Lucas Cruikshank is a YouTube star turned Nickelodeon actor, who is widely known for creating the character Fred Figglehorn. An exclusive channel created according to the idea of Fred, which has more than a million subscribers in a year. To this day, Fred’s series still enjoys views on YouTube, which is what she has achieved in acceptability.
Lucas Cruikshank Biography, Age
He is really very little known about hisbiography. Lucas Alan Cruikshank was born on August 29, 1993 in Columbus, Nebraska. Her parents are Dave Alan Cruikshank and Molly Jeanne-Duffy. Lucas has seven siblings, including hairstylist Stephanie Lierman, YouTube personality Jacob Cruikshank, and Ethan Cruikshank. He is of Irish, Scottish and German descent. He attended Lakeview High School in Nebraska for his high school education. There is no information on if and where he attended college or what he studied. Lucas has American citizenship and is of white ethnicity.
Fortune of Lucas Cruikshank
Lucas Cruikshank is a YouTube personality and vlogger who started his career on YouTube in 2005. He founded the JKL Productions company and also created a Youtube channel with his twin cousins, Jon and Katie Smet. The three youngsters started creating character ideas and posting the videos on their channel. Their breakthrough came later in 2005 with the character creation of Fred Figglehorn in a Halloween video performed by Lucas himself, which depicted him as a six-year-old living in a family in crisis. The video made Lucas Cruikshank an instant YouTube star.
Fred’s character grew so fast that he had his own channel in April 2008, where he started a series of videos. In one year, April 2009, the Fred YouTube channel broke records by becoming the first YouTube channel to gain more than one million subscribers, a figure that today reaches more than 2.7 million subscribers. JKL Productions also earned a total of $14,000 that year from Fred’s videos before Lucas announced his departure from the company.
Lucas Cruikshank made the character of Fred a film titled Fred: The Movie which attracted Nickelodeon, a satellite television network owned by Viacom. Instead of the Fred channel on YouTube, the film aired on Nickelodeon in September 2010. After the success of the film, the cartoon company decided to turn the character of Fred into a franchise and produced further sequels to the Fred’s first film, including: Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred in October 2011, Fred: The Show and Fred 3: Camp Fred in 2012 respectively. Both aired on the Nickelodeon Network. The latest sequel ended the Fred series but not Lucas’ collaboration with Nickelodeon. He got another role in the series Marvin Marvin, which debuted when the series Fred expired, but was not as successful as Fred and was therefore canceled after the first season.
In addition to the Fred channel, Lucas Cruikshanka has his own YouTube channel which goes by the name “Lucas” where he posts videos every Sunday and Wednesday. He created the channel in January 2009 and has over 2.7 million subscribers. He appeared in an episode of the American television series “High School Comedy” Hannah Montana which aired from 2006 to 2011. Lucas is currently worth $5 million. His net worth comes from his activities on YouTube and his acting spell with Nickelodeon.
Is Lucas Cruikshank gay? Boyfriend
Yes! Lucas Cruikshank is an openly gay man. He appeared in one of his YouTube videos in 2013, on August 20 to be precise. In the video, he said it was so weird to have to make the video, but he felt the world should know about his sexual orientation, as his family had known since 2010 (three years before the date he aired the video). Lucas is currently in a relationship with Matthew Fawcus, whom he met at a gay club in 2014. He officially revealed his boyfriend on his YouTube channel with the hashtag #Boyfriend. He met Fawcus through YouTuber friend Kingsley.
Quick Facts – Height, Zodiac Sign
first name : Lucas Alan Cruikshank
Nickname : Lucas Cruikshank
Profession : Actor, YouTube personality
Date of birth : August 29, 1993
Zodiac sign : Virgo
Birthplace : Columbus, Nebraska
Nationality : American
Ethnicity : White
Father : Dave Alan Cruikshank
Mother : Molly Jeanne
Boyfriend : Matthew Fawcus
Sexuality : Gay
height : 1.73m
Weight : 65kg
Eye color : Black
Hair color : Brown
Annual salary : $90,000
Net worth : $5 million