Neil Fingleton was born on 18th December 1980, in Durham, England, and was an actor and former basketball player. With a height of 2.32 m he was the tallest human in the Europe, and played basketball professionally from 2004 to 2007. He passed away in 2017
How rich was Neil Fingleton? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth was as much as $2 million converted to the present day. Basketball and films were the major source of Fingleton’s net worth.
Neil Fingleton Net Worth $2 million
To begin with, the boy was raised in Durham, but matriculated from high school in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2000, after moving to the US to pursue a career as a basketball player. He won a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later to the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester. He graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree in History.
Concerning his professional career, it eventually lasted only from 2003 to 2007, when an injury forced him to retire. He played for the teams Boston Freazy from the semi-professional ABA league, and CB Illescas from Spain in the position of the centre. Afterwards, he moved back to his native city, and pursued an acting career. So, he was the first to appear in some television documentaries regarding the problems that he encountered because of his size. His first acting role he assumed in the film “X-Men: First Class” (2011) as a Russian bodyguard. Other film appearances followed, in “47 Ronin” (2013) and “Jupiter Ascending” (2015). In 2014, he played the role of Giant Mag the Mighty in the noted television series “Game of Thrones”, then in 2015, he took a role in the film “Avengers: Age of Ultron”. Overall, all the above mentioned engagements have increased the net worth of Neil Fingleton.
Finally, in his personal life, Neil remained officially single. Fingleton died on 25th February 2017 in London, England at the age of only 36 years – the cause of death was heart failure.
Played basketball at the University of North Carolina and at Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).
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Believes his his height is a result of genetics. His brother is 6ft 8in.
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Neil Fingleton (born 18 December 1980) is the United Kingdom's tallest British-born man at 7 feet 7.5 inches (232.5 cm) in height. Neil Fingleton won a basketball scholarship to the United States first playing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Ciudad Real club in Spain but has now returned to his home city of Durham while he pursues a career in showbusiness. On the Guinness World Records website, Neil Fingleton says in 2006: "I am one of three siblings - my sister who is 6 feet 3 inches is the eldest at 30, my brother is 6 feet 8 inches who is 29 and I am 7 feet 7 inches at 26. My mother is 6 feet tall and my father was also. My great grandfather was 6 feet 8 inches. I have always been taller than everyone since I can remember. My height really took off when I reached 11 and was touching 7 feet. By the time I was 16 I was 7 feet 5 inches and stopped growing at 18 when I was 7 feet 7.56 inhces. Two 2007 British TV documentaries, Britain's Tallest Men on BBC Four and Superhuman: Giants on ITV, featured Neil Fingleton and covered the difficulties and constant attention, quite often considerable rudeness, that he faces day to day.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Doctor Who
2015
TV Series
Fisher King
Jupiter Ascending
2015
Sargorn Fight Sequence
Game of Thrones
2014
TV Series
Mag the Mighty
47 Ronin
2013
Lovecraftian Samurai
X: First Class
2011
Russian General's Bodyguard 1
Stunts
Title
Year
Status
Character
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
stunt performer
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
motion capture actor: Ultron
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pointless Celebrities
2013
TV Series
Himself
Hole in the Wall
2008
TV Series
Himself
Superhuman: Giants
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hole in the Wall
2008
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
X: First Class (2011) as Russian General's Bodyguard 1
47 Ronin (2013) as Lovecraftian Samurai
Jupiter Ascending (2015) as Sargorn Fight Sequence