Jerry Seinfeld facts: Age, wief, children, net worth —
Jerry Seinfeld Is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is among the few stand-up comedians to have his own television series. Ambitious and driven by perfectionism, he went on to become one of the most highly paid comedians in the entertainment industry.
What gives him the edge over other comedians is his knack for effortless comedy that leaves his audiences with infectious laughing sessions. His observational humour is often based on personal relationships, social obligations and the trivial issues faced on a daily basis in modern life.
In a career that has spanned more than three decades, Seinfeld continues to come out with innovative approaches in stand-up comedy. He was ranked by Comedy Central to be the ‘12th out of 100 Greatest Comedians of all Time’.
He has appeared on a number of television shows including, ‘The Larry Sanders Show’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’. He also co-wrote and co-produced the film, ‘Bee Movie’. He is the author of the book ‘Seinlanguage’, which made it to the New York Times Best Seller list.
To learn more interesting and intriguing facts about his childhood, personal life and achievements in the field of comedy, scroll down and continue to read this biography.
How old is Jerry Seinfeld?
Jerry Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He celebrated his 69th birthday in 2023. He grew up in Massapequa, New York. He attended State University of New York at Oswego for two years.
After his second year he transferred to Queens College where he earned a degree in communications and theater. He developed a passion for stand-up comedy while at Queens College and would periodically appear at open-mic nights.
After college Jerry spent nearly 15 years grinding out a career as a stand-up comedian before hitting the television jackpot.
He was a successful touring comic when in May 1981 he had an extremely successful appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. This appearance led to many more appearances on The Tonight Show and other late night programs like Late Night with David Letterman.
Jerry Seinfeld parents
Jerry Seinfeld’s birth name is Jerome Allen Seinfeld. His father, Kálmán Seinfeld, a sign painter, was Jewish and collected jokes that he heard while serving in World War II.
His mother, Betty (née Hosni) and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were Jews from Aleppo, Syria. Their nationality was stated as Turkish when they immigrated in 1917, as Syria was under the Ottoman Empire.
Jerry Seinfeld siblings
Seinfeld has an older sister named Carolyn Liebling. enjoy a very close relationship. The brother and sister duo is one of New York’s power siblings.
Carolyn manages Seinfeld’s business affairs and had done so right from the start.
Jerry Seinfeld instituted a scholarship for students at LaGuardia High School, Manhattan and she administers this scholarship to the best of her ability.
Jerry Seinfeld wife
Jerry Seinfeld is married to Jessica Seinfeld (née Sklar), an American author and philanthropist . They have been married since 1999 and she is the only wife he’s ever had so far!
Sklar grew up in Vermont as the middle child of a software engineer and Victim Services Advocate, but today she is an author five times over. She writes vegan and family cookbooks; her recent offering, Vegan, at Times, is already a New York Times Bestseller like her other books.
Sklar also founded the Good+ Foundation. The foundation’s “unique model of pairing essential goods with innovative services creates an upward trajectory for under-resourced families,” according to the website.
Sklar and Seinfeld met in a pretty New York way: at a Reebok gym in Manhattan. However, there was just one problem: Sklar was already married to her first husband, Eric Nederlander. The marriage was already in trouble by the time she met the comedian, and she rebuffed him at first.
“He came around again and said something funny, and I actually had to laugh,” she recalled later. She and Seinfeld hit it off anyway, and her husband talked to Page Six about how upset. “I was manipulated, misled, and completely caught off guard by Jessica’s infidelity,” he said at the time. “Jerry and Jessica have no respect for decent values. They deserve each other.”
Still, the relationship continued, and they were engaged just a year after they started dating. They married on Christmas Day 1999 in a private ceremony.
Jerry Seinfeld children
Seinfeld and Sklar have three children together. Their eldest, daughter Sascha, came a year after their marriage in 2000, while son Julian followed in 2003. Their youngest son, Shepherd, arrived in 2005.
Fatherhood changed everything for Seinfeld. It affects “almost everything I do … trying to stay healthy, how I use my time and plan my schedule, I think: ‘If this takes me away from them, it better be very important,’” he shared in 2007.
The comedian doesn’t need to have big moments with his children. He appreciates the small things. “You just see them in their room reading a comic book and you get to kind of watch that for a minute, or [having] a bowl of Cheerios at 11 o’clock at night when they’re not even supposed to be up,” Jerry told magazine Mr. Porter in 2017. “The garbage, that’s what I love.”
What is Jerry Seinfeld’s net worth?
According to Celebritynetworth.com, Jerry Seinfeld is estimated to have a net worth of $925 million. Jerry earned the vast majority of his fortune thanks to the sitcom “Seinfeld” which has proven to be one of the most-profitable shows in television history, in terms of syndication royalties.
Both Jerry and his co-creator Larry David own 15% of the show’s back-end equity points. So not only did Jerry earn a fortune from base salary while the show was on, he has earned exponentially more in the years thereafter from global syndication sales.
To date, Seinfeld has generated several billion dollars in syndication revenue, including $500 million Netflix paid in September 2019 to acquire digital rights for five years.
Jerry personally earns $20-50 million in a given year, largely depending on if he is touring or not. He earns $20 million from a national tour. In 2020 Netflix paid him $20 million for exclusive rights to his special “23 Hours to Kill”. Between June 2019 and June 2020 he earned $50 million thanks largely to Netflix deals and touring.
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