Jerry Seinfeld is a celebrated American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his sitcom Seinfeld, which aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998.
Born in 1954, Seinfeld started his career as a stand-up comedian and specialized in observational comedy. In 2004, the American cable channel Comedy Central announced him as the 12th greatest comedian of all time.
He is also celebrated for co-producing, co-writing, and starring in the movie Bee Movie, which earned a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
Besides, Jerry Seinfeld began the reality series The Marriage Ref and the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
In fact, he received 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his contribution to the Seinfeld and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and four Grammy Award nominations for his other comedy albums.
Jerry Seinfeld Age, Girlfriend, Marriage
Before the show Seinfeld, Jerry dated fellow comedian Carol Leifer, and the couple got engaged in 1984 but was called off. When he reached 37, he started a relationship with 17 year old Shoshanna Lonstein.
Their relationship lasted for four years and ended in 1997. Then Seinfeld met Jessica Sklar, a public relations executive for Tommy Hilfiger, who was already married to Eric Nederlander.
There was nothing as relationship between them until Nederlander filed for divorce. After that, Seinfeld and Sklar started dating and married in 1999.
Now, 70-year-old Jerry Seinfeld is living a happy life with his wife, a daughter, and two sons.
Jerry Seinfeld Net Worth
With the success of the show Seinfeld, Forbes Magazine revealed that Jerry Seinfeld had earned $267 million in 2004 and placed him at the top of the celebrity earnings list that year.
Seinfeld charged $5 million per episode of Seinfeld for 22 episodes for the 1oth season. Then he made $100 million from syndication deals and his other stand-up performances in 2004 and $60 million in 2006.
He went to earn $10 million for promoting Microsoft. Between June 2008 and 2009, Seinfeld generated $85 million and $32 million in 2013.
Forbes ranked Jerry Seinfeld the highest-paid comedian for 2015, second highest paid for 2016, and again, the highest paid in 2017.
As of 2024, Jerry is Seinfeld a billionaire, according to Bloomberg, with a net worth of more than $1 billion.
