What is Jeff Daniels net worth and salary?
Jeff Daniels is an American actor, musician, and writer who has a net worth of $45 million. Daniels appeared in more than 80 film and television projects and had a successful career as a Tony-nominated stage actor, performing on Broadway in “Fifth of July” (1980), “The Golden Age” (1984), “Redwood Curtain’ (1993), ‘God of Carnage’ (2009–2010), ‘Blackbird’ (2016) and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (2018–2019). Jeff is the founder of the Rose Theater Company in Chelsea, Michigan and has written many plays for the organization. He made his big screen debut in 1981’s Ragtime, which he followed up with a performance in the Academy Award-winning Terms of Endearment.
Daniels went on to appear in films such as “Something Wild” (1986), “Arachnophobia” (1990), “Dumb and Dumber” (1994), “The Hours” (2002) and “The Squid and the Whale” (2005) , and starred as Will McAvoy in the HBO series “The Newsroom” from 2012 to 2014. He co-wrote and directed the films “Escanaba in da Moonlight” (2001) and “Super Sucker” (2002), and he also wrote produced “Guest Artist” since 2019. Jeff has also released the studio albums “Jeff Daniels Live and Unplugged”, “Jeff Daniels Live at The Purple Rose Theatre”, “Grandfather’s Hat”, “Keep It Right Here”, ” Together Again’, ‘Days Like These’ and ‘Alive and Pretty Well’.
Youth
Jeff Daniels was born Jeffrey Warren Daniels on February 19, 1955, in Athens, Georgia. When Jeff was 6 weeks old, his parents, Marjorie and Bob, moved their family to Michigan. Daniels and his siblings, Jodi and John, grew up in a Methodist household in Chelsea, where their father owned a lumber company; Bob also served as the city’s mayor in the early 1960s. After graduating from high school, Jeff enrolled at Central Michigan University and became involved in the theater program, and in 1976, he participated in a bicentennial repertory program at the theater school . of Eastern Michigan University. Guest director Marshall W. Mason invited Daniels to work at the Circle Repertory Theater in New York, and he appeared in Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July during the company’s 1977–78 season.
Career
“Fifth of July” moved to Broadway in 1980, and Daniels earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. That year he made his television debut in an episode of ‘Hawaii Five-O’, and his film debut came the following year when he played the role of PC O’Donnell in ‘Ragtime’. His next film, 1983’s Terms of Endearment, won an Oscar for Best Picture, and he then appeared in 1985’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination and inspired the name . his theater companies. Jeff received another Golden Globe nomination for 1986’s “Something Wild” and in the early 1990s starred in “Arachnophobia” and “Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael.” He hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 1991 (he would host again in 1995), then starred in the 1992 science fiction film “Timescape” and portrayed Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in 1993’s “Gettysburg,” a role he would reprise in 2003’s “Gods and Generals.” In 1994, Daniels appeared in the blockbuster “Speed,” which grossed $350.4 million at the box office, and starred opposite Jim Carrey in the comedy “Dumb and Dumber”. The film was a hit, grossing $247.3 million worldwide, and the duo reprized their roles as Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas in 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To, which grossed $350.4 million at the box office office and co-starred with Jim Carrey in the comedy ‘Dumb and Dumber’. The film was a hit, grossing $247.3 million worldwide, and the duo reprized their roles as Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas in 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To, which grossed $350.4 million at the box office office and co-starred with Jim Carrey in the comedy ‘Dumb and Dumber’. The film was a hit, grossing $247.3 million worldwide, and the duo reprized their roles as Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas in 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To.
In 1996, Daniels starred in “Fly Away Home,” “2 Days in the Valley” and Disney’s “101 Dalmatians,” another hit that grossed $320.7 million worldwide. He co-starred with Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire in 1998’s Pleasantville and portrayed George Washington in the 2000 television movie The Crossing. In 2002, Jeff starred in ‘The Hours’ alongside Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, and co-starring received Best Ensemble Awards at the Circuit Community Awards and the Gold Derby Awards. He then appeared in the 2004 television movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven and the 2005 feature films The Squid and the Whale, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Good Night, and Good Luck. Daniels portrayed Alvin Dewey in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous, then appeared in the political thrillers Traitor (2008) and State of Play (2009). He co-starred with John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph in 2009’s “Away We Go,” then starred in “Paper Man” (2009) and “Howl” (2010).
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In 2012, Jeff began starring in “The Newsroom,” which earned him a Primetime Emmy, as well as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He appeared in the films ‘Steve Jobs’ (2015), ‘The Martian’ (2015) and ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ (2016), then played Frank Griffin in the 2017 Netflix miniseries ‘Godless’. In 2018, Daniels appeared in The Catcher Was a Spy and portrayed John O’Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower. In 2020, Jeff played FBI director James Comey in the Showtime miniseries “The Comey Rule,” co-starred with Aaron Paul in the film “Adam,” and narrated the History Channel miniseries “Washington.” In 2019,
Personal life
Jeff married Kathleen Rosemary Treado on July 13, 1979 and they have three children, daughter Nellie (born 1990) and sons Benjamin (born 1984) and Lucas (born 1987). Daniels moved back to his hometown in 1986 and owns an “affordable audio and video company”, 218 Studio, and a theater company there.
He founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in 1991 and described it as “the home of world-class original American theater in Chelsea, MI.” Jeff was the spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and in 2006 was inducted into the Michigan Walk of Fame. He delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan in December 2009 and received an honorary doctorate of fine arts. Daniels endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and narrated a pro-Biden campaign ad titled “America Needs Michigan,” in which he stated that “Michigan deserves a president who believes in things like decency, honesty and respect . “.
Awards and nominations
Daniels has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for “The Newsroom” in 2013 and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for “Godless” in 2018. He earned Golden Globe nominations for “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Something Wild,” “The Squid and the Whale,” “The Newsroom,” and “The Comey Rule,” and received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations . . Jeff won a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for “Arachnophobia”, an International Fantasport Fantasy Film Award for “Timescape”, an Online Film & Television Association Award for “Godless” and an Audience Award . at the 2002 US Comedy Arts Festival for “Super Sucker”.
Daniels was honored with an Independent Career Achievement Award from the Video Software Distributors Association in 2002 and received an Honorary Lady Harimaguada Award at the 2008 Las Palmas Film Festival. He won a Chlotrudis Award for “The Squid and the Whale” and “Guest Artist” earned him Best Actor awards at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival and SENE Film, Music. and the Art Festival. For his work on stage, Jeff earned Tony nominations for Best Actor in a Play for “God of Carnage,” “Blackbird,” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
