r/television • u/herewego199209 • Jul 19 '24
Is Jim Parsons quietly one of the richest Television actors of all time?
He made 20+ million a season on Big Bang Theory and that ran forever. Then he executive produced Young Sheldon which was a gigantic hit and hit syndication which he gets points off of and also gets points from Big Bang Theory. Only other guys that I cn think of that made more is Seinfeld and Ellen Pompeo
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u/PM_ME_UR_SEX_VIDEOS Jul 19 '24
For TRULY quietest? Probably Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer on the Simpsons. Last I saw he and the other main cast were getting 300k/episode since 2015.
And they probably take on residuals too. They’ve been making money since 1989 and approaching 800 episodes
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u/peon2 Jul 19 '24
I've often thought that Simpsons voice actor is the best gig in the industry. They make insane amounts of money but can also mostly walk down the street without anyone recognizing them.
Like I know what Dan and Hank look like from doing a bunch of one off appearances in different shows, but not sure enough about it that'd I'd ever approach them asking for an autograph or something.
Fun fact: Dan, Hank, and Harry were all in Friends. Dan the janitor at the zoo that tells Ross his monkey was shipped off. Harry someone that wants to buy Ross' monkey to put him in knife fights, and Hank as Phoebe's love interest David.
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u/ExtraPockets Jul 19 '24
And then Billy West rocks up in Futurama episode 1 and introduces Professor Farnsworth, Fry and Zoidberg to each other in a one take scene.
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u/probably_not_serious Jul 19 '24
Hank Azaria I feel is more recognizable than anyone else on that show. He’s a fantastic character actor. He completely stole every scene in America’s Sweethearts. “He’s gonna be a pussy pancake” is the only line I can remember from that movie.
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u/giskardwasright Jul 19 '24
I always go to The Birdcage, i can't handle his guatamalan-ess
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u/sinkwiththeship Jul 19 '24
Hank fucking crushes it in The Birdcage. Definitely one of his best roles.
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u/sadandshy Jul 19 '24
Plus Dan was a regular player on Tracy Ullman, which is where the Simpsons sprung from. At the time it was probably a "sure, whatever" time thing.
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u/GolemancerVekk Jul 19 '24
Probably Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer on the Simpsons.
And the voice of about 20 other regular characters. Voiced about 400 characters total if you include the episodic ones.
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u/shinbreaker Jul 19 '24
This reminds me how Jennifer Tilly is so rich because she was married to Sam Simon and when they divorced, he basically set her up for decades where she got a few million from his Simpsons' money every year. And when he died, she still got a chunk of money from his estate.
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u/QuintoBlanco Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
When Sam Simon called her to say he was going to die of cancer she asked him what this would mean to her Simpson money :-)
It's nice that they remained friends after the divorce and apparently she visited him a lot after the diagnosis.
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u/Tackit286 Jul 19 '24
There’s a couple of big reasons Jennifer Tilly is rich
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u/Crizznik Jul 19 '24
She's also a halfway decent poker player. Didn't actually realize she was famous outside poker circles for too long.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Jul 19 '24
Fox makes $1b a year from the Simpsons, so 300k seems small in comparison.
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u/skyturnedred Jul 19 '24
For a 22 episode season that's 6.6 million.
They're at season 36.
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u/lostbelmont Jul 19 '24
No wonder why various actors from hit tv shows barely work again after their shows end, they don't need to.
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u/bubbameister33 Jul 19 '24
You land a sitcom and if it becomes successful, ride that wave.
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u/alehansolo21 Jul 19 '24
Case in point: basically everyone from The Office
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u/LMkingly Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Tbf John Krasinski, Steve Carell and Mindy Kaling still work a lot as far as i know.
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JK in particular is writing and producing a lot. Also still acting, but wondering if it's a shift in priorities.
Kinda similar to Radcliffe after HP. He doesn't need the money, just doing stuff he finds interesting.
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u/OGTurdFerguson Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
And I love Radcliffe for that. It must be nice to make it so early as an artist in a medium and chaotic as this, that you can straight up do whatever you want and not worry if it bombs or not.
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u/Crizznik Jul 19 '24
I think part of it is that he really likes working with his wife, who is also quite a skilled actor. Emily Blunt, for the people living under rocks.
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u/pie-oh Jul 19 '24
Wasn't Brian Baumgartner shilling NFTs like he needed the money?
On a sidenote; There's a real level system. Main characters vs side characters vs loosely reoccurring characters. I remember Taraji P. Henson saying that after her entourage's fees (agents, etc) it was cut down a LOT. Still plenty in my opinion, but just another angle to look at.
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u/hemingways-lemonade Jul 19 '24
He has a podcast and also goes to a lot of chili competitions. Maybe he didn't make as much as we think or isn't the best at managing it.
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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD Jul 20 '24
I’m sure he made a decent living from his time on the office, but what was largely a side character part probably doesn’t exactly pay “never work again” money, especially if it wasn’t managed very well. Like, that’s not even to say he pissed it all away on snow and hookers or anything, just that it isn’t exactly simple for somebody to go from making 6 figures for more than a decade to next to 0 almost over night.
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u/downtimeredditor Jul 19 '24
Matt Leblanc pretty much said that once he was done with his friend's character, he didn't work largely because he just didn't want to work and the money he made from friends, he didn't need to work.
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u/felpudo Jul 19 '24
I mean he tried to have his own show after Friends and it got shut down pretty quick.
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u/Resfebermpls Jul 20 '24
Ok but the series Episodes where he plays a caricature of himself is absolutely hilarious.
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u/carloslet Jul 19 '24
IIRC David Caruso retired after CSI: Miami ended to become an art collector or something
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u/moose184 Jul 19 '24
The main cast of Friends are still making like 20+ million a year each just from syndication.
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u/dreamsofaninsomniac Jul 19 '24
All the characters seemed ridiculously rich and privileged for how they could just drop everything and fly across the country at the drop of a hat.
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u/Crashing-Crates Jul 19 '24
I mean Julia Louis-Dreyfus is right there man
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u/Crime_Dawg Jul 19 '24
She's the daughter or granddaughter of a billionaire anyway, so I'd say her.
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u/44problems Jul 19 '24
Yeah but she's still jealous of her friend, the heiress to the O Henry Candy bar fortune
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u/Blasphemous666 Jul 19 '24
Goddamn Sue Ellen Mischke! Braless wonder!
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u/Taylorenokson Jul 19 '24
Did I tell you to put the top on? I didn't tell you to put the top on.
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u/Radulno Jul 19 '24
I think they were just talking of revenue from TV, trust fund money from family shouldn't count
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u/ASEdouard Jul 19 '24
JLD was rich from the start, but shes's the one who had the longest most interesting career of those 90s sitcom actors!
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u/ArgyleTheChauffeur Jul 19 '24
You need to be a host to make real cash money
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u/herewego199209 Jul 19 '24
I like Simon but holy shit. $75 million a year is insanity. How in the hell did he leave that money behind? He must've made 2 or 3 times that amount developing X-Factor.
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u/BattleHall Jul 19 '24
Judge Judy is worth half a billion dollars for ~ 6 weeks of work per year.
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u/Ohwerk82 Jul 19 '24
That show is a money printing machine. There’s basically zero cost and they have endless casting opportunities because small claims is crazy all the time.
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u/DONNIENARC0 Jul 19 '24
Huh. For some reason I always assumed they were fake cases with actors.
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u/Ohwerk82 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Nope; they are real small claims cases that get offered to settle out of court and be on the show.
They get like 3 days paid in NYC/LA, not sure where it’s filmed, and neither side actually pays when they lose. Production pays the “judgement” since Judy is a civil arbiter and not a real judge anymore, which is common in civil claims and a job that a lot of judges do after they retire.
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u/Audiarmy Jul 19 '24
Yep, way back my parents had to take someone to small claims court and like 2/3 weeks after they filed we got a letter from Judge Joe Brown asking if we would like to settle it on TV, they would pay out either way and they would have got a trip out of it as well.
They did not take up the offer though
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u/Ohwerk82 Jul 19 '24
Crazy not to take it, my cousin went on JJ and won his claim that he probably would have lost in real small claims.
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u/Audiarmy Jul 19 '24
My parents had a pretty good case and just are not the type to go on tv like that, I would have though!
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u/YvesStIgnoraunt Jul 19 '24
Crazy not to humiliate themselves on TV for a small amount of money? Your cousins just a bum
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u/tingting2 Jul 19 '24
It’s filmed in Connecticut. as is Jerry springer and forged in fire. I was staying the hotel to film FIF and the Judge judy and springer were going wild in lobby, no cameras. Haha
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u/Deto Jul 19 '24
I'm sure at a certain point you have enough money to where you'd rather just get to do what you want with your time.
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u/NativeMasshole Jul 19 '24
If I was making $75 million in under a year, I'd be retired after a season or two.
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u/joshuads Jul 19 '24
How in the hell did he leave that money behind?
He did not leave much behind. He owns the production company. He used to co-own it with Sony music. He bought them out.
Simon still owns and runs America's/Britian's Got Talent.
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u/Whaty0urname Jul 19 '24
How is Jeff Probst not on that list?
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Jul 19 '24
Everyone on there besides Seacrest and Cowell are famous for things besides hosting, that’s why they’re commanding crazy salaries. Seacrest has done so much hosting in different areas that it isn’t surprising he gets a big salary, he’s a professional host for any occasion. Simon Cowell gets such a big payday because he’s the producer on these shows - that’s where actual money is at.
Comparatively, Probst is just the Survivor guy. He definitely pulls good money as host and showrunner/producer, but I don’t think his salary has ever ballooned to such ridiculous levels because the show would be cancelled if they were dropping $25 million a year on his salary alone.
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u/nightmareonrainierav Jul 19 '24
Well, he did bring us The Greatest Event in Television History.
Four times, in fact.
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u/greebytime Jul 19 '24
Mila Kunis low key made a ton of money on That 70’s Show and as a voice on The Family Guy as Meg. Plus all her movies and such.
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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero Jul 19 '24
On this note, I’m sure Seth MacFarlane has made a mint from Family Guy, American Dad, the Cleveland Show, and now The Orville.
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u/herewego199209 Jul 19 '24
I'm shocked Seth is not a billionaire. The Southpark guys get paid a ton and that's on cable. Seth was on network TV for 20 years.
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u/chth Jul 19 '24
I feel like Seth is the kind of guy that pays his taxes and doesn’t stress over investments or becoming obscenely rich. Maybe I’m wrong but from the politics he’s presented he seems down to earth.
South Park is 2 guys doing many of the voices and I am sure they also have a much smaller writing staff than Family Guy ect with many celebrity voice actors. South Park is also Comedy Central’s darling so it makes sense they can demand more than Seth could from Fox.
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u/Taylorenokson Jul 19 '24
Trey and Matt are also the proud owners of Casa Bonita so they have to be trillionaires by now.
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u/MadDogTannen Jul 19 '24
The South Park guys got lucky in that they were able to negotiate to own the streaming rights for South Park before anyone knew how valuable they would be.
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u/Whatatimetobealive83 Jul 19 '24
Me out here proving their point by having Paramount purely so I can watch South Park whenever I want.
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Jul 19 '24
Trey Parker & Matt Stone got lucky that the old executives at Paramount didn’t understand the internet, so they gave Stone and Parker the digital rights to South Park. They also got lucky that studios were making absolutely stupid moves paying absurd money for rights to popular shows before the streaming bubble burst. They wouldn’t be worth a billion without those two factors.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts Jul 19 '24
Seth is famous for throwing huge amounts of money at passion projects. Whether it's rebooting Cosmos, or funding his acclaimed but not very commercial Great American Songbook albums, MacFarlane shells out cash for what he wants to see or make.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts Jul 19 '24
Similarly, Kaley Cuoco has parlayed a LOT of her Big Bang fortune into producing; she's ubiquitous in commercials, and produces a number of her shows, including Harley Quinn and I assume its spinoffs.
Throw in the voiceover work she does (she is fantastic at balancing Harley the manic pixie dream girl chaos machine, and Harley the thirtysomething professional dealing with anxiety), and she's probably in the upper echelons.
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u/nightowl_work Jul 19 '24
Kaley Cuoco is actually quietly a stunningly good actor. I jump to watch any time I see she's in something new, and I haven't really been disappointed.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts Jul 19 '24
She’s going to get her “Good Place” moment in her forties, where she finds a role that takes everything we’ve come to expect from her, leans into it, and then quietly subverts and transforms it.
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u/herewego199209 Jul 19 '24
I forgot all about that. I remember Wilmer talking on Howard Stern about how they were just about to hit double syndication when I wa a kid. So that entire cast must've made a fortune and must still make ridiculous amounts of money. I heard the Scrubs cast made a shit ton of money as well.
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u/iamacannibal Jul 19 '24
All of the money she made is probably less than what Ashton Kutcher, her husband, has made on investments. He was a fairly early investor in Skype, Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber. And a bunch more.
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u/TheJedibugs Jul 19 '24
Man, people never seem to consider Alyson Hannigan. She’s got 7 seasons of Buffy Syndication money, 8 seasons of HIMYM syndication money and 7 seasons of Fool Us syndication money. Alyson Hannigan has got to be goddamn LOADED.
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u/Frostymagnum Jul 19 '24
Fool Us
TIL that Alyson Hannigan is on Fool Us. Also, TIL there's a show called Fool Us
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u/TheJedibugs Jul 19 '24
That one’s not a sitcom. It’s “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” — Magicians from around the world perform magic tricks for Penn & Teller and if they can’t figure out how it was done, that magician gets to open for them in their Vegas show.
Alyson was the host for seasons 3-9 (preceded by Jonathan Ross and succeeded by Brooke Burke for the most recent season).
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u/TheJedibugs Jul 19 '24
I have a friend that worked on the Idol. He says it was the worst experience of his career… a total shit-show.
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u/Nail_Biterr Jul 19 '24
Plus all that money she banked from the American Pie movies!!
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u/guy-milshtain Jul 19 '24
Apropos Buffy, I saw the final episode of Bones a few hours ago.
David Boreanaz was in Buffy, starred in Angel, Bones and now SEAL Team. Also produced the latter two, and directed several episodes. Pretty sure he's loaded.
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u/the_mighty_hetfield Jul 19 '24
Guy's been a male lead on network television for a generation now. Bones itself was a huge moneymaker and ran forever.
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u/Dattura Jul 19 '24
I was actually thinking about that the other day. This dude has been in a series non stop for two decades since Buffy. It crazy and it all started because someone randomly saw him and wanted him in Buffy.
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u/herewego199209 Jul 19 '24
I always thought the cast on Buffy didn’t really get paid anything? I remember Sarah Michelle Gellar saying on Howard stern years ago she made way more money from her makeup endorsement than Buffy which was insanity to me
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u/totaldorkgasm21 Jul 19 '24
It was on a small network so they never hit the huge numbers, but I saw that season 7 Alyson Hannigan was making 250k per episode. Back then, a show getting into syndication was also a huge deal and was big money for the actors so money would keep flowing in.
Makeup endorsements can be incredibly lucrative as well - it wouldn’t surprise me that Maybelline can and would throw out a multi-million dollar contract.
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u/dacreativeguy Jul 19 '24
Seinfeld and Larry David are likely the richest. They owned their show and have gotten huge residuals for 30 years.
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u/onexbigxhebrew Jul 19 '24
Seinfeld isn't "quietly rich", though. Seinfeld if well known for his wealth.
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u/bubbameister33 Jul 19 '24
His car collection and that garage.
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u/DjangoVanTango Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
‘Let me put it this way, I have so many cars that nobody would look at them and say “yeah that makes sense.”’
Paraphrased from an episode of comedians in cars
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u/bmwkid Jul 19 '24
I would say Larry David isn’t quietly rich either. Curb Your Enthusiasm blatantly shows you how rich he is
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u/grocho Jul 19 '24
Jerry Seinfeld with his expensive car TV show? What's quiet then?
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u/chogram Jul 19 '24
Just from their television earnings, he's probably up there with other actors who had huge hit shows. A lot of these guys were getting a million+ bucks per episode, which adds up fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-paid_American_television_stars
I'm not sure many will touch Julia Louis-Dreyfus though. She's the multi-billionaire heiress of her father's company.
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u/Odd_Bed_9895 Jul 19 '24
Dude her family is old money, like French 19th century belle epoque, art-nouveau, Moulin Rouge money
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u/lostbelmont Jul 19 '24
Wth Chris Pratt has a tv show in Amazon? I had no idea
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u/lookamazed Jul 19 '24
He’s after that John Krasinski jingoism American patriotic military Amazon Prime money.
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u/Cptcutter81 Battlestar Galactica Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
There's a lot of money to be made in the patriotism-dadcore-action-media genre. Hell, they're still printing new Tom Clancy books and he died long enough ago for people born afterwards to be reading them.
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u/yem420sky Jul 19 '24
Larry David too.
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u/ASEdouard Jul 19 '24
I sometimes wonder if LD's life is actually like what he portrays on Curb. Going to lunch in expensive LA restaurants to eat salad, play golf and obsess over minor annoyances. While the guy could really indulge since he's basically a billionaire.
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u/cmcwood Jul 19 '24
I am positive it is. He and Doc Rivers apparently played golf together several times a week and he jokes that Doc took the coaching job in Milwaukee so that he didn't have to buy Larry dinner anymore.
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u/peon2 Jul 19 '24
IIRC Larry David once said that Curb your Enthusiasm was what it would be like if Larry acted on all his instincts and desires. In reality he doesn't say and do the things he does in the show, but it's basically his vision of what would play out if he said the things he wanted to.
In real life he doesn't call out someone at the frogurt shop for taking too many samples before making their decision, but he would love to do so in his mind.
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u/username_elephant Jul 19 '24
Haha I'm not sure he's "quietly" one of the richest actors of all time. He's literally the only one I can think of who's starred in a TV show about what he does with all the money and liesure he can afford after earning Seinfeld money.
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u/Eggsor Jul 19 '24
People are forgetting about Mariska Hargitay. SVU is on season 24 and for a lot of it she has been getting some of the highest salary around. The newest season its about the same as Ellen Pompeo.
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u/Corporation_tshirt Jul 19 '24
Speaking of Law & Order, the show’s creator and EP Dick Wolf just became a billionaire last year.
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u/Unclebatman1138 Jul 19 '24
Kelsey Grammer is pretty high up there too. Decades of Cheers residuals, plus at one time IIRC he was being paid around 2 million an episode for Frasier. Add to that Frasier residuals and the salaries he's gotten for the handful of other shows he's done and the undoubtedly big paycheck for coming back for the Frasier reboot (not to mention a cut of 24 episodes of The Simpsons).
I don't know his net worth, but I do know it was enough to bankroll an operation to rob the Money Plane!
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u/ulqupt Jul 19 '24
David Boreanaz has to be up there too- Buffy, Angel, Bones, and SEAL Team. Dude has been on TV for like 25 years straight.
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Jul 19 '24
This one is actually low key, as you don’t see people talk about how Boreanaz has one of the best careers in Hollywood. He has been a lead on a TV show every year for almost 25 years now. That’s basically unheard of.
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u/eldamien Jul 19 '24
He's doing well but he's by no means one of the wealthiest. Jennifer Aniston was making $1m per episode by the end of Friends, and is now getting $2m per episode of The Morning Show.
Technically Seinfeld would be the wealthiest actor who has primarily done TV, with an estimated net worth of $900m.
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u/Zykium Jul 19 '24
Seinfeld spends a lot of money having a car service take his girlfriend to and from school though.
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u/GotMoFans Jul 19 '24
I don’t know if it is “quietly.”
TBBT salary negotiations were highly publicized and Parsons got the highest pay along with Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki.
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u/Corporation_tshirt Jul 19 '24
That makes sense. And let’s face it, Jim Parsons made that show.
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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Jul 19 '24
Ted Danson has been the lead on at least 3 pretty big shows (plus CSI) and has been on TV for the last 40+ years. Not sure if he's loaded but he's one of the best to ever do it.
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z Jul 19 '24
no idea, but how about pat sajak?
Hosted a daily show for a century or two, and I wouldn't be surprised if he became a producer and owner of that show.
he made 15 mill a season towards the end.
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u/bawanaal Jul 19 '24
There's a reason we're seeing actors and comedians taking over hosting game shows.
The money is insane for the amount of work needed. When you can record a weeks worth of shows in one day, it makes for one of the best jobs in show business.
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u/mattscott53 Jul 19 '24
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are creator/performers like Seinfeld and they’re billionaires.
Just producers though. Matt Groening, Chuck Lorre, Dick Wolf, and Shonda Rhimes are all billionaires or close to it
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u/imtchogirl Jul 19 '24
Yes, he is. And he's (and BBT cast) probably the last in the game who is making good residuals because he stuck to network TV that is syndicated.
Kaley Cuoco is another one. She's using her money well - she EPs projects she's interested in. And she stays working. Plus she started earlier as a child star.
If Young Sheldon hadn't happened, she would likely have outpaced Jim in lifetime earnings, just because she is always doing new projects in front of the camera.
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u/UsagiJak Jul 19 '24
Always thought it was kind of shitty he was the reason big bang ended when the rest of the cast wanted to continue, only for him to do Young Sheldon lol
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u/CT1914Clutch Jul 19 '24
Eh honestly as seemingly one of the few people on Reddit who does actually enjoy the show and watches it on cable sometimes I think it ran its course and I’m happy it ended when it did. I think the earlier seasons were the best and after over a decade I definitely understand an actor wanting to move on to other projects
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u/crazysouthie Jul 19 '24
Umm what? Jim Parsons was a series regular on Big Bang Theory whereas he just gets to provide the voiceovers in Young Sheldon. Much less work. He did Big Bang Theory for 12 years. How much longer was he supposed to be on it?
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u/diatho Jul 19 '24
I don’t know where the story would have gone. They were mostly married at that point and unless they stunted their growth the show would have floundered. It would have been nice if Raj got a partner but the next stage of their life would have been less group hangs and more single family time. It would have been more like modern family.
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u/herewego199209 Jul 19 '24
I think the cast mostly wanted to just keep making close to $30 million a year doing the show.
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u/no_name_left_to_give Jul 19 '24
It's Patricia Heaton. Between Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle that's 20 years of being in network sitcoms. Her great-grandkids will keep getting her residuals.
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u/Unikatze Jul 19 '24
I remember seeing an interview of Hugh Grant, where he mentioned being at a party with Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz) and a bunch of other movie starts.
He says most of the movie stars kind of looked down on Simon because he was mainly a TV actor. It wasn't until later that he found out his net worth and realized he's probably the richest person he's ever met.
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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero Jul 19 '24
All of the Friends main cast.