Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais
Gervais in 2010
Born	June 25, 1961
Birth Hometown	Reading, England
Character Played	Argonaut (voice)

Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director and writer. He is best known for co-creating, co-writing and acting in the British television mockumentary sitcom The Office.

He voiced Argonaut in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.

Early life

Ricky Gervais was born on 25 June 1961 at Battle Hospital in Reading, Berkshire. He was brought up in the Whitley suburb of Reading, along with sister, Marsha, and brothers, Larry and Robert. His father, Lawrence Raymond "Jerry" Gervais (1919–2002) a Franco-Ontarian from Pain Court, Ontario, emigrated to the UK whilst on foreign duty during the Second World War and worked as a labourer and hod carrier. He met Gervais' English mother, Eva Sophia (née House; 1925–2000), during a blackout and they settled in Whitley. She died aged 74 of lung cancer.

Gervais attended Whitley Park Infants and Junior Schools and received his secondary education at Ashmead Comprehensive School; after a gap year which he spent working as a gardener at the University of Reading, he moved on to University College London (UCL) in 1980. He intended to study biology but changed to philosophy after two weeks, and was awarded an upper second-class honours degree ("2:1") in the subject from University of London in 1983. During his time at UCL, he met Jane Fallon, with whom he has been in a relationship since 1982.

External links

• Ricky Gervais at the Internet Movie Database
• Ricky Gervais on Twitter