Ricky Dene Gervais Bio

Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, and writer. The Office, a British television mockumentary comedy that he founder, co-wrote, and starred in, is his most well-known work.

Early Life, Age, Parents

Ricky Dene Gervais was born in Reading, England on June 25, 1961. Lawrence Raymond Gervais, a Franco-Ontarian, was a foreign serviceman who served in England during World War II.

His mother was Eva Sophia, née House, an English homemaker. Ricky was the youngest of four children born to his parents, who also had an elder sister named Marsha, two brothers named Larry and Robert, and Ricky.

He began his education at Whitney Infant School before advancing 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 earned his diploma from that institution.

Ricky Dene Gervais Height, Weight

Ricky Gervais stands 5 feet 9 inches tall. He weighs around 60 kg (121 lbs). He has brown hair and very warm brown eyes. His shoe size, biceps, chest, waist, hips, and other physical traits are unknown.

Ricky Dene Gervais’ wife?

Ricky Gervais has lived with Jane Fallon, a renowned producer and screenwriter whom he met in 1982 while studying at University College London, since 1984.

The couple lives in both New York City and Hampstead. They did not marry, according to atheist Gervais, because there is no use in having a “ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God.” Furthermore, the couple opted not to have children.

Salary and Net worth

Ricky Gervais has a net worth of $14 million as an actor, comedian, writer, and director of British heritage. He made the great majority of his fortune by producing the television show The Office.

Ricky Dene Gervais’s Professional Career

• While still a student at UCL, Gervais and his buddy Bill Macrae formed the musical group Seona Dancing in June 1982.
• Gervais and Macrae, who played the piano, performed many of the songs they co-wrote.
• After producing a 16-song demo tape, they eventually signed with London Records.
• In the year 2000, he contributed amusing sketches to the BBC Two comic sketch show “Bruiser.”
• Later that year, he began appearing regularly on Channel 4’s hugely successful “The 11 O’Clock Show.”
• Following his success on “The 11 O’Clock Program,” Gervais launched his own chat show, “Meet Ricky Gervais,” on Channel 4.
• Two well-known guests appeared on each of the Friday night shows.
• The program, however, only lasted from September 22 to October 27, 2000.
• He portrayed Mr. James Bing, a sarcastic computer, in the 2013 animated science fiction comedy film “Escape from Planet Earth.”
• He played Dr. McPhee in “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” in 2014, and the villain Dominic Badguy/The Lemur in “Muppets Most Wanted.”
• Gervais began writing the script for “Special Correspondents,” which he subsequently directed and starred in, in 2014.
• The filming began in May of 2015. The film was released in April 2016 as a remake of the 2009 French comedy “Envoyés très spéciaux.”
• It received generally unfavorable feedback.
• Gervais wrote, directed, acted in, and produced David Brent: Life on the Road, which was released in August 2016 to mixed reviews. He also wrote, directed, acted in, and produced “Special Correspondents.”
• His next film, “Blazing Samurai,” in which he plays the villainous cat Ika Chu, is set to be released soon.

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