Chris Parnell Net Worth 2024

What Is Chris Parnell’s Net Worth?

Chris Parnell is an American actor who has a net worth of $7 million. Parnell was a solid member on the NBC sketch collection “Saturday Night Live” from 1998 to 2006, and he had a really memorable recurring position as Dr. Leo Spaceman on one other NBC collection, “30 Rock,” from 2006 to 2013.

Chris has greater than 170 appearing credit to his title, together with the movies “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” (2004), “Hot Rod” (2007), “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (2007), “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” (2013), and “Sisters” (2015) and the tv collection “Miss Guided” (2008), “Suburgatory” (2011–2014), “Grown-ish” (2018), and “Happy Together” (2018–2019). Parnell voices Cyril Figgis on “Archer” (2009–current) and Jerry Smith on “Rick and Morty” (2013–current), and he has additionally lent his voice to the movies “Escape from Planet Earth” (2013), “Hotel Transylvania 2” (2015), and “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” (2018) and the TV exhibits “WordGirl” (2007–2015), “Electric City” (2012), “Nature Cat” (2015–2020), “Dawn of the Croods” (2015–2016), “The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” (2015–2017), “Elena of Avalor” (2016–current), “American Dad!” (2016–current), and “Family Guy” (2019–2021).

Chris can be identified for starring within the “Lazy Sunday” video with Andy Samberg; the video went viral after airing on “SNL” in December 2005 and was named one of many “movies that modified YouTube ceaselessly” by “Business Insider” in 2020.

Early Life

Chris Parnell was born Thomas Christopher Parnell in February 5, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up in a Southern Baptist family with father Jack (a radio personally) and mom Shirley. In a 2015 Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), Chris was requested about his heritage, and he responded, “My heritage I do not know, as a result of I’m adopted, however primarily based on data that the adoption company obtained from my beginning dad and mom, they appear to suppose I used to be Irish, English and German.” Parnell attended the Southern Baptist Educational Center and Germantown High School, and when he was 17, he determined that he wished to pursue a profession as a stage actor. After commencement, he enrolled on the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the place he earned a BFA in Drama. Chris then moved to Houston, Texas, and joined an apprentice actor program on the Alley Theatre. He was not requested to hitch the theatre firm after his apprenticeship, so he returned to Memphis and spent a yr educating at Germantown High School. In 1992, Parnell moved to Los Angeles and commenced taking lessons on the Groundlings.

Career

While he was a firm participant with the Groundlings, Chris began appearing in commercials and touchdown visitor roles on TV exhibits equivalent to “Hope & Gloria” (1996), “Seinfeld” (1997), and “The Jamie Foxx Show” (1997). He made his large display screen debut in 1996’s “Jingle All the Way,” and in 1998, he was employed as a featured participant on “Saturday Night Live.” He was promoted to a full solid member the next season, and in 2001, he was fired on account of price range cuts, however his absence did not final lengthy. As Parnell joked in a November 2002 “SNL” rap, “Lorne preferred me a lot he employed me twice.” In September 2006, after showing in additional than 140 episodes of the present, Chris was the sufferer of price range cuts as soon as once more, however he shortly discovered a brand new position, due to his former “SNL” castmate Tina Fey: Dr. Leo Spaceman on “30 Rock.” Quite presumably the world’s worst (however most entertaining) physician, Dr. Spaceman was featured in 24 episodes of the collection and was reportedly “kind of loosely primarily based on Lorne Michaels‘ actual life physician.”

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Parnell appeared within the 2000 “SNL” spin-off film “The Ladies Man,” then he co-starred with fellow University of North Carolina School of the Arts alum Diedrich Bader in 2003’s “Evil Alien Conquerors.” That yr he additionally appeared within the movie “Down with Love,” and in 2004, he performed Garth Holliday in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.” Chris reprised the position in 2013’s “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” In 2007, he co-starred with Andy Samberg, Isla Fischer, Bill Hader, and Danny McBride in “Hot Rod” and with John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows, and Kristen Wiig in “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.” In 2008, Parnell performed Vice Principal Bruce Terry on the ABC collection “Miss Guided,” then he appeared within the movies “Paper Man” (2009), “Labor Pains” (2009), “Hollywood & Wine” (2010), and “The Dogfather” (2010) and reunited together with his former “SNL” co-star Horatio Sanz on the Comedy Central sitcom “Big Lake” (2010).

From 2011 to 2014, Chris performed Fred Shay on ABC’s “Suburgatory” alongside “SNL” vet Ana Gasteyer, and in 2012, he appeared in “21 Jump Street,” “The Five-Year Engagement,” and “The Dictator.” He co-starred with quite a few “SNL” alums in 2015’s “Sisters,” “The Ridiculous 6,” and “The Spoils Before Dying,” then he appeared within the movies “Battle of the Sexes” (2017), “Life of the Party” (2018), “Slice” (2018), “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” (2018), and “The Last Laugh” (2019). Parnell performed Dean Parker on the “Black-ish” spin-off “Grown-ish” in 2018, and from 2018 to 2019, he was a collection common on the CBS sitcom “Happy Together.” In 2021, he appeared within the Netflix movie “Finding ʻOhana” and the Disney+ comedy “Home Sweet Home Alone,” which is the sixth film within the “Home Alone” collection. Chris has guest-starred on quite a few TV collection, together with “Friends” (2001), “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2011), “Glee” (2014), “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (2015), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2017; 2020), “The Goldbergs” (2019–2020), and “Will & Grace” (2019–2020).

Personal Life

Chris is married with two kids, and his spouse is reportedly a former actress.

Award Nominations

Parnell has earned 5 Behind the Voice Actors Award nominations. In 2013, “Archer” obtained a nomination for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical, and “Hotel Transylvania” earned a Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film nomination. In 2014, Chris was nominated for Best Male Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Supporting Role – Comedy/Musical for “Rick and Morty,” and “Archer” earned one other nomination for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical. In 2016, Parnell and his “Rick and Morty” castmates obtained a nomination for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series.

Real Estate

In 2013, Chris paid $1.7 million for a house within the Silver Lake space of Los Angeles. He put the house available on the market in October 2020 for $2.7 million. In July 2020, Parnell bought a 2,848 sq. foot Silver Lake house for $3.375 million, greater than $400,000 over the four-bedroom, three-bathroom house’s asking value.