Sheryl Underwood Net Worth 2024

What Is Sheryl Underwood’s Net Worth and Salary?

Sheryl Underwood is an American comedian, tv host, actress, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Underwood gained prominence as the primary ever feminine finalist within the Miller Lite Comedy Search again in 1989. She has been a co-host on the CBS collection “The Talk” since 2011, and he or she hosted “BET’s Comicview” from 2005 to 2006. As an actress, Sheryl has appeared In the movies “I Got the Hook-Up” (1998), “Beauty Shop” (2005) and “The Bounce Back” (2016) and the tv collection “The Young and the Restless” (2012−2013), “The Odd Couple” (2016), and “The Bold and the Beautiful” (2016−2019).

Underwood additionally hosted and produced the comedy/selection collection “Holla” from 2002 to 2003, and he or she has her personal “multi-faceted strategic advertising and model growth agency,” Pack Rat Productions, Inc. She launched Sheryl Underwood Radio, which airs on greater than 580 radio associates, and the “The World According To Sheryl,” which is “the podcast of all Sheryl Underwood Radio produced content material.” She additionally hosts the “Sheryl Underwood Radio Podcast.”

Early Life

Sheryl Underwood was born Sheryl Patrice Underwood on October 28, 1963, in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born with a twin, however sadly, her twin didn’t survive. Underwood has stated that her mom lied and informed her that her father murdered her twin and that her mom as soon as stabbed her father. Sheryl has an older brother named Michael, and her older sister, Frankie, was identified with polio as a toddler. Frankie is disabled, and he or she moved in with Underwood after the dying of their mom in 1997. Sheryl helped care for Frankie throughout her childhood and has stated of that point, “I used to be turning into an grownup at 8 years previous.” Underwood attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, the place she joined the Zeta Phi Beta sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in liberal arts. She then enrolled at Governors State University, incomes grasp’s levels in mass communication and media administration. After college, Underwood enlisted within the United States Air Force, serving two years within the reserves.

Career

After making it to the finals within the 1989 Miller Lite Comedy Search, Sheryl appeared on “Def Comedy Jam” (1992), “Showtime on the Apollo” (1994), and “Make Me Laugh” (1997). In 1998, she made her large display debut within the Warren Beatty comedy “Bulworth” and performed Bad Mouth Bessie in “I Got the Hook-Up.” She reprised her position in 2019’s “I Got the Hook Up 2.” In 2002, Underwood guest-starred on The WB sitcom “Nikki” and appeared on “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,” then in 2003, she starred in her personal episode of “Comedy Central Presents” and was featured within the TV documentary “Heroes of Comedy: Women on Top.” In 2005, she performed Catfish Rita in “Beauty Shop” alongside Queen Latifah, Djimon Hounsou, Alicia Silverstone, Alfre Woodard, Sherri Shepherd, Andie MacDowell, and Kevin Bacon, and he or she appeared within the TV film “Getting Played” and the tv documentaries “Made You Look: Top 25 Moments of BET History” and “A Comic’s Climb on the USCAF.” That yr Sheryl additionally started internet hosting “BET’s Comicview,” and from 2007 to 2010, she appeared on “1st Amendment Stand Up” 4 occasions, twice as a bunch and twice as a performer. She turned a contributor on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show” in 2010, and he or she has hosted the radio reveals “Sheryl Underwood and Company” and “The Sheryl Underwood Show.”

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In 2011, Underwood started co-hosting “The Talk” with Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, and Sharon Osbourne. As of this writing, she has appeared in additional than 2,000 episodes of the present and has earned seven Daytime Emmy nominations. Since becoming a member of “The Talk,” Sheryl has additionally guest-starred on “The Millers” (2013), “Madam Secretary” (2014), “The Comeback” (2014), “Supergirl” (2016), “Happy Together” (2018), “Jane the Virgin” (2018), and “Kidding” (2020). She additionally had a recurring position as Diane on the CBS sitcom “The Odd Couple” in 2016 and as Emmy on the cleaning soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” from 2016 to 2019. Underwood competed on “Celebrity Name Game” greater than a dozen occasions between 2014 and 2017, and he or she has appeared in additional than 30 episodes of “Funny You Should Ask” since 2017.

Personal Life

In 1987, Sheryl married a chef named Michael, and on her first episode of “The Talk” in 2011, she revealed that he died by suicide three years into their marriage. In 2016, she informed “People” journal, “I made him a German chocolate cake that morning, and I stated, ‘Drop the payments within the mailbox and I’ll see you whenever you get dwelling.’ It’s probably the most painful factor on this planet as a result of he’s not coming again.” After graduating from college, Underwood was raped by an unknown assailant. She spoke concerning the traumatic expertise in a 2017 episode of “The Talk,” stating, “I bear in mind having a ‘that is it’ second once I was raped. I simply stored considering, ‘This ain’t it. I’m not going to die at present. I refuse to die at present. It’s not taking place like this.’ So the one factor I believed was: ‘What do I do to outlive?'”

Though Sheryl has typically voted Republican, she campaigned for President Barack Obama in 2012 and for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Underwood was elected International President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority in 2008, and he or she has served as a  Graduate Member at Large, National Chair of Honorary Members, and National Executive Board Chair as properly. Sheryl can be a member of the NAACP and the National Council of Negro Women and the founder the African-American Female Comedian Association. She has acquired honorary doctorates from the University of Illinois-Chicago, South Carolina State University, Benedict College (Columbia, SC), and Voorhees College (Denmark, SC).

Awards and Nominations

Between 2014 and 2020, Underwood and her “The Talk” co-hosts earned seven Daytime Emmy nominations, one for Outstanding Talk Show Host and 6 for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. They received the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host in 2017, and the earlier yr, they earned a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team. In 1994, Sheryl acquired BET’s Funniest Female Comedian on “Comic View” award, and he or she received the Platinum Mic Viewers Choice Award on the 2005 BET Comedy Awards. Underwood has additionally been honored with Johnson C. Smith University’s Arch of Triumph Award and a UNCF Masked Award.