Caspar Richard George Lee born 24 April 1994 is a British-South African entrepreneur, actor and YouTuber. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020 for his work within media and advertising.
Career
Lee started his YouTube channel ‘dicasp’ in 2011, and later renamed it to simply ‘Caspar’. Lee was part of the ‘YouTube Boyband’ that raised money in 2014 for Comic Relief. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of “12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch” in December 2013. He was in a 2014 episode of the American television series Web Therapy.
Lee played a character named Garlic in the comedy movie Spud 3: Learning to Fly, alongside fellow YouTuber Troye Sivan. Lee and Joe Sugg appeared in a 2015 travel documentary, Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, and its sequel Joe and Caspar Hit The Road: USA, produced for BBC Worldwide. Also in 2016, Lee starred in Laid in America alongside YouTube comedian KSI (Olajide Olatunji). Lee appeared in the music video for Charli XCX’s 2017 single, “Boys”.
In August 2017, Lee was named “Chief Visionary Officer” of Influencer Ltd, a British influencer marketing agency. Caspar Lee, a biography written by Lee and his mother, Emily, was published in hardcover in May 2016. Lee also co-founded Margravine Management with Joe Sugg.
In May 2020, Lee co-founded Proper Living, a South African student accommodation company.
Personal life
Lee was born in London to Emily Riordan Lee (b. 1956) and Jonathan Lee, but was raised in Knysna and Durban, South Africa where he attended Crawford College, La Lucia. Lee moved from South Africa to live with Alfie Deyes until 2014, before moving to a shared apartment in London with fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg until 2016, when he relocated to a shared apartment with Josh Pieters, also a YouTuber.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Spud 3: Learning To Fly | Garclic | |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Seagull | Voice Role (U.K Version) |
| 2016 | Laid in America | Jack | |
| 2019 | Wonder Park | Cooper | Voice Role (U.K Version) |
Awards
Lee won “Social Media Superstar” at The Global Awards 2018.