Judy Gold Net Worth 2024

What Is Judy Gold’s Net Worth?

Judy Gold is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, producer, and podcaster who has a net worth of $3 million. Judy Gold started performing stand-up whereas in college. Her pals dared her to rise up on stage, and a brand new profession path was born. She went on to carry out stand-up all around the world and is most well known for her writing work and her theater initiatives. Judy gained two Daytime Emmy Awards for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” which aired from 1996 to 2002. She labored on the present as a author and producer. Judy co-wrote and starred within the one-woman reveals “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother” and “The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom,” and she or he has launched the comedy albums “Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby,” “Conduct Unbecoming,” and “Kill Me Now.” She has greater than 50 performing credit to her identify, together with the movies “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001), “Our Italian Husband” (2004), “The Truth About Santa Claus” (2020), “She Came to Me” (2023), and “Tripped Up” (2023) and the tv sequence “All American Girl” (1994–1995), “The City” (1995–1996), “Nightcap” (2017), “The Other F Word” (2017), “Better Things” (2020–2022), “The First Lady” (2022), and “City on a Hill” (2022).

Gold was an govt producer on “The Other F Word,” and she or he was a author and story editor on “Better Things.” She was featured in 2007’s “Making Trouble,” a documentary about feminine Jewish comedians that was produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive, and in 2011, she was named a Givenik Ambassador. In 2014, Judy appeared on the fact sequence “Celebrity Wife Swap,” buying and selling lives with Penn Jillette, the notorious illusionist, comedian, and actor who’s finest identified for his work within the group Penn & Teller. She started internet hosting the podcast “Kill Me Now with Judy Gold” in 2015, and she or he printed the e-book “Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians We Are All in Trouble” in 2020.

Early Life

Judy Gold was born Judith H. Gold on November 15, 1962, in Newark, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Ruth and Harold Gold, and she or he grew up in Clark, New Jersey, with sister Jane and brother Alan. Judy studied music at Rutgers University, graduating in 1984. During her time at Rutgers, she tried stand-up comedy on a dare.

Career

Gold co-wrote the one-woman present “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother” with Kate Moira Ryan. The present “seamlessly weav[es] precise interviews with Jewish moms throughout the United States along with recollections from her childhood and personal experiences as a Jewish mom,” and it was carried out on the Ars Nova Theater  and St. Luke’s Theatre in New York in 2006. In 2011, Judy’s one-woman present, “The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom” (which was additionally co-written with Ryan), premiered on the DR2 Theatre in New York. In 2015, Judy portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt within the off-Broadway manufacturing “Clinton: The Musical.” Gold made her TV debut in a 1991 episode of “Roseanne,” then she carried out stand-up comedy on “An Evening on the Improv,” “Just for Laughs,” and “HBO Comedy Half-Hour” and bought her personal “Comedy Central Presents” particular in 2000. From 1994 to 1995, she performed Gloria Schechter on the ABC sitcom “All-American Girl” alongside Margaret Cho. Judy appeared within the 1995 TV film “Here Come the Munsters” and guest-starred on “The City” (1995), “Wings” (1996), and “Arli$$” (1998), and her first function movie was the 2001 Woody Allen-directed comedy “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.” Gold guest-starred on “The Drew Carey Show” (2000), “Law & Order” (2000), “Sex and the City” (2001), “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (2002), “Ed” (2004), and “Ugly Betty” (2009), and from 2007 to 2008, she voiced The Roving Eye, Madam Midterm, and Granny on the animated sequence “Super Normal.” From 2008 to 2013, she was a commentator on “TruTV Presents: World’s Dumbest.”

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Judy performed herself in a 2012 episode of “30 Rock,” a 2015 episode of “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” and a 2016 episode of “Difficult People,” and she or he guest-starred on “The Big C” (2013), “2 Broke Girls” (2013), “Melissa and Joey” (2014), “Louie” (2015), “Broad City” (2016), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2016), “Search Party” (2016), “Murphy Brown” (2018), “Madam Secretary” (2019), “Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens” (2021; 2023), “Life & Beth” (2022), and “Girls5eva” (2022). She appeared within the movies “The Truth About Santa Claus” (2020), “She Came to Me” (2023), “Tripped Up” (2023), and “Love… Reconsidered” (2024), and in 2017, she performed Deb Hafner on the Pop sitcom “Nightcap.” In 2022, Gold had recurring roles as Elizabeth Read on “The First Lady” and Cassandra Kassell on “City on a Hill,” which each aired on Showtime. She performed Chava in 5 episodes of the FX sequence “Better Things” from 2020 to 2022, and she or he was a narrative editor on the present throughout season 5. Judy was additionally credited as a author on the 2022 episodes “Oh, I’m Not Gonna Tell Her” and “Family Meeting.”

Personal Life

Judy was in a relationship with Sharon Callahan for almost 20 years, and the 2 welcomed sons Henry (born 1996) and Ben (born 2001) collectively. According to a 2003 “San Francisco Chronicle” article, “Sharon had Henry, after which Judy had Ben, they usually adopted one another’s youngsters.” Gold later started a relationship with Elysa Halpern, and in a 2016 interview with “Out” journal, she stated that she and Elysa had been collectively for 9 years at that time. Judy’s official web site states that she “makes use of her comedy to provide again to her group.” She has labored with GLAAD and the Ali Forney Center to advocate and lift funds for LGBTQ+ rights, and she or he has taken half in fundraisers for Project ALS and varied Jewish organizations.

Awards and Nominations

Gold earned 5 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” profitable for Outstanding Talk Show in 1998 and 1999. Two of her nominations had been for Outstanding Writing – Special Class. In 2001, she acquired an American Comedy Award nomination for Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic, and in 2002, she earned a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Comedian. For her stage work, Judy has acquired a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance for “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother” in addition to an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance for “The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom.”