Gabriel Iglesias

Gabriel Iglesias was born as Gabriel Jesus Iglesias on July 15, 1976 in San Diego, California, USA. Raised by a single mother, he is the youngest of six siblings. At one point in Iglesias’ life, he suffered from Type II Diabetes and obesity that made him weigh 445 pounds. He was warned by his doctor who gave him two years to live. After hearing the warning, Iglesias decided to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle. He incorporated DDP Yoga as well as a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet in his lifestyle and lost over 100 pounds as a result of this. Currently, the comedian is residing in Long Beach, California with his girlfriend Claudia Valdez and her kid, Frankie. He also owns a Chihuahua named Bruno.

Gabriel Iglesias began his comedy career in the year 1997 against the wishes of his mother. He first appeared on television in 2000 on the Nickelodeon comedy series ‘All That’. This was followed by his shows ‘Premium Blend’ and ‘My Wife and Kids’. In 2002, Iglesias did a short film named ‘Entre vivos y plebeyos’. Then from 2003 to 2006, he did a number of projects including ‘El Matador’, ‘Days of Santiago’, ‘The Surfer King’, ‘Comedy Central Presents’, ‘Last Comic Standing’ and ‘The Emperor's New School’.

Then he voiced an entire Mexican family in the episode named ‘Padre de Familia’ of Fox TV’s animated series ‘Family Guy’ in 2007. The same year, he hosted ‘Live at Gotham’ and also gave a stand-up performance in ‘Hot and Fluffy’. After this, Iglesias’ DVD of the show ‘I'm Not Fat... I'm Fluffy’ was released by Comedy Central in 2009. Two years later, the American comedian’s another show ‘Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution’ premiered.

From 2012 to 2014, Iglesias did numerous films and shows, such as ‘The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange’, ‘Magic Mike’, ‘Planes’, ‘The Nut Job’, ‘A Haunted House 2’, ‘The Fluffy Movie’, ‘The Book of Life’ and ‘Aloha Fluffy’. In 2014, he was also cast in the recurring role of Alberto in ABC’s ‘Cristela’. After this, he did the movie Magic Mike’s sequel ‘Magic Mike XXL’ and the show ‘Fluffy Breaks Even‘. Then in 2016, the comedian appeared in the TV shows ‘WWE SmackDown’ and ‘WWE Tribute to the Troops’ and also contributed to films ‘El Americano: The Movie’ and ‘Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Sorry For What I Said While I Was Hungry’. Currently, Iglesias is working on the animated movies ‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ and ‘The Nut Job 2’.