Jack Whitehall Biography
Jack Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter, actor and writer. He is best known for his stand up comedy, for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat (2011–2016).
Later for playing Alfie Wickers in the TV series Bad Education from 2012–2014 and the spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015), both of which he also co-wrote.
Whitehall was a regular panellist from 2012 to 2018, on the game show A League of Their Own. Whitehall in 2017, appeared with his father, Michael, in the Netflix comedy documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father and starred in the television series Decline and Fall. Whitehall has been the host of the BRIT Awards since 2018.
Jack Whitehall Age
Whitehall was born on 7 July 1988. He is aged 30 years as of 2018.
Jack Whitehall Net Worth
The English comedian, television personality and actor has a net worth of $4 million dollars.
Jack Whitehall Dad/Early Life
Whitehall is the first child of actress Hilary Amanda Jane Whitehall (née Isbister, stage name Hilary Gish) and the television producer Michael John Whitehall. Jacks father was an agent for Judi Dench, Colin Firth, and Richard Griffiths and wrote the memoir Shark-Infested Waters. Molly Louisa is Whitehalls sister born on 23 October 1989 and a brother, Barnaby William born 10 March 1992. Jack has had two godfathers — Nigel Havers and the late Richard Griffiths, both actors.
Jack Whitehall Education
Whitehall attended Tower House School in East Sheen, west London, where he was a fellow pupil with actor Robert Pattinson. He has made jokes about this, often mentioning that he resented Pattinson’s taking all the best acting roles in the school plays. He auditioned for the role of Harry Potter, but the casting director was unimpressed with Whitehall, who had not read the book.
Whitehall was struggling with his academics when his parents sent him to boarding school at age 11. He attended the Dragon School in Oxford and then Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire. Whitehall took a gap year where he decided to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. He attended the University of Manchester for two terms only, to study History of Art.
Jack Whitehall Career
Television and radio career
Whitehall in 1997 (then aged nine) appeared in the series Noah’s Ark. In June 2008, Whitehall presented the first week of Big Brother’s Big Mouth on E4, returning in August to present the twelfth week. Whitehall in September and November, made his first and second of many appearances on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats.
He presented Celebrity Big Brother’s Big Mouth and appeared on The Sunday Night Project in January 2009. On 5 June his third appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats was broadcast. Whitehall in June 2009 co-presented topical-satire series The TNT Show with Holly Walsh on Channel 4. In August, he appeared on Charlie Brooker’s Channel 4 panel show You Have Been Watching, followed in September by his first appearance on Would I Lie to You? He made his first of many appearances on BBC Two satirical panel show Mock the Week and in October, he guest-presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Whitehall in January 2010, made his fourth appearance in 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in February by his second appearance on Mock the Week and a first appearance in Argumental on Dave. He featured on Channel 4’s Comedy Gala in April, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, which had been filmed live at The O2 Arena in London in March.
In April, he appeared on James Corden’s sport show A League of Their Own and on 11 June made his fifth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in June by his third appearance on Mock the Week. Whitehall in June and July 2010, was a regular performer on the first series of Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week alongside Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges, Rich Hall and presenter Patrick Kielty.
In September he made his sixth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats and in September and October, his fourth and fifth appearances on Mock the Week. In October, he appeared on a second episode of Argumental and he honoured Big Brother presenter Davina McCall on the Channel 4 show A Comedy Roast. In October, he headlined the second episode of Dave’s One Night Stand, followed by his second appearance on A League of Their Own and on 1 November he appeared on Ask Rhod Gilbert.
He appeared on the Royal Variety Performance in December, 2010 and in December he appeared on the sixth series of Live at the Apollo, which had been filmed on 27 September.
Whitehall in February 2011, was featured on Comedy Central Presents Jack Whitehall in the United States. He appeared on the BBC football programme Final Score in March, reporting on Arsenal’s 0–0 draw with Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium. Whitehall from March until May, returned as a regular performer for the second series of Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week together with Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges and Rich Hall, joined for the new series by Jon Richardson.
Whitehall and Bridges in March, presented Jack and Kevin’s Comic Relief Lock-In, which took the Comic Relief show through to the early hours of the morning with a selection of the best comedy clips of the last couple of years. He made his début appearance on a U.S. chatshow in May 2011, interviewed by Ellen DeGeneres, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Whitehall in June featured on the second annual Channel 4’s Comedy Gala, which had been filmed in May. He made a seventh appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats in June. Whitehall in July 2011 appeared alongside Lorraine Kelly on the Channel 4 show King Of…, presented by Claudia Winkleman. He made a sixth appearance in July 2011 on Mock the Week and he appeared on the British version of The Marriage Ref with Jack Dee and Katherine Kelly.
He was a guest on the Channel 4 show Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night, presented by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and in September made his second appearance on Would I Lie to You? Whitehall made his acting début in the Channel 4 comedy drama Fresh Meat, from the creators of Peep Show. Whitehall in the series, plays the role of J.P., a public school boy who failed to get into a “proper” university.
The first series, in which he co-stars alongside Joe Thomas, ran until November 2011 and received critical acclaim. A second, third and fourth series aired on Channel 4 in the UK. He and his father Michael in September, appeared on The Million Pound Drop Live, presented by Davina McCall. It was announced on 30 November that he would write and star in new BBC Three comedy Bad Education.
Whitehall in February 2014, guest starred on Top Gear, having only driven a car once before, and drove on the Top Gear Test Track. He made a guest appearance in December 2014 in the second series of the Peter Gabriel spoof The Life of Rock with Brian Pern, broadcast on BBC Two. In 2015, he starred as posh backpacker Hugo in “La Couchette”, the first episode of the second series of anthology series Inside No. 9.
Whitehall on 24 October 2014, was the presenter of the Feeling Nuts Movement’s inaugural event called The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night on Channel 4, raising awareness of testicular cancer.
Whitehall in 2017, presented Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father, a travel documentary/road trip series in which he and his father Michael Whitehall spent five weeks in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The show was released on Netflix. Whitehall on 8 December 2017, was announced as the next host of the BRIT Awards, taking over from 2017’s hosts Dermot O’Leary and Emma Willis.
Jack Whitehall TV Shows
In 1993, The Good Guys as Guy McFadyean Jr.. In 1997, in Noah’s Ark as Ben Wiston. In 2002, Bertie and Elizabeth as Little boy. In 2005, in Have I Been Here Before? as James Porter. In 2008, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul as Office worker. In 2011, in Little as Crackers Robin. In 2011–16, in Fresh Meat as J.P. In 2012–14, in Bad Education as Alfie Wickers. In 2012–17, in A League of Their Own as Himself.
In 2013–14, in Psychobitches as Maria Von Trapp. In 2013–15, in Backchat as Himself. In 2014, in Top Gear as Himself. In 2014, in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern as Young Tony Pebble. In 2015, in Inside No. 9 as Hugo. In 2015–present, in Thunderbirds Are Go as Francois Lemaire. In 2016, in Drunk History as Sir Walter Raleigh. In 2017, in Decline and Fall as Paul Pennyfeather as Himself. In 2017–present, in Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father. In 2018 in Brit Awards as Himself In 2019, in Brit Awards as Himself. In 2019, in Good Omens as Newton Pulsifer.
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