Taran Killam Net Worth 2024

What Is Taran Killam’s Net Worth and Salary?

Taran Killam is an American actor, comedian, author, director, and producer who has a net worth of $25 million. That is a mixed net worth along with his spouse since 2012, actress Cobie Smothers.

Taran Killam is finest identified for being a solid member on the NBC sketch comedy collection “Saturday Night Live” (2010–2016) and starring as Will Cooper on ABC’s “Single Parents” (2018–2020). He additionally performed King George III in “Hamilton” on Broadway in 2017. Taran has greater than 70 performing credit to his identify, together with the movies “Just Married” (2003), “My Best Friend’s Girl” (2008), “The Heat” (2013), “12 Years a Slave” (2013), and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2014) and the tv collection “The Amanda Show” (2000–2002), “Undressed” (2001), “MADtv” (2001–2002), “How I Met Your Mother” (2006–2014), “Wild ‘n Out” (2006–2007), “Scrubs” (2009), “Angie Tribeca” (2018), “Arrested Development” (2019), and “Impeachment: American Crime Story” (2021). He wrote, directed, and produced the 2017 movie “Killing Gunther,” and he wrote and produced 2016’s “Brother Nature.” Killam has lent his voice to quite a few animated initiatives, equivalent to “Underdogs” (2015), “The Awesomes” (2013–2015), “Nature Cat” (2015–current), “We Bare Bears” (2018), “The Simpsons” (2020), “Vampirina” (2020), and “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” (2021).

Early Life

Taran Killam was born Taran Hourie Killam on April 1, 1982, in Culver City, California. Taran’s mom is a singer-songwriter who toured with The Charlie Daniels Band, and his father was a member of the City Garage Theatre Group. Killam’s great-aunt was actress Rosemarie Stack, who was married to actor/”Unsolved Mysteries” host Robert Stack. Taran grew up in Big Bear Lake, California, and he has a brother named Taylor. He studied on the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, then he enrolled at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, the place he met future “Saturday Night Live” castmate Mikey Day. While at UCLA, Taran studied musical theatre and was concerned with the college’s theatre competition. He left college after he was solid on “MADtv.”

Career

Killam made his performing debut as a toddler within the 1994 movie “Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult,” and in 1995, he appeared in two episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries.” He guest-starred on “The Jersey” (2000), “Judging Amy” (2000), “Touched by an Angel” (2000), and “Roswell” (2001), and from 2000 to 2002, he was featured on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy collection “The Amanda Show.” In 2001, Taran performed Blake on the MTV anthology collection “Undressed,” and from 2001 to 2002, he was a featured participant on the Fox sketch comedy present “MADtv.” At age 19, he was the youngest particular person to hitch the present’s solid, and Killam and Jeff Richards are the one two individuals who have been solid members on each “MADtv” and “Saturday Night Live.” Taran appeared within the movies “Big Fat Liar” (2002) and “Just Married” (2003) and the TV film “Stuck within the Suburbs” (2004), and he guest-starred on “Drake & Josh” (2004), “Boston Public” (2004), “Still Standing” (2004), “Jake in Progress” (2005), and “Girlfriends” (2006). He had a recurring function as Gary Blauman on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” from 2006 and 2014, and from 2006 to 2007, he was a solid member on MTV’s “Wild ‘n Out.”

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In 2007, Killam was a guide author and solid member on MTV’s “Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz” alongside Mikey Day, Eliza Coupe, and Katt Williams, and he performed a pirate in “Epic Movie.” In 2008, he co-starred with Dane Cook, Kate Hudson,  and Jason Biggs in “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and the next yr, he portrayed Matthew McConaughey within the brief movie “Three Matthew McConaugheys and a Baby,” had a recurring function as Jimmy on “Scrubs,” and guest-starred on “Scrubs: Interns.” From 2010 to 2016, he was a solid member on “Saturday Night Live,” the place he performed characters equivalent to Jebidiah Atkinson and Jonathan Cavanaugh-san and did impersonations of Eminem, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Paul Ryan, Liam Neeson, and plenty of others. Taran appeared in 128 episodes of the present. In 2013, he co-starred with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in “The Heat,” had a cameo in “Grown Ups 2,” and performed Abram Hamilton within the Academy Award-winning movie “12 Years a Slave.” From 2013 to 2019, Killam appeared in seven episodes of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History,” portraying William Clark, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Bobby Fischer, Lord Gordon Gordon, Jack Parsons, D.B. Cooper, and John Alfred Preston.

Taran appeared within the movies “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2014), “Ted 2” (2015), “Casual Encounters” (2016), “Brother Nature” (2016), “All Nighter” (2017), “Killing Gunther” (2017), and “Night School” (2018), and he guest-starred on “Sesame Street” (2014), “New Girl” (2016), “A.P. Bio” (2018), “Documentary Now!” (2019), and “Mr. Mayor” (2021). From 2018 to 2020, he starred as Will Cooper on “Single Parents,” which aired 45 episodes over two seasons, and he had recurring roles as Pierre Cardin on “Angie Tribeca” (2018) and Young George Bluth, Sr. on “Arrested Development” (2019). In 2021, Killam portrayed Steve Jones, the husband of Paula Jones, on the FX anthology collection “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” which earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Miniseries or Television Film. He additionally created and co-wrote the 2013 comedian ebook miniseries “The Illegitimates,” which is about 5 illegitimate kids of a James Bond-like undercover agent.

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Personal Life

Taran grew to become engaged to “How I Met Your Mother” star Cobie Smulders in early 2009, they usually wed on September 8, 2012. The couple has two daughters, Shaelyn (born May 2009) and Janita (born January 2015). Killam is a Los Angeles Rams fan, and through a 2016 look on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” he wore a Rams-themed, light-up Christmas sweater.

Awards and Nominations

In 2017, Killam gained the Visionary Filmmaker Award on the San Diego International Film Festival. He earned a Gold Derby Award nomination for Breakthrough Performer of the Year for “Saturday Night Live” in 2012, and he shared nominations for Ensemble Cast (2014) and Ensemble of the Decade (2020) along with his “12 Years a Slave” co-stars. Taran obtained an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination for Best Male Performance in a Fiction Program for “SNL” in 2014, and the “12 Years a Slave” solid earned a Best Acting Ensemble nomination on the 2013 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards.

Real Estate

In 2009 Cobie and Taran paid $990,000 for a three-unit revenue property in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. In 2017 they bought this property to comedian Demitri Martin for $1.4 million. In 2012 Cobie and Taran paid $2 million for a penthouse rental in New York City.

In 2017 Cobie and Taran paid $5.6 million for a house in LA’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood. They proceeded to carry out a virtually whole renovation over a yr.