Fred Armisen Net Worth 2024

What is Fred Armisen’s Net Worth and Salary?

Fred Armisen is an American comedian, actor, musician, author, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Fred Armisen is greatest identified for his work as a forged member of the NBC sketch comedy present “Saturday Night Live” (2002–2013) and the IFC collection “Portlandia” (2011–2018). He co-created “Portlandia” in addition to IFC’s “Documentary Now!” (2015–current) and HBO’s “Los Espookys” (2019–current), and he has served as a author and government producer on all three exhibits.

Fred has greater than 160 performing credit to his title, together with the movies “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” (2004), “The Rocker” (2008), and “Staten Island Summer” (2015) and the TV collection “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (2013–2018), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2016–2020), “Forever” (2018), and “Moonbase 8” (2020–current). Armisen has lent his voice to quite a few movie and tv initiatives, reminiscent of “The Smurfs” (2011), “The Lego Ninjago Movie” (2017), “Crank Yankers” (2003–2007), “The Looney Tunes Show” (2011–2014), “Big Mouth” (2017–current), and “Final Space” (2018–current).

Fred based the web site ThunderAnt.com, which options comedy sketches created along with his “Portlandia” co-creator/co-star Carrie Brownstein, and he turned the bandleader for The 8G Band, the home band for “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” in 2014. Armisen launched a number of albums with the Chicago-based punk band Trenchmouth, together with “Inside the Future” (1993) and “Volumes, Amplifiers, Equalizers” (1995), and he performed background drums for Blue Man Group within the ’90s. In 2018, Fred launched the album “Standup for Drummers,” which earned him a Grammy nomination, and in 2015, “Smithsonian” journal honored him with the American Ingenuity Award for Performing Arts.

Early Life

Fred Armisen was born Fereydun Robert Armisen on December 4, 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When Fred was a child, his family moved to New York, and so they later lived in Brazil. His mom, Hildegardt Mirabal Level (a schoolteacher), was born in Venezuela, and his father, Fereydun Herbert Armisen (an IBM worker), was born in Germany. Armisen grew up in Valley Stream, New York, the place future “Saturday Night Live” star Jim Breuer was considered one of his highschool classmates. Fred attended Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, however he dropped out to pursue a profession as a rock drummer.

Career

Armisen performed drums in a band along with his highschool mates in 1984, and he moved to Chicago in 1988 to affix the band Trenchmouth. The band broke up in 1996, and Fred later performed drums on tracks by Wandering Lucy, Les Savy Fav, and Matthew Sweet. Armisen made his performing debut within the 1998 brief movie “Guide to Music and South by Southwest,” which he additionally wrote and directed, and in 2002, he joined the forged of “Saturday Night Live.” During his 11 years on the present, he impersonated Barack Obama and Prince and was identified for characters reminiscent of Fericito, Nooni Schoener, and Ian Rubbish. Fred has made quite a few appearances on “SNL” since he left, and he hosted the present in May 2016. While starring on “SNL,” he appeared in a number of movies, together with “Melvin Goes to Dinner” (2003), “Eurotrip” (2004), “Deck the Halls” (2006), “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny” (2006), “Baby Mama” (2008), “Confessions of a Shopaholic” (2009), “Cop Out” (2010) and “Easy A” (2010).

Armisen guest-starred on “30 Rock” (2007; 2012), “The Sarah Silverman Program” (2008), “Parks and Recreation” (2009), “Up All Night” (2012), and “Kroll Show” (2013), and from 2011 to 2018, he starred on the sketch comedy collection “Portlandia,” which aired 77 episodes over eight seasons. In 2014, Fred appeared within the documentary ” Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90),” guest-starred on “Broad City,” “House of Lies,” and “Modern Family,” and voiced Gustavo Calderon on six episodes of “Archer.” In 2015, he started writing, producing, and starring on the mockumentary collection “Documentary Now!” along with his former “SNL” castmates Seth Meyers and Bill Hader. That yr he additionally hosted the thirtieth Independent Spirit Awards and appeared within the HBO film “7 Days in Hell,” the characteristic movies “Addicted to Fresno” and “Staten Island Summer,” and the documentary “The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead.”

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From 2016 to 2020, Armisen portrayed suspected assassin Robert Durst on 5 episodes of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and in 2017, he started voicing Elliot Birch on one other Netflix collection, “Big Mouth.” In 2018, Fred co-starred with “SNL” alum Maya Rudolph on the Amazon Prime Video collection “Forever,” and in 2019, he started starring on, writing, and producing the primarily Spanish-language HBO collection “Los Espookys.” In 2020, Armisen joined the forged of the Showtime collection “Moonbase 8,” starring as Dr. Michael “Skip” Henai alongside John C. Reilly and Tim Heidecker; Fred can also be  a author and producer on the present. In latest years, he has appeared within the movies “The Little Hours” (2017), “Battle of the Sexes” (2017), “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” (2019), and “All Together Now” (2020) and the tv collection “The Last Man on Earth” (2017–2018), “Superstore” (2019), “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2020), “Mapleworth Murders” (2020), and “Schmigadoon!” (2021).

Personal Life

Fred married singer-songwriter Sally Timms in 1998, and after they divorced in 2004, he started a relationship with actress Elisabeth Moss. They met when Moss appeared in an October 2008 episode of “Saturday Night Live” hosted by her “Mad Men” co-star Jon Hamm, and so they turned engaged three months later. Armisen and Moss married on October 25, 2009, and Elisabeth filed for divorce in September 2010. The divorce was finalized in May 2011, and Fred started relationship actress Natasha Lyonne in 2014. Lyonne directed Armisen within the 2017 brief movie “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity,” and she or he has guest-starred on “Documentary Now!” and “Portlandia.” Fred enjoys enjoying the online game “Red Dead Redemption,” and after he acknowledged that he was “superb” on the sport on “Larry King Now,” Rockstar Games forged him in “Red Dead Redemption 2.”

Awards and Nominations

Armisen has been nominated for 14 Primetime Emmys: Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (2014), and Outstanding Variety Sketch Series (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) for “Portlandia,” Outstanding Variety Sketch Series (2016, 2017, and 2019) for Documentary Now!,” Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special (2015) for “Saturday Night Live: fortieth Anniversary Special,” and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (2016) for “Saturday Night Live.”  Fred earned a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for “Standup for Drummers” in 2019, and he gained a Peabody Award for “Portlandia” in 2011. He has obtained seven Writers Guild of America nominations, successful Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) – Series for “Portlandia” in 2013 and Comedy/Variety Sketch Series for “Saturday Night Live” in 2017.

Armisen and his “The Looney Tunes Show” co-stars had been nominated for 3 “Behind the Voice Actors Awards,” Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series in 2012 and Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical in 2013 and 2014. “Portlandia” earned Fred an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination for Best Male Performance in a Fiction Program in 2015 and Best Male Performance in a Variety Program in 2018, and he obtained a Webby Award nomination for Video – Best Individual Performance for “The Clash: The Last Gang in Town” in 2014.

Real Estate

In January 2014, Armisen paid $763,000 for a 1,456 sq. foot house within the Silver Lake space of Los Angeles. He put this three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in the marketplace for $949,000 in March 2016, finally fetching $987,000 a month later. The similar month of the sale, Fred paid $2.03 million for a 3,491 sq. foot house in close by Los Feliz. He listed this house on the market in October 2022 for $3.495 million. After dropping the value to $3.295 million a month later, the house lastly went underneath contract in December 2022. Not losing any time, in December 2022 Fred additionally plunked down $4.3 million for a Nineteen Twenties English Tudor type house in Los Feliz.