Seth Meyers has an estimated net worth of $10 Million
About Seth Meyers
Seth Adam Meyers, born on 28 December 1973, in Evanston, Illinois US, is an actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer and television host. He is predominantly known for his work as a writer on NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ and as the host of the ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch ‘Weekend Update’ on NBC.
Reports suggest that Seth’s net worth has recently crossed $10 million, amassed over his career in the entertainment industry, which began in 2001.
Seth Meyers Net Worth $10 Million
Seth Meyers grew up in New Hampshire, attending Manchester High School West, and later graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston. Seth Meyers’ brother, Josh, is also an actor. Seth initially started his career as an actor in the improvisation sketch group Mee-Ow of Northwestern University, where he and his brother Josh Meyers worked with the improvisation group called Preponderate. However, the considerable accumulation of Seth Meyers’ net worth began in 2004 when he starred in the film ‘See This Movie’ directed by David Rosenthal. Subsequently, he appeared in several short films such as ‘Maestro’, ‘Thunder Road’ and ‘The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend’. He also played minor roles in films including ‘American Dreamz’, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’, and ‘Spring Breakdown’, among others.
While he started as an actor, the primary source of Seth’s net worth is believed to be the ‘Saturday Night Live’ show. He joined the show in 2001, and after four years, he was promoted to writing supervisor. He, along with Tina Fey and Andrew Steele, developed into co-head writers. The ‘Saturday Night Live’ show received the Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety in 2009, in 2010, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2011. The show continues to receive various award nominations year after year, evidencing its popularity among the public and critics, and thereby contributing to the sustained growth of Meyers’ net worth.
Seth Meyers’ net worth has continued to rise through his appearances in episodes of sitcoms such as ‘Spin City’ and ‘The Mindy Project’. He is also the creator, writer, executive producer, and voice artist of the animated web comedy ‘The Awesomes’, streamed on Hulu. Additionally, he has hosted the Webby Awards ceremony, the 2010 ESPY Awards, and the 2011 ESPY Awards. Seth is set to further augment his net worth as the host of the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards to be held on 25 August 2014.
Moreover, Meyers gained popularity, and subsequently, added to his net worth after participating in Celebrity Poker Showdown, where he won a $100,000 prize, which he donated entirely to the Boston-based Jimmy Fund, known for raising funds to support adult and pediatric cancer care and research. Meyers has also been an ardent supporter of Barack Obama and his presidential campaigns during both elections.
In his personal life, Seth Meyers tied the knot with human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe in 2013.
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| 1 | [re Saturday Night Live (1975) audition] They flew me all the way back to New York to meet with Lorne Michaels. I realized later that he was doing a final personality vet. He said, ‘Do you think you can live in New York?’ And I thought, ‘Does anyone blow it at this stage? Does anybody get this far in the process, and then is like, ‘It’s definitely New York? Well, if you guys can’t be flexible on that, I’m not sure if I can be flexible on that.’ |
| 2 | About Madonna: “She’s the reason I asked my parents what the word ‘virgin’ meant. I’ve been fantasizing about her for so long, I feel like she’s entitled to half my earnings” (In Style magazine, Sept/2006). |
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| 1 | Though he’s from New England, his favorite football team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, not the New England Patriots. |
| 2 | Ashe Olsen Meyers, son with wife Alexi Ashe Meyers, was born on March 27, 2016. He came 2 weeks early. Ashe is his wife’s and Olsen his mother’s maiden name. |
| 3 | Attended college with friend Naomi Grossman. |
| 4 | Son of Larry Meyers and Hilary Meyers. |
| 5 | One of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014]. |
| 6 | After a very short engagement, announced in the summer of 2013, Seth married his longtime girlfriend, lawyer Alexi Ashe Meyers, on Martha’s Vineyard, MA, on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1, 2013. |
| 7 | Seth’s paternal grandfather, Lawrence Meyers, was of Austrian Jewish descent, while Seth’s paternal grandmother, Barbara Marcheck, was from a family of Bohemian (Czech) and Croatian descent. Seth’s mother has Swedish, English, and German ancestry. |
| 8 | At 40 years old, he’s the oldest person to start hosting NBC’s “Late Night”. |
| 9 | In 2006, he was promoted to Weekend Update co-anchor on Saturday Night Live (1975) with Amy Poehler. |
| 10 | Did the introduction for WMUR’s Friday Night Football broadcast on September 24, 2004. |
| 11 | An avid Boston Red Sox fan, he donated his Celebrity Poker Showdown winnings to the Jimmy Fund, which is a Boston-area charity that specializes in children’s cancer treatment. It has been associated with the Red Sox for over 50 years. |
| 12 | Promoted to full cast member status of Saturday Night Live (1975) in August 2003 along with Jeff Richards and Will Forte. |
| 13 | Older brother of Josh Meyers, a cast member of MADtv (1995). |
| 14 | Eventually, the road took him to Amsterdam, where he was the writer and co-star of a two-person comedy show called “Pick-ups and Hiccups” that he and Jill Benjamin staged five nights a week in a 200-seat theater. With Amsterdam as his home base, he did versions of the show in London and Edinburgh–even Singapore–but it was during a brief run at the Chicago Improv Festival that he caught the eye of a Saturday Night Live (1975) casting director. He was invited to New York for a try-out, then a follow-up, and then he was hired. |
| 15 | He commutes to Saturday Night Live (1975) by subway from his apartment in the West Village. |
| 16 | He sees three distinct Windows of Rejection, which refers to the fact that ideas on SNL have three different opportunities to get rejected before being aired. |
| 17 | His father, Larry Meyers (Lawrence “Larry” Meyers, Jr.), works with GE Trade Finance. His mother, Hilary Meyers (Hilary Claire (née Olson) Meyers), is a legendary teacher of French at McKelvie Middle School in Bedford, New Hampshire; she is known almost universally throughout the town as Madame Meyers. |
| 18 | After graduating from Manchester West High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, he earned a degree from Northwestern University, then he took his act on the road. He worked with the traveling troupe of a group called Boom Chicago. |
