Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, and writer. He is best known for co-creating, co-writing, and starring in The Office, a British mockumentary comedy on television.
Ricky Gervais: Age and Childhood
Ricky Dene Gervais was born on June 25, 1961, in Reading, England. His father, Lawrence Raymond Gervais, was a Franco-Ontarian who served as a foreign serviceman in England during WWII. Eva Sophia née House, his mother, was an English-born housewife. Ricky was the youngest of his parents’ four children, with two older brothers, Larry and Robert, and an elder sister, Marsha.
He began his education at Whitney Infant School before transferring to Whitney Junior School. Ricky Gervais graduated from University College London with an upper second-class honors degree in philosophy before enrolling at the University of London. However, he never graduated from there.
Ricky Gervais: Weight and Height
Ricky Gervais stands 5’9″ tall. He weighs roughly 60 kg (121 lbs). He has warm brown eyes and brown hair. There is no information about his chest-waist-hip measurements, dress size, shoe size, biceps, or other body measurements.
Net Worth and Salary
How much money does Ricky Gervais have? Ricky Gervais, a British-born actor, comedian, writer, and director, has a net worth of $14 million as of February 2023. He made the vast majority of his fortune as the creator of the television show The Office.
Career
Gervais formed Seona Dancing with his friend Bill Macrae in June 1982 while studying at UCL. Many of the songs they co-wrote were sung by Gervais while Macrae played the piano. They eventually recorded a demo tape of sixteen songs and signed with London Records.
He contributed comic skits to ‘Bruiser,’ a BBC Two comedy sketch show, in 2000. Later that year, he started appearing on Channel 4’s extremely successful ‘The 11 O’Clock Show’ on a regular basis.
Following his success on ‘The 11 O’Clock Show,’ Gervais began hosting his own chat show, ‘Meet Ricky Gervais,’ on Channel 4. Each show aired on Friday evenings and featured two famous guests. The show, however, was only on from September 22 to October 27, 2000.
In the animated science fiction comedy film ‘Escape from Planet Earth,’ he played Mr. James Bing, a sarcastic computer. He starred as the villain Dominic Badguy/The Lemur in ‘Muppets Most Wanted’ in 2014, and as Dr. McPhee in ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.’
In 2014, Gervais began writing the story for ‘Special Correspondents,’ which he later directed and acted in. Filming began in May of 2015. The remake of the 2009 French comedy ‘Envoyés très spéciaux’ was released in April 2016. It received mostly negative feedback.
In addition to ‘Special Correspondents,’ Gervais wrote, directed, acted in, and produced ‘David Brent: Life on the Road,’ which was released to mixed reviews in August 2016. His next film, ‘Blazing Samurai,’ in which he plays Ika Chu, a malevolent cat, will be out soon.
Ricky Gervais: Marriage and Wife
What is Ricky Gervais’s wife’s name? Since 1984, Ricky Gervais has been married to Jane Fallon, a well-known producer and screenwriter whom he met in 1982 while studying at University College London. The couple lives in both Hampstead and New York City. According to Gervais, an atheist, they did not marry because there is no point in performing a “ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God.” The couple also decided against having children.
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