Matt Lucas's Life
Comedian, Matt Lucas was born on 5 March 1974. He grew up in Stanmore, Middlesex and attended Haberdashers' Aske's.
He lost his hair from alopecia when young and when Matt Lucas was a teenager, his father was sentenced to four years prison for fraud.
Matt Lucas first met his long-time collaborator David Walliams at the National Youth Theatre, and they caught up with each other again at Bristol University. Together they worked up a routine around a character Sir Bernard Chumley.
Lucas played Chumley in 1994, 1995 and 1996 at the Edinburgh Festival.
His major television work includes The Smell Of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer, and Randall and Hopkirk.
He also teamed up with Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves on Shooting Stars, where he played George Dawes, who, dressed as a baby, played the drums exuberantly whilst giving the scores.
Not just a performer, Matt Lucas also wrote for Da Ali G Show.
Matt Lucas and David Walliams have made a huge impact with Little Britain, which was originally a radio show. Little Britain went from Radio 4 to BBC3 to terrestrial BBC.
The comedy series has won a number of 'gongs'. As a radio show it picked up a Silver Sony Award and then as a TV series it has won various awards including Royal Television Society Awards and BAFTAs.
Lucas and Walliams also did well at the British Comedy Awards 2005, when they won the inaugural Ronnie Barker writer of the year award and Little Britain won best TV comedy.
Melvyn Bragg, in discussing why the South Bank Show was making a programme about David Walliams and Matt Lucas, compared the Little Britain creators to the originators of The Goon Show because "they are hitting new heights of comedy".
Matt Lucas's main interests are television and Arsenal. Bob Mortimer once described him as "the angriest man I have ever met".
In December 2006 Matt Lucas and TV producer Kevin McGee had a civil partnership ceremony.
On 3 January 2008, Matt Lucas was the first highjacker on Big Brother: Celebrity Highjack.
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