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What Is Chris Lilley’s Net Worth?
Chris Lilley in an Australian comedian, tv producer, actor, musician, and author who a net worth of $5 million. Lilley is finest identified for creating and portraying characters in mockumentary TV exhibits corresponding to “We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year” (2005), “Summer Heights High” (2007), “Jonah from Tonga” (2014), “Ja’mie: Private School Girl” (2013), and “Angry Boys” (2011), which all aired on ABC or ABC1 in Australia.
Chris has served as a author, director, and producer on “Angry Boys,” “Ja’mie: Private School Girl,” “Jonah from Tonga,” and the 2019 Netflix collection “Lunatics,” and he has additionally written for the sketch comedy collection “Big Bite” (2003–2004) and the range present “Hamish & Andy” (2004). Lilley has appeared within the movie “Ned” (2003), the TV collection “The Monday Dump” (2001), and the miniseries “Young Lions” (2002), and he has hosted the podcasts “Jana’s Yard” (2020) and “Ja’miezing” (2021) in character as Jana Melhoopen-Jonks (from “Lunatics”) and Ja’mie King (from “Ja’mie: Private School Girl”), respectively. Chris has been in comparison with character improvisationalists like Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Larry David, Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Early Life
Chris Lilley was born Christopher Daniel Lilley on November 10, 1974, in Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia. Chris grew up with three older siblings, and he attended Pymble Public School. After commencement, he enrolled at Barker College, then he majored in Contemporary Music at Macquarie University, incomes a Bachelor of Arts with a Diploma of Education in 1997. In his twenties, Lilley labored at Turramurra North Public School as a childcare employee whereas he was beginning his stand-up comedy profession.
Career
From 2003 to 2004, Chris appeared on and wrote for the Seven Network comedy present “Big Bite,” portraying characters like Mr G, a highschool drama instructor, and Extreme Darren, an fanatic of utmost sports activities. He then wrote and appeared in six episodes of the Seven Network’s “Hamish & Andy” in 2004, and he created the 2005 collection “We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year,” which he co-wrote with Ryan Shelton. Lilley performed all the Australian of the Year nominees, together with police officer Phil Olivetti, housewife Pat Mullins, and narcissistic personal college pupil Ja’mie King (who would later seem in “Ja’mie: Private School Girl” and “Summer Heights High”). In 2007, Chris created the collection “Summer Heights High,” on which he performed Mr G, Ja’mie King, and Tongan teenager Jonah Takalua (who he portrayed in brownface). The following 12 months, he launched the one “Naughty Girl,” which he carried out as Mr G.
Lilley adopted “Summer Heights High” with “Angry Boys” in 2011, taking part in American rapper S.mouse!, Japanese mom Jen Okazaki, surfer Blake Oakfield, juvenile detention middle guard Ruth “Gran” Sims, and Ruth’s twin grandsons Daniel and Nathan Sims (who he beforehand portrayed in “We Can Be Heroes”). “Ja’mie: Private School Girl,” a co-production between Australia’s ABC and the U.S.’s HBO, premiered in 2013, and “Jonah From Tonga” aired on HBO, Australia’s ABC1, and the U.Ok.’s BBC Three in 2014. In 2019, Chris created the collection “Lunatics” for Netflix, and he performed six characters on the present, together with aspiring designer Keith Dick, lesbian pet psychic Jana Melhoopen-Jonks, and former grownup movie star Joyce Jeffries. Lilley teamed up with Paris Hilton and The Jonas Brothers for scenes that includes Jana Melhoopen-Jonks and Keith Dick.
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Personal Life
Chris was in a relationship with DJ Milly Gattegno from 2014 to 2016.
He turned a vegetarian as a toddler, and he was featured in a PETA Australia Starter Kit about vegetarianism and veganism alongside the quote:
“Even on the younger age of 5, I knew that it was mistaken to eat animals. So I went vegetarian – it is about the one politically right factor I’ve ever performed!”
In 2017, Lilley earned criticism after he posted a remix of the music clip “Squashed N****” on his Instagram account. The video options Chris in blackface because the “Angry Boys” character S.mouse!, and he posted it just a few days after a person was acquitted of manslaughter within the loss of life of an Indigenous teenager named Elijah Doughty (who was run over by the person in query). Thousands voiced their disgust for the video on social media, and Lilley later ended up deleting all his social media accounts.
The present “Jonah from Tonga” has been labeled racist by many, and the Tongan schoolboy Jonah was primarily based on has stated that he felt “completely embarrassed, filled with hate, offended and exploited” by the character. Civil rights organizations such because the NAACP, The Asian Pacific American Media Coalition, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, wrote to HBO about their “deep concern” over the present. After the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, “Jonah from Tonga” was faraway from the BBC iPlayer streaming service, and Netflix eliminated “Jonah from Tonga,” “Angry Boys,” “Summer Heights High,” and “We Can Be Heroes.”
Awards and Nominations
In 2006, Lilley gained a Golden Rose for Best Male Comedy Performance for “We Can Be Heroes” on the Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival. He has acquired seven Logie Award nominations, profitable the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent for “We Can Be Heroes” in 2006 and Most Popular Actor for “Summer Heights High” in 2008 and “Ja’mie: Private School Girl” in 2014. In 2012, “Angry Boys” earned Chris an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy and an Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a TV Comedy Series. In 2008, Lilley gained Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Television Comedy Series and Best Performance in a Television Comedy for “Summer Heights High,” and he acquired Best Lead Actor in Television, Best Screenplay in Television, and Best Comedy Series nominations for “We Can Be Heroes” in 2005. Chris has additionally earned two nominations from the Banff Television Festival, Best Comedy Program for “We Can Be Heroes” in 2006 and Best Comedy Program for “Summer Heights High” in 2008.
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