What is Matt Lucas?
{{Infobox comedian | name = Matt Lucas | image = Matt Lucas by Gage Skidmore.jpg | imagesize = 220px | caption = Lucas at the 2017 [[San Diego Comic-Con]] | height = {{convert|5|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | genre = [[Black comedy]], [[sketch comedy]] | influences = [[Barry Humphries]]<br>[[Vic Reeves]]<br>[[Bob Mortimer]]<br>[[David Walliams]] | medium = [[Actor]], [[comedian]], [[writer]] | active = 1994–present | birth_name = Matthew Richard Lucas | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Paddington]], [[London]], England}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|03|05|df=yes}} | spouse = {{marriage|Kevin McGee|16 December 2006|22 October 2008}} (divorced) | notable_work = ''[[Little Britain]]''<br>''[[Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)|Come Fly with Me]]''<br>''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''<br>''[[Paddington (movie)|Paddington]]''<br>''[[Wonka (movie)|Wonka]]'' }} '''Matthew Richard Lucas''' (born 5 March 1974) is a [[British people|British]] [[actor]], [[comedian]] and [[writer]]. He is best known for ''[[Little Britain]]'', a comedy [[sketch]] [[television programme|programme]] he and [[David Walliams]] wrote and [[performance|performed]]. ==Life== Lucas was born and raised in [[London]]. He is from a [[Jew]]ish family and is [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matt-lucas-pride-and-prejudice-428674.html Pride and prejudice]</ref> He has [[alopecia]]. On 16 June 2022, he appeared on the [[BBC]] television programme ''[[Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' and discovered that many of his grandmother's cousins had been killed in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. In Amsterdam in 1942, his grandmother's cousin Werner Goldschmidt [[Renting|rented]] a room from [[Anne Frank|Anne Frank's]] father, [[Otto Frank]]. He was living with them just before the [[The Diary of a Young Girl|family went into hiding]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC One - Who Do You Think You Are?, Series 19, Matt Lucas|url=https://www.bbc.