Quick facts
Birth date 11 Nov, 1968
Age 51 yrs
Occupations Actor
Television actor
Film actor
Screenwriter
Citizenship United States of America
Birth place St. Louis
Gender Male
Description American actor and comedian


 A famous comedian and actor famed for playing Huell Babineaux, and is recognized by his act of hired gun of Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. Lavell was born on November 11th 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri and belongs to African-American ethnicity. He is 5ft 8in (1.73m), with brown dark eyes and black hair and is loved by thousands of people for his work.

Early life:

Lavell’s nationality is American. He has been suffering from obesity and almost drowned, at the age of 10. Being troubled by his physique was not less to make his life harder that his father abandoned him. He graduated in 1986, from Pattonville High School in Maryland Height, Missouri.

Professional career:

Though Lavell's life was quite hard since childhood, he never gave up and kept on smiling and made people smile. He used to rock the stage very often of BET's ComicView in the 90s. 1st movie where Lavell stepped into acting profession was "Beverly Hood”. Lavell has also been a contestant of Last Comic Standing at NBC in 2007. In 2011, he came up with "CAN A BROTHER GET SOME LOVE" at Roberts Orpheum Theatre in St. Louis.

Well after so many milestones, Lavell gave a hit in the web series Breaking Bad as a hired gun of Saul Goodman for which he is recognized by the whole country as Huell Babineaux, the bodyguard. Crawford started his career and worked in several plays and movies like: " It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "Sperm Boat", "For Love or Money". He also worked in episode of Tosh.0. “Infant’s Momma Drama”, “My Parents, My Sisters and Me”, “Cherish Chronicles: Secrets Revealed”, “What Goes around Comes Around”, “Je’Caryous Johnson’s Marriage Material”. These are some of the movies where Lavell has performed really well.

In 2015, Lavell was spotted many times in the "Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" as a correspondent and panel member. The actor has also become a star with huge fan followers. Lavell was also honored as the guest or chief guest in many shows. He was seen on Aqua TV Show as Unbelievable Ron also in Suidbilllird, Your Pretty Faces in Going to Hell and many more. How can we forget Huell Babineaux for BREAKING BAD, in the year 2017?

Though Lavell has always been a loyal person be being personally or professionally his affairs had always been in air. Rumors says he had affair with many girls, in his early day. As of now, he is and spends a lot of happy moments with his family. He owns net assets of $500 thousand.

Last Modified: Jun 23, 2020




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