Lance Barber is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on June 29, 1973 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Breaking through as an actor in the HBO series The Comeback, Barber would later become well known for portraying George Cooper Sr. in the prequel to The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon. He also had a notable recurring role in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
He would star alongside Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback.
Barber was born and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan and began wanting to be an actor at the age of 7, after seeing a performance of Grease at the Barn Theatre. He acted at Pennfield High School, from which he graduated in 1991, and performed in school productions from Kellogg Community College while earning his associate degree.
After a year at the Barn Theatre, alongside Jennifer Garner, he moved to Chicago and spent five years working his way up in The Second City improvisational comedy troupe. He then moved to Los Angeles and had his first television role in On the Spot, an improv sketch show which ran for five episodes on The WB in 2003. He credits his breakthrough to the 2005 HBO series The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow, in which he played Paulie G., a television writer who he describes as an “asshole”. In 2010, he landed the recurring role of Bill Ponderosa on FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He reprised his role as Paulie G. when HBO brought back The Comeback in 2014. He also starred in episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Gilmore Girls, Californication, Monk, The Mentalist, and Grey’s Anatomy.
He and his wife Aliza have two children.
