Greg Davies’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African ornithologist
A.K.A. Gregory Davies, Gregory B. P. Davies
Is Zoologist 
Scientist 
From South Africa 
Type Biology 
Science 
Gender male

Gregory Daniel Davies (born 14 May 1968) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang, Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners, Ken Thompson in Cuckoo, as the Taskmaster in Taskmaster, and Man Down playing Dan Davies, as well as for guest appearances on Mock the Week, Would I Lie to You?, and Fast and Loose. He has also performed on the Live at the Apollo series.

Early life

Davies was born on 14 May 1968 in St Asaph, Flintshire. His parents lived in England at the time, but his Welsh father drove his mother across the border to make sure he was born in Wales. He grew up in Wem, Shropshire, which he regards as his home. His father’s origins lie in Porthmadog. Both Davies’ paternal grandmother, Edith, and her sister, Rebecca, were illegitimate; his great-grandfather, William Owen, had a second family in Stanleytown. Like many people in North Wales, Davies also claims descent from Owain Gwynedd.

Davies was educated at Thomas Adams School in Wem, and Brunel University in Uxbridge, where he studied English and Drama. Prior to embarking on a career in comedy, he taught secondary school Drama and English for 13 years at Langleywood School in Slough; Orleans Park School in Twickenham; and Sandhurst School in Sandhurst.

Career

In 2005, Davies played a caricature of cricketer W. G. Grace in a series of adverts for Channel 4’s television coverage of The Ashes.

In 2007, Davies was nominated three times in the Chortle Awards, in the categories “Breakthrough Act” (for his solo stand-up act), “Best Sketch, Variety or Character Act”, and “Best Full-Length Show” (both as part of sketch team We Are Klang).

In 2010, Davies’ first solo stand-up show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog was nominated for the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. The show was subsequently taken on his first ever tour the following autumn. He was also nominated for the Edinburgh Fringe’s Malcolm Hardee “Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid” Award.

From October 2013, Davies starred in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down, as Dan, a man who hates his job as a teacher, with Rik Mayall as his father. Channel 4 commissioned an additional 25-minute Christmas special before the first series aired, and a second series was announced during Davies’s live tour “The Back of My Mum’s Head”, although this was before Rik Mayall’s death in June 2014. Following Mayall’s death, Davies met with Channel 4 to discuss the future of the show. Mayall had been intended to have a more a prominent role in the second series. Channel 4 later announced that Man Down would return for a second series in 2015. The classroom used in the show is the same classroom in which Davies taught at Sandhurst School.

Since July 2015, Davies has been the host of the Dave show Taskmaster. In December 2015, he starred in BBC Two’s comedy drama A Gert Lush Christmas where he played Tony, the uncle of Russell and Kerry Howard’s characters. On Christmas Day he played King Hydroflax in the 2015 Doctor Who Special “The Husbands of River Song”

In November 2017, Davies recorded a Netflix Special at Hammersmith Apollo during his Magnificent Beast UK tour.

Personal life

Davies is 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall. He has a sister. Davies was in a relationship with Labour Party MP Liz Kendall for eight years before they split up in 2015.

Filmography

Year Title Role
2006 Girls? Eugh! uncredited
2007 The Musical Storytellers Ginger & Black Mr Hopkirk
2007 Saxondale Dunc
2008 The Wall various characters
2008–10 The Inbetweeners Mr. Gilbert
2009 We Are Klang Greg
2010-11 Ask Rhod Gilbert himself
2011 Fast and Loose himself
2011 The Inbetweeners Movie Mr. Gilbert
2011 Greg Davies Live – Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog himself
2012–present Cuckoo Ken Thompson
2013 Greg Davies Live – The Back of My Mum’s Head himself
2013–present Man Down Dan
2014 This is Jinsy Jennitta Bishard
2014 The Inbetweeners 2 Mr. Gilbert
2015–present Taskmaster himself
2015 A Gert Lush Christmas Uncle Tony
2015 Doctor Who King Hydroflax
2016 Travel Man himself
2016 Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods  The Centurion (English dub)
2017 Who Do You Think You Are? subject
2017 Comic Relief 2017 himself
2018 You Magnificent Beast himself
2018 Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Balloon Man (voice)
2019 The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited himself
You May Also Like

Ed Harris’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Ed Harris Net Worth and Salary: Ed Harris is an American actor, director and screenwriter who has a net worth of $20 million. Ed Harris is probably best known for his roles in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss and Apollo 13. Born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1950, Ed Harris was a Columbia University athlete who transferred to the University of Oklahoma before graduating from the California Institute of the Arts. His professional acting career began with an appearance in “The Rockford Files” in 1978. His first movie role came in the film “Borderline” before he portrayed astronaut John Glenn two years later in “The Right Stuff”. The four-time Oscar nominee is best known for roles in “Apollo 13”, “The Hours”, “Pollock”, and “The Truman Show”. In addition to his Academy Award nomination, Harris was nominated for a handful of other awards for his portrayal of Gene Kranz in “Apollo 13”, including a BAFTA, Chicago Film Critics Association Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Other TV and film credits include “A History of Violence”, “Gone Baby Gone”, “Enemy at the Gates”, “Riders of the Purple Sage”, “Empire Falls” and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”. Harris is well-known in theater, having acted in and directed several productions, including “Wrecks” in New York City and Los Angeles, and “Once Fallen”, which he appeared in with his wife. He has been married to actress Amy Madigan since 1983. Their daughter, Lily Dolores, was born ten years later. Westworld salary: For his role on the hit HBO drama Westworld, Ed Harris earns a salary of $250,000 per episode.
Read More

Adam Yauch aka MCA’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Adam Yauch aka MCA Net Worth: Adam Yauch aka MCA was an American rapper, musician, film director, and human rights activist who had a net worth of $75 million. He was best known as a founding member of the hip-hop group the Beastie Boys. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA, and sometimes worked under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér. Yauch later founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company based in New York City. Early Life: Adam Nathaniel Yauch aka MCA was born on August 5, 1964, in Brooklyn. His mother was Jewish and a social worker. His father was Catholic and an architect. He had a non-religious upbringing. He was an only child. Yauch attended Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School. He taught himself how to play the bass guitar during high school. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out. Career:  In 1978, he formed the then hardcore punk band Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond. Beastie is an acronym that stands for Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner Excellence. They played their first gig on Yauch’s 17th birthday. Not long after Berry and Schellenbach left the band and Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock joined. This trio showcased their legendary sense of humor on one of their early tracks, 1984’s Cooky Puss, named after a popular Carvel ice cream novelty cake. This rap single featured crack calls to an ice cream shop. Before long, Yauch and his bandmates met Rick Rubin who served as their DJ for a time. Rubin and Russell Simmons, the cofounders of the Def Jam record label, started working with the trio. In 1985, Yauch and his bandmates went on tour with pop star Madonna, a pairing which proved to be a terrible mismatch with Madonna’s young, largely female fans, who booed the loud and rowdy rappers. The group fared much better the following year with the release of their first album Licensed to Ill. Their first album is notable for being the first rap record to top the Billboard 200 chart. The album was a huge commercial success, and spawned six hit singles. Yauch was 22 when Licensed to Ill was released. After the success of Licensed to Ill, the Beastie Boys parted ways with Def Jam and signed with Capitol Records.  The group re-entered the studio in 1988, emerging with a more artistically mature second album, Paul’s Boutique, released on July 25, 1989 and peaking at number 14 on the US Album Charts. Of the album’s two singles, one of them, “Hey Ladies”, reached the Top 40, peaking at number 36 on the US Hot 100. Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys’ music videos from this point forward, often under the pseudonym, Nathanial Hörnblowér, whom he claimed was his uncle from Switzerland. The follow-up album, Check Your Head, was recorded in the band’s own “G-Son” studio in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. Check Your Head was released in 1992 and was certified double Platinum in the US and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200. The album’s first single, “Pass the Mic”, peaked at number 38 on the Hot Dance Music chart, while the second single, “So What’cha Want” reached number 93 on the Billboard 100 and charted on both the Rap and Modern Rock Chart. Ill Communication, released in 1994, saw the Beastie Boys’ return to the top of the charts when the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and peaked at number two on the R&B/hip hop album chart. The single “Sabotage” became a hit on the modern rock charts and the music video, directed by Spike Jonze, received extensive play on MTV.  “Get It Together” reached Top 10 on the Billboard. One of the more unusual samples found on the album was the sound of Tibetan monks, which reflected Yauch’s interest in Buddhism. Yauch was also involved in the Tibetan independence movement and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert. Yauch and Beastie Boys released four more albums before disbanding: Hello Nasty (1998), To the 5 Boroughs (2004), The Mix-Up (2007), and Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011). Health and Death: In July 2009, Yauch announced that doctors had discovered a cancerous tumor on his salivary gland. The Beastie Boys canceled their summer tour so that Yauch could focus on getting better. To treat the condition, Yauch had surgery and radiation treatment. The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012. Yauch was unable to attend the ceremony. A few weeks later, on May 4, 2012, Adam Yauch died in New York City at the age of 47. Personal Life:  Yauch was a practicing Buddhist. He became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement. He created the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization devoted to Tibetan independence and organized several benefit concerts to support the cause, including the Tibetan Freedom Concert. Yauch was a feminist. In the 1994 Beastie Boys single “Sure Shot”, he rapped the verse: “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue / The disrespect to women has to got to be through / To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends / I want to offer my love and respect till the end,” which was an apology of sorts for the lyrics to Beastie Boys hit from the 1980s “Girls.” In 1995, while attending a speech by the Dalai Lama at Harvard University, he met his wife, Tibetan American Dechen Wangdu. They married in 1998 and had a daughter, Tenzin Losel, the same year. In 1998, during the MTV Video Music Awards, when receiving the Video Vanguard Award, Yauch condemned America’s wars in Muslim countries and prejudice against Muslims and Arabs. Artist Cihan Kaan wrote an obituary in Al Jazeera that Yauch was “Muslim Americans’ hero, and America’s personal Jewish Gandhi”, judging his plea to be greater for intercultural healing than the music of later anti-war rappers whose lyrics included anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories. Yauch became a vegan on the recommendation of his doctors while being treated for cancer. In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is “given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage. After his death, the Brooklyn Heights park he played in as a child was renamed Adam Yauch Park.
Read More