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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1974-03-05
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageMatt Lucas
Biography
Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011).
Lucas first came to prominence on the comedy panel show Shooting Stars, in which he portrayed scorekeeper George Dawes from 1995 to 2009. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed the role of Nardole in the BBC series Doctor Who.
He has also appeared in films, including Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Infidel (2010), The Harry Hill Movie (2013), Paddington (2014), A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), and The Queen's Corgi (2019). Lucas presented The Great British Bake Off, alongside Noel Fielding from 2020 to 2023.
Matthew Richard Lucas was born on 5 March 1974 in the Paddington area of west London, the son of Diana (née Williams; born 1945) and chauffeuring business owner John Stanley Lucas (1944–1996).
His family is Jewish; some of his mother's family fled Nazi Germany just before the Second World War. He was raised in a Reform Jewish household although his parents came from Orthodox Jewish families.
He has had alopecia since childhood, before he lost all of his hair at the age of 6 in 1980. When Lucas was 22, his father died of a heart attack.
