wrote. On the sequence, Lucas performed such colourful characters as teenage chav Vicky Pollard, the allegedly disabled Andy Pipkin, and homophobic homosexual man Daffyd Thomas. The massively profitable “Little Britain” ran for 44 episodes by means of 2007.

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Television Career, Part 2

While he was nonetheless on “Little Britain,” Lucas reteamed with Reeves and Mortimer for the BBC sitcom “Catterick.” He additionally appeared in episodes of “French and Saunders,” “Look Around You,” “Casanova,” “Gavin & Stacey,” “Neighbours,” and “Kath & Kim,” and lent his voice to the animated sequence “King Arthur’s Disasters” and “Popetown.” Additionally, Lucas was within the tv movies “AD/BC: A Rock Opera” and “The Wind within the Willows.” Following the conclusion of “Little Britain” within the UK, Lucas and Walliams launched an American spinoff for HBO known as “Little Britain USA.” Lucas subsequent appeared on the sequence “Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire.”

In 2010, Lucas reunited with Walliams to create and star on the BBC mockumentary sequence “Come Fly With Me.” He went on to seem in episodes of such American exhibits as “Portlandia,” “Community,” “Super Fun Night,” and “Fresh Off the Boat.” Lucas returned to the UK in 2015 to create, write, co-direct, and star on the comedy sequence “Pompidou.” That 12 months, he additionally started taking part in Nardole on the science-fiction sequence “Doctor Who.” Lucas was subsequently in episodes of a number of exhibits each within the US and UK, together with “Man Seeking Woman,” “Bull,” “Galavant,” “Mack & Moxy,” and “Stella.” In 2020, he started co-hosting the cooking competitors sequence “The Great British Bake Off” alongside Noel Fielding.

Film Career

Lucas made his first appearances on the large display within the late 90s with roles in “Jilting Joe” and “Plunkett & Macleane.” His most generally seen movie position(s) got here in 2010 when he performed Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton’s adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” Also that 12 months, he performed a rabbi within the comedy “The Infidel.” In 2011, Lucas appeared within the hit comedy “Bridesmaids” and voiced the character Benny within the animated movie “Gnomeo & Juliet.” His subsequent credit had been “Small Apartments,” “The Look of Love,” “In Secret,” “The Harry Hill Movie,” and “Paddington.” In 2016, Lucas reprised his roles as Tweedlee and Tweedledum in “Alice Through the Looking Glass.” A few years after that, he reprised his position as Benny in “Sherlock Gnomes.” Lucas’s different credit have included “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” “Polar,” “Missing Link,” and “Wonka.”

Stage Career

In 2002, Lucas made his first foray into stage musicals with a job in “Taboo.” Later, in 2010, he appeared within the 25^th Anniversary Concert manufacturing of “Les Misérables,” taking part in the position of Thénardier. He reprised this position the following 12 months on the West End, and once more in 2019. Among his different stage credit, Lucas acted in a revival of “Me and My Girl.”

Personal Life

Lucas is homosexual, having suspected this when he was solely seven years outdated. In late 2006, he started a civil partnership together with his boyfriend Kevin McGee; the pair ultimately ended the partnership and separated in 2008.

In 2021, Lucas grew to become a German citizen.