- published: 14 Mar 2013
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Lucas Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993) 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. These videos are centered on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional 6-year-old who has a dysfunctional home life and "anger management issues".
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 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. In November 2010, Cruikshank attempted to create another character, Doug Derky, and uploaded his blog to the Fred channel. Due to the strong Fred Figglehorn fan base at that channel, the video was left with mostly negative reviews.