Ellen Cleghorne Net Worth 2024

What is Ellen Cleghorne’s Net Worth?

Ellen Cleghorne is an American actress and comedian who has a net worth of $500 thousand. Ellen Cleghorne is finest identified for being a solid member on the TV sequence Saturday Night Live. She was the second African-American feminine to be chosen as a repertory solid member on the present. Cleghorne was a solid member on Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. She was identified for her recurring character Queen Shenequa and did impressions of Dr. Dre, Florence Griffith Joyner, Gladys Knight, Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle, Tina Turner, Woody Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, and extra. She starred in her personal tv sequence “Cleghorne!” in 1995. Cleghorne additionally starred within the motion pictures Mr. Wrong, Dear God, Rescuing Desire, Armageddon, The Million Dollar Hotel, Coyote Ugly, Little Nicky, Old School, and Grown Ups 2.

Early Life

Cleghorne was born on November 29, 1965 in New York City. She particularly grew up within the Red Hood Projects in Brooklyn. She was a really vivid little one and loved entertaining folks from a younger age. After ending highschool, she attended Hunter College, from the place she graduated within the late Nineteen Eighties.

Early Career

After ending college, Cleghorne started acting at native comedy golf equipment in New York. In 1989, she competed within the Johnnie Walker Comedy Search. For one among her items on the present, she was directed in a video by “Saturday Night Live” quick movie producer, Neal Marshad. Over the following couple of years, she continued performing in golf equipment and likewise appeared on “Def Comedy Jam,” along with touchdown minor roles within the second season of “In Living Color.”

While on “In Living Color,” Cleghorne was found by the producers of “Saturday Night Live.” She auditioned for the present and was invited to hitch the solid in 1991. She would stay on the present for 4 seasons till she determined to go away in 1995.

Saturday Night Live

During Cleghorne’s time on “SNL,” she carried out quite a lot of impressions of individuals like Dr. Dre, Anita Baker, Toni Morrison, Whoopi Goldberg, Marla Gibbs, Natalie Cole, and Mary J. Blige, amongst others. She additionally developed two recurring characters: Zoraida, who labored as an NBC web page, and Queen Shenequa, who usually would seem on the “Weekend Update” sketch. As Queen Shenequa, Clegborne usually supplied commentary on tales and matters having to do with race and often wearing conventional African garb.

Clegborne was solely the third lady of canopy to be credited on “Saturday Night Live” and solely the second to be a full-time solid member, following Yvonne Hudson and Danitra Vance. She was additionally the primary black lady to stay on the present as a full solid member for longer than a single season. Clegborne’s time on the present was historic, although it was reported that she didn’t at all times get together with all of her fellow solid members. However, different former solid members have refuted that assertion, although Clegborne has described quite a lot of challenges related to being on the present, particularly as one of many few minority solid members.

During her time on “SNL,” Cleghorne additionally made quite a lot of appearances on the Nickelodeon kids’s present, “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.” She performed the character of a bus driver who served because the love curiosity of one other bus driver.

After SNL

In 1995, Clegborne determined to go away “SNL” to star as a single mom within the present “Cleghorne!”. In the present, she performed character Ellen Carlson. The present aired for one season on The WB community and likewise starred “SNL” alumnus Garrett Morris, in addition to Sherri Shephard in her first performing position. In talking in regards to the present and why it concluded so quickly, Cleghorne has mentioned she does not suppose she was able to have her personal present as she lacked the inventive confidence to make the kinds of choices she would have appreciated to make.

Cleghorne has additionally appeared in quite a lot of movies. She had a job in “Armageddon” in 1998 after which appeared in “Coyote Ugly” and “Little Nicky” in 2000. In 2003, she had a job within the comedy movie, “Old School.” She additionally wrote quite a lot of skits that have been performed on Sirius XM Radio’s Raw Dog Comedy.

Her performing profession has continued into the 2010s. She appeared in a small position in “Grown Ups 2” in 2013. She was additionally one of many contestants on “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition” in 2015. She in the end completed the competitors in third place. The similar 12 months, she appeared within the 40^th anniversary particular of “Saturday Night Live.” She described having the ability to return to “SNL” as a “cleaning” expertise. In 2018, Cleghorne appeared because the character Shaniqua in “Second Act.”

Cleghorne determined to return to highschool within the mid-2000s, enrolling within the grasp’s after which Ph.D. program at New York University’ Tisch School of the Arts. She obtained her Ph.D. in efficiency research from NYU in 2014. She teaches at Graceland University.

While she has targeted her profession on academia, Cleghorne continues to audition and nonetheless writes comedy.

Personal Life

Cleghorne has stored her private life out of the general public eye. She has not been romantically related to anybody over time that she has been within the highlight. However, a relationship she was in within the Nineteen Eighties did end in her having a daughter in 1982. Her daughter’s identify is Akeyla. Akeyla appeared aa an additional on a number of sketches in “SNL” whereas Cleghorne was on the present from 1991 till 1995.

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