Lucas Cruikshank
Cruikshank at YouTube Live in 2008
Born	(1993-08-29) August 29, 1993 (age 18)
Occupation	Actor, student
Years active	2008–present
Notable work(s)	Fred
Home town	Columbus, Nebraska, United States
Internet information
Web alias(es)	Fred, Lucas
Web hosting service(s)	YouTube
Signature phrase	"Hey! It's Fred!"
Website
fredfigglehorn.com

Lucas Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993)^[1] is an American comedic actor. Living in Columbus, Nebraska, he created the character Fred Figglehorn, and the associated Fred series for his channel, on the video-sharing website YouTube.^[2] These videos are centered on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional 6-year-old who has a dysfunctional home life and "anger management issues".^[3]

Life and career[link]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which aired on Nickelodeon, in September 2010. Nickelodeon has created a franchise surrounding the character, a sequel, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred, aired in October 2011, and a TV series, Fred: The Show, is airing, a third movie will air in 2012.^[6] In November 2010, Cruikshank attempted to create another character, Doug Derky, and uploaded his blog to the Fred channel.^[7] Due to the strong Fred Figglehorn fan base at that channel, the video was left with mostly negative reviews.^[8]

Cruikshank grew up in Columbus, Nebraska, and has five sisters and two brothers.^[4] He has also appeared in a number of other television shows.

Sponsorship and appearances[link]

In the Fred series, Cruikshank promotes various products and movies. He is seen using a Zipit,^[9] as well as his own products^[10] and T-shirts.^[11] In addition to promoting his own movies and albums, Cruikshank has also promoted the movies City of Ember,^[12] Year One,^[13] and Adventures of Power,^[14] and the artist Kev Blaze.^[15]

He has made a cameo appearance as both "Fred" and himself on Nickelodeon's iCarly in "iMeet Fred", which originally aired on February 16, 2009.^[16]

Cruikshank has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, as well as the Hannah Montana episode "Come Fail Away", which aired December 6, 2009.^[17] He appeared at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards as well as the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards presenting awards to winners off-stage. In 2011, he appeared on the Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards,^[18] and in an episode of Supah Ninjas.

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Other channels[link]

Cruikshank was originally a part of JKL Productions, a group comprising twins Jon and Katie Smet and Lucas Cruikshank, their cousin.^[4] Although Cruikshank formally left the group, JKL prefers to keep Lucas' "L" in its name. Cruikshank deleted all of his individual videos when he left JKL Productions, but he can still be seen in a few of their videos. In January 2009 he set up his own channel, called "lucas", in which he appears as himself.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lucas Cruikshank at the Internet Movie Database
• Lucas Cruikshank's channel on YouTube
• Fred's channel on YouTube
• Fred Figglehorn official website