Gavin Free Bio | Wiki
Gavin Free (Full Name: Gavin David Free) is a popular English actor, director, cinematographer, and internet personality. As of now, Gavin works as the creator and co-host of the YouTube-based web series The Slow Mo Guys, with his friend Daniel Gruchy. The Slow Mo Guys feature slow-motion footage of many stunts and experiments, receiving as of February 2022 more than 2.2 billion views since its launch in 2010.
The channel was voted the winner of YouTube’s On The Rise program in April 2011. Their episode involving crushing watermelons became featured in September 2012, on The Tonight Show. Gavin is also known for his work at Rooster Teeth—where he initially worked as creative director—featuring in many of their projects, such as the Achievement Hunter gaming division. Gavin also directed season 7 of Red vs. Blue, and its miniseries Relocated. He has appeared beside Gruchy in the annual YouTube Rewind series from 2013 through 2017. Gavin became nominated for a Webby Award in the Best Web Personality/Host (Online Film & Video) category due to his work on The Slow Mo Guys on 5 April 2016.
Gavin’s acting roles include Woody in Lazer Team and its sequel, Vav in the animated comedy series X-Ray and Vav, and Scarlet David in RWBY. In addition, Gavin is also known for his slow-motion cinematography work for films, such as Hot Fuzz (2007), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Snow White, and the Huntsman (2012), and Dredd (2012). He has also served on slow-motion footage for the BBC show Top Gear. During the 2016 Streamy Awards, Gavin won for Cinematography.
Gavin Free Age | Birthday
Gavin was born on May 23, 1988, in Thame, England. He is 34 years old. Gavin celebrates his birthday on May 23, every year.
Gavin Free Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Gavin stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in (Approx. 1.75 m).
Gavin Free Family
He was born in Hillingdon and was brought up in the town of Thame in Oxfordshire, England. Gavin is the son of David W. Free and Anna F. Imperato of Italian descent. When Gavin was 1 year old, his grandfather lent him his old Hi8 video camera and he began making silly home videos.
Gavin’s ethnicity is British (Welsh) from his father’s side and Italian from his mother’s side. His paternal Welsh grandparents are Alfred W. Free and Elizabeth E. Owen while his maternal Italian grandparents are Giulio R. A. Imperato and Angelina Di Palma (the daughter of Michele Di Palma and Maddalena Salerno or Amalfitana).
Gavin Free Girlfriend
Gavin has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Meg Turney a streamer, internet personality, cosplayer, glamour model, and vlogger. The pair began dating in 2013. An armed man broke into the couple’s Austin home on 26 January 2018, armed with a handgun, firing one shot while the two hid in a closet and contacted authorities. Gavin and Turney were unharmed in the incident. From 2009 through 2012, Meg was married to Kevin Pereira a game show host and TV personality.
Gavin Free Education
He studied at Lord Williams’s School in 1999, where Gavin initially met Daniel Gruchy.
Gavin Free The Slow Mo Guys
He founded The Slow Mo Guys a science and technology entertainment web series from Thame, England, in the United Kingdom in 2010, together with friend Daniel Gruchy in order to get a work visa. This series consists largely of various objects being filmed using Free’s Phantom high-speed cameras. In February 2022, the pair’s YouTube channel has received more than 2.2 billion views and 14.2 million subscribers.
The channel became voted the winner of YouTube’s On The Rise program in April 2011, which highlights up-and-coming YouTube partners on the homepage. The two were featured on The Tonight Show in September 2012. In February 2013, Gavin reported that The Slow Mo Guys had been picked up by Rooster Teeth and that further episodes of the series would be released on Rooster Teeth’s website, and the series’ existing YouTube channel.
Gavin and Gruchy founded on 23 February 2015, a partner channel to The Slo Mo Guys, The Slo Mo Guys 2, as a channel for “laid back ‘out of labcoats’ content that doesn’t fit on the main channel”By February 2021, the channel received 41.8 million views and 831k subscribers.
Gavin Free Meg Turney
He has been in a relationship with Meg Turney a streamer, internet personality, cosplayer, glamour model, and vlogger. The pair began dating in 2013. Meg became an internet personality via her hosting work, initially with SourceFed and Rooster Teeth’s The Know. Meg also maintains a personal YouTube channel where she posts vlogs and Let’s Play videos and live streams. Besides her work with online media, Meg also cosplays at various conventions, such as Comic-Con.
An armed man broke into the couple’s Austin home on 26 January 2018, armed with a handgun, firing one shot while the two hid in a closet and contacted authorities. Gavin and Turney were unharmed in the incident. From 2009 through 2012, Meg married Kevin Pereira a game show host and TV personality.
Gavin Free Leaves Rooster Teeth
He became hired by Austin,-Texas-based Rooster Teeth Productions in 2009, to direct the seventh season of their machinima series Red vs. Blue. Free also directed its mini-series Relocated. Gavin acted in Rooster Teeth’s comedy mini-series Captain Dynamic and started appearing in Rooster Teeth Shorts the same year.
He joined Achievement Hunter (a video gaming division of Rooster Teeth created by Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo) in 2008 as a contract host prior to becoming one of the main six hosts in 2012. Gavin also started starring as a “lab rat” in May 2013, in the Rooster Teeth series Immersion, replacing Geoff Ramsey and Gus Sorola. In Immersion, Gavin must test video concepts in real life with friend and co-worker Michael Jones. Gavin was a contestant in the second season of Rooster Teeth’s gaming show The Gauntlet in 2013. He started starring in the Rooster Teeth animated superhero comedy web series X-Ray and Vav in November 2014.
In 2015, Gavin and Rooster Teeth co-founder Burnie Burns hosted many episodes of the hypothetical scenario series Million Dollars, But…, in which every person comes up with a typically difficult scenario; for example, having to date Adolf Hitler for a year — which the cast comically re-enact — for which they will be offered a million dollars.
Gavin became the creative director of Rooster Teeth in October 2015, replacing Burnie Burns who became then promoted to chief creative officer. Later, Gavin stepped down in early 2016, wanting to “dedicate his time in 2016 to The Slow Mo Guys.” Gavin also starred in 2016, as Woody in Rooster Teeth’s science fiction action comedy film Lazer Team.
Gavin Free Net Worth
He works as the creator and co-host of the YouTube-based web series The Slow Mo Guys, with his friend Daniel Gruchy. Therefore, Gavin has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Gavin’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
How Old Is Gavin Free
Gavin is a 34-year-old who was born on May 23, 1988, in Thame, England.
Who Is Gavin Free
Gavin works as the creator and co-host of the YouTube-based web series The Slow Mo Guys, with his friend Daniel Gruchy. The Slow Mo Guys feature slow-motion footage of many stunts and experiments, receiving as of February 2022 more than 2.2 billion views since its launch in 2010. The channel became voted the winner of YouTube’s On The Rise program in April 2011. Their episode involving crushing watermelons became featured in September 2012, on The Tonight Show.