Anthony Anderson net worth How much does Anthony Anderson make and what is his net worth? American actor and writer Anthony Anderson has a...
Anthony Anderson net worth
How much does Anthony Anderson make and what is his net worth?
American actor and writer Anthony Anderson has a net worth of $25 million. Anthony Anderson makes almost $9 million a year from his part on the popular comedy show Black-ish. He gets paid for acting and producing, and he also gets a cut of the show's profits at the end of the year.
Early Years
Anthony Anderson was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 15, 1970. He grew up in Compton and went to Hollywood High School Performing Arts Magnet and Howard University, where he graduated in 1988. After his first attempt at stand-up comedy, which he called a "failure" (his first gig at The Comedy Act Theatre was under the name "Tasty Tony, the One and Only, and if there's another, he's a phoney," which led the audience to boo him off the stage before he even said a word), Anderson kept trying and met an actor named Guy Torry, who would become a key partner in the early stages of his career. Even though most of his work after this unlucky stage start was still in comedy, Anderson has made it clear that he doesn't see himself as a comedian in the traditional sense. Instead, he sees himself as an actor who often works in comedy.
Television Career
Before Black-ish, Anderson was probably best known for his own sitcom, All About the Andersons, and for his part in the fifth and final season of The Bernie Mac Show. In the teen show Hang Time, he played the lead part of Teddy Broadis. He has been in many TV shows as a guest star, including NYPD Blue, Malcolm & Eddie, In the House, and Ally McBeal, to name a few. Anderson joined the cast of the long-running NBC crime show Law & Order in 2008. He had already been in two other crime shows, K-Ville on Fox and The Shield on FX. Anthony got the lead part in the ABC show Black-ish in 2014. The show went on to become one of ABC's biggest hits. He is also the show's Executive Producer, which, as you'll see below, has added a lot to his pay for the series. Anderson has also played the father of the family, Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr., in two spin-offs of Black-ish: Grown-ish, which came out in 2018, and Mixed-ish, which came out in 2019.
Anderson's job as one of the most popular TV dads on ABC has kept him busy with other projects on the network. In 2017, while Jimmy Kimmel was on paternity leave, he was one of the famous guest hosts on Jimmy Kimmel Live. In 2019, he was in both of ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials. In 2020, he went back on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition as a contestant.
Over the years, he has also done voice work for three video games. In the computer game Scarface: The World Is Yours, he voiced a drug dealer in 2006. The next year, he played Troy Dollar in Def Jam: Icon. Then, in 2012, "Monster Voices" for the game Diablo III were given to him.
Career in Film
Even though Anderson is best known for his work on TV, he has also been in a fair number of films. His first movie was Liberty Heights, which came out in 1999. The same year, he and his friend Guy Torry were in Life, which starred Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. In the years that followed, he had small parts in a number of well-known films, such as Big Momma's House (with Martin Lawrence), Me, Myself & Irene with Jim Carrey, and Barbershop with Ice Cube. He also played the same character, Mahalik, in two more films in the Scary Movie series, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4. Anderson was hired in Martin Scorsese's The Departed two years after Scary Movie 4. Since then, he's been in films like Michael Bay's Transformers, Wes Craven's Scream 4, and the late sequel to Barbershop, Barbershop: The Next Cut, which came out in 2016. His film career has slowed down since Black-ish became popular, but it hasn't stopped. In 2017, he starred in the crime thriller Small Town Crime and did voice work for the animated films The Star and Ferdinand. In 2019, he starred in the Netflix film Beats.
Anderson has also directed at least one short film, which was made for the Responsibility Project and shown on the TV show In the House in 2009.
Anderson has also directed at least one short film, which was made for the Responsibility Project and shown on the TV show In the House in 2009.
Black-ish Salary
From the fifth season on, Anthony Anderson's pay per episode of Black-ish is $400,000 when you add up his acting salary, producer salary, and back-end profit income. Over 22 shows, that's $8.8 million before taxes per year. That is a big increase from the $100,000 per year he made in the first season, before distribution was set in stone.
Personal Life
In 1995, he married Alvina, the girl he had a crush on in college. Kyra and Nathan are their two kids. Nathan has already started his own playing career by appearing in the Netflix show Richie Rich. Anderson has Type 2 Diabetes and has worked with many groups to raise knowledge about the disease. But that's not the only thing he works for. In 2011, he played Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for the Alzheimer's Association and won $250,000 for the group.
Real Estate
Anthony Anderson lives in Los Angeles, California, as his main home. The three-bedroom, 3,451-square-foot house is said to have cost him about $1.1 million in 2005.
Car
Anderson wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 about how he spent almost $200,000 on a Mercedes Maybach, which was one of his big purchases. In the article, he says, "The selling price of my Maybach (about $198,000) did not stop me. It was my own prize. I've been through a lot. When I look back, I think my younger self would be proud of my older self and tell me how hard I worked.
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