Lucas Alan Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993) is an American comedian,
actor and YouTube personality who created the character Fred
Figglehorn and the associated Fred series for his channel on the
video-sharing website YouTube in late 2005. These videos are centered
on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional six-year-old who has a dysfunctional
home life and "anger management issues".Lucas Alan Cruikshank was born
on August 29, 1993, and raised in Columbus, Nebraska, where he
attended Lakeview High School. He is the son of Molly Jeanne (née
Duffy) and Dave Alan Cruikshank. He has five sisters and two
brothers.Cruikshank, while testing character ideas, created the Fred
character in a Halloween video, and uploaded it to a YouTube channel
that he had started with his two cousins. Upon the success of Fred, he
started a video series, and set up the Fred channel in April 2008. By
April 2009, the channel had over one million subscribers, making it
the first YouTube channel to do so, and the most subscribed channel at
the time. In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which
aired on Nickelodeon in September 2010. Nickelodeon created a
franchise surrounding the character, and began producing the sequel in
March 2011. Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred aired on October 22,
2011, also on Nickelodeon. In 2012, Fred: The Show aired, consisting
of twenty-four 22-minute episodes, and a third movie called Fred 3:
Camp Fred.
actor and YouTube personality who created the character Fred
Figglehorn and the associated Fred series for his channel on the
video-sharing website YouTube in late 2005. These videos are centered
on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional six-year-old who has a dysfunctional
home life and "anger management issues".Lucas Alan Cruikshank was born
on August 29, 1993, and raised in Columbus, Nebraska, where he
attended Lakeview High School. He is the son of Molly Jeanne (née
Duffy) and Dave Alan Cruikshank. He has five sisters and two
brothers.Cruikshank, while testing character ideas, created the Fred
character in a Halloween video, and uploaded it to a YouTube channel
that he had started with his two cousins. Upon the success of Fred, he
started a video series, and set up the Fred channel in April 2008. By
April 2009, the channel had over one million subscribers, making it
the first YouTube channel to do so, and the most subscribed channel at
the time. In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which
aired on Nickelodeon in September 2010. Nickelodeon created a
franchise surrounding the character, and began producing the sequel in
March 2011. Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred aired on October 22,
2011, also on Nickelodeon. In 2012, Fred: The Show aired, consisting
of twenty-four 22-minute episodes, and a third movie called Fred 3:
Camp Fred.
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