John Leguizamo Net Worth 2024

What is John Leguizamo’s net worth?

John Leguizamo is a Colombian-American actor, standup comedian, producer, screenwriter, playwright, and rapper who has a net worth of $25 million. John Leguizamo accrued his net worth by way of appearing on stage, display screen, and tv, in addition to voice appearing for a lot of animated sequence.

Early Life

John Alberto Leguizamo was born on July 22, 1964, in Bogotá, Colombia. When he was 4, his family moved to New York City. He is the son of Alberto and Luz Leguizamo. He grew up in Queens. While Leguizamo was in highschool at Murry Bergtraum High School, he wrote jokes and examined them out on different college students. Not surprisingly, he was voted “Most Talkative” throughout his senior 12 months. Leguizamo enrolled as a theatre main at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He dropped out earlier than commencement to pursue a profession in stand-up comedy.

Career

In 1984, Leguizamo bought his begin as a stand-up comedian performing in varied nightclubs in New York City. That similar 12 months, Leguizamo landed the function of Madonna’s boyfriend within the video for her early hit “Borderline.” In 1986, he made his appearing debut on tv with a small half on the profitable present “Miami Vice.” He had quite a lot of roles in tv and movie all through the remainder of the Eighties and into the early Nineties. One of Leguizamo’s most memorable roles was within the 1993 Brian DePalma Crime Drama “Carlito’s Way.” He additionally starred in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996’s adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” as Tybalt Capulet reverse Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio. Another distinguished function of Leguizamo’s was when he starred as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in 1995’s “Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar.” He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for this function.

Leguizamo did the voice-over work for Sid the Sloth within the film “Ice Age” in addition to in it is sequels: “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” and “Ice Age: Collision Course.” He additionally starred within the 2014 movie “Chef”  as Martin the road prepare dinner. That similar 12 months he performed a drug supplier in “American Ultra.” Leguizamo additionally seems within the John Wick franchise.”

Leguizamo has additionally had quite a lot of roles on tv together with in 2008 on “Sesame Street” as Captain Vegetable and in 2010 on “The Electric Company.” In extra grownup tv fare, he has additionally appeared on “E.R.,” “Waco,” “Bloodline,” “When They See Us,” “Bojack Horseman” and sooner or later on “The Power” and “Hypno.”

In 2018, he placed on a one-man Broadway present,” Latin History for Morons,” which is accessible for viewing on Netflix.

In 2020, Leguizamo made his directorial debut with “Critical Thinking,” a film about how 5 highschool college students from Miami grew to become the primary inner-city workforce to win the U.S. National Chess Championship in 1998. The movie was slated to debut on the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, however that occasion was canceled because of the unfold of the coronavirus pandemic. Leguizamo collaborated with the movie’s screenwriter on the story that varied filmmakers have been attempting to get made for twenty years. He additionally stars within the movie as the highschool’s chess coach Mario Martinez.

Leguizamo’s memoir, “Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life,” was launched in 2006.

Personal Life

Leguizamo married actress Yelba Osorio in 1994. They divorced in 1996 after two years of marriage.

He married Justine Maurer, a costumer on “Carlito’s Way,”  in a Catholic-Jewish ceremony on June 28, 2003. They have two youngsters, daughter Allegra Sky, and son Lucas.  They dwell in Manhattan.

Leguizamo acquired the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) in 2008.

He inspired actor Romany Malco to get into appearing.

He supported Hillary Clinton within the 2016 United States Presidential election.

In 2018, Leguizamo acquired an Honorary Degree from Marymount Manhattan College

Leguizamo loves that his comedy makes individuals offended.

In 2020, Leguizamo was one of many celebrities that known as for a boycott of the Goya model of meals after its CEO publicly praised Donald Trump. He tweeted: “Goodbye Goya! You cant exploit us for revenue than be towards us latinx! #BoycottGoyaFoods.”

Real Estate

In 2008, John Leguizamo paid $5.75 million for a townhouse in downtown Manhattan’s Washington Square space. The four-story constructing that Leguizamo bought has 3,136 sq. feet and was in-built 1899.

Leguizamo additionally owns or has owned a 1,399-square-foot condominium unit in Venice Beach in Los Angeles which he bought in October 2005 for an undisclosed value, a co-op unit at 45 Gramercy Park North in Manhattan that he has owned no less than since 2004, a 2,449-square-foot home on 7.4 acres in Rosendale, New York, which the actor bought in 2003 for $750,000.

In 2011, he listed a lake home in Kingston, New York for $835,000. The house is simply exterior New York’s Catskill State Park, about 100 miles north of New York City and has 4 bedrooms and three bogs on a wooded 7.64-acre lot,  and contains a pool, screened porch, lake, mountain, and forest views in addition to a visitor home.

In 2013, he listed his four-story East Village townhouse that he purchased in 1995 for an undisclosed quantity for $3.995 million. The townhouse has 3,491 sq. feet on East seventh Street.