Thomas Lennon Net Worth 2024

What Is Thomas Lennon’s Net Worth?

Thomas Lennon is an American actor, comedian, author, director, and producer who has a net worth of $6 million. Lennon is finest identified for starring as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on Comedy Central’s “Reno 911!” (2003–current), which he additionally co-created, government produced, wrote, and directed. He co-created the sketch comedy collection “The State” (1993–1995) and “Viva Variety” (1997), and he wrote, directed, and produced the 2013 horror comedy movie “Hell Baby” along with his “Reno 911!” co-creator/co-star Robert Ben Garant. The duo additionally co-wrote the movies “Taxi” (2004), “Herbie: Fully Loaded” (2005), “The Pacifier” (2005), “Night on the Museum” (2006), “Let’s Go to Prison” (2006), “Balls of Fury” (2007), “Reno 911!: Miami” (2007), and “Night on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (2009), and so they launched the e book “Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars on the Box Office and You Can Too!” in 2011.

Thomas produced “Viva Variety” and “Reno 911! Miami” in addition to the tv collection “@midnight” (2013–2017) and “Bajillion Dollar Propertie$” (2016–2019) and the Paramount+ particular “Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon” (2021). As an actor, Lennon has appeared in additional than 170 initiatives, together with the movies “The Ten” (2007), “Hancock” (2008), “17 Again” (2009), “I Love You, Man” (2009), and ” A Futile and Stupid Gesture” (2018) and the TV collection “Sean Saves the World” (2013–2014), “The Odd Couple” (2015–2017), “Another Period” (2015–2016), “Santa Clarita Diet” (2017–2019), “Lethal Weapon” (2017–2019), and “Supergirl” (2020). He has additionally lent his voice to the animated movies “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” (2014), “Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast” (2014), “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders” (2016), and “Batman vs. Two-Face” (2017) and the tv reveals “Planet Sheen” (2010–2013), “Bob’s Burgers” (2012–2018), “Dawn of the Croods” (2015–2016), “Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures” (2016–2017), “Legend of the Three Caballeros” (2018), “Where’s Waldo?” (2019), and “Jellystone!” (2021). Thomas is the creator of the “Ronan Boyle” youngsters’s fantasy collection, which incorporates the books “Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles” (2019), “Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death” (2020), and “Ronan Boyle into the Strangeplace” (2021).

Early Life

Thomas Lennon was born Thomas Patrick Lennon on August 9, 1970, in Oak Park, Illinois. He grew up with mom Kathleen, father Timothy, and sister Meggan. Meggan additionally went into the leisure enterprise, enjoying Maya Burroughs within the 2011 movie “Another Earth,” writing the 2002 tv documentary “Reflections from Ground Zero,” and dealing as a subject producer on the 2009 documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama.” Thomas attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, graduating in 1988, and at age 16, he met Kerri Kenney at a Northwestern University theatre camp. The two would go on to co-create and co-star on “The State” and “Reno 911!,” and so they each attended New York University and had been within the comedy troupe The New Group. Lennon initially enrolled at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as a drama pupil, however he later switched to the college’s movie college.

Career

The New Group modified its title to The State and carried out at NYC golf equipment and theaters. In 1992, Thomas starred within the quick movie “Aisle Six,” which was written and directed by The State’s David Wain, and the troupe’s members labored on the MTV sketch comedy present “You Wrote It, You Watch It.” From 1993 to 1995, Thomas starred on and wrote for MTV’s “The State” alongside Kerri Kenney, Robert Ben Garant, Michael Ian Black, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter, and David Wain. The collection aired 28 episodes over 4 seasons, and Lennon, Garant, and Black created Comedy Central’s “Viva Variety” in 1997. Thomas performed Meredith Laupin on the present, and he wrote and produced it. In the ’90s, he additionally appeared within the quick movie “A Friend of Dorothy” (1994) and the function movie “Row Your Boat” (1998), voiced a Documentarian in “Drop Dead Gorgeous” (1999), and guest-starred in two episodes of “Friends” (1999) as Joey Tribbiani’s “an identical hand twin.”

In 2003, Lennon appeared in “Le Divorce,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” and “A Guy Thing,” and he co-created the improvised mockumentary-style collection “Reno 911!” with Kenney and Garant. The present aired on Comedy Central till 2009, and it was revived by the streaming service Quibi in 2020. “Reno 911!” led to the 2007 movie “Reno 911!: Miami” and the 2021 particular “Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon,” and Lennon’s Lieutenant Jim Dangle has been a well-liked Halloween costume for practically 20 years. Thomas appeared within the movies “Heights” (2004), “Conversations with Other Women” (2005), “Herbie: Fully Loaded” (2005), and “Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas” (2006), and he voiced Eddie The Shipboard Computer in 2005’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” He performed Karl Wolfschtagg in 2007’s “Balls of Fury,” and in 2009, he portrayed Orville Wright in “Night on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” and co-starred with Matthew Perry and Zac Efron in “17 Again” and with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel in “I Love You, Man.” In 2011, Lennon appeared within the movies “Cedar Rapids,” “Bad Teacher,” “What’s Your Number?,” and “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,” adopted by “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” and “The Dark Knight Rises” in 2012.

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In 2013, Lennon and Garant performed a pair of monks/exorcists in “Hell Baby” alongside Rob Corddry, Leslie Bibb, and Keegan-Michael Key, and Thomas appeared in “Rapture-Palooza” and “We’re the Millers” and started starring as Max Thompson on NBC’s “Sean Saves the World.” From 2015 to 2017, he performed Felix Unger to Matthew Perry’s Oscar Madison on the CBS reboot of “The Odd Couple,” and round this time, Lennon appeared within the movies “Knight of Cups” (2015), “Monster Trucks” (2016), and “Pottersville” (2017). From 2017 to 2019, he had recurring roles as Principal Novak on Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet” and Leo Getz on Fox’s “Lethal Weapon,” and he appeared within the movies “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” “The 15:17 to Paris,” “Half Magic,” “Dog Days,” and “Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich” in 2018. In 2020, Thomas performed Mr. Mxyzpltk in 4 episodes of The CW’s “Supergirl,” and he appeared within the movie “Valley Girl” and the documentary “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics.” In 2021, he performed Dr. Whomever within the crime drama “Cherry” and made an look on the HBO Max particular “Friends: The Reunion.” Lennon has additionally guest-starred on quite a few tv collection, together with “Childrens Hospital” (2011), “New Girl” (2012), “How I Met Your Mother” (2012), “The Goldbergs” (2014), “Modern Family” (2019), and “Veep” (2019).

Personal Life

Thomas married actress Jenny Robertson on April 27, 2002, and so they welcomed son Oliver in 2009. The family has a house in Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, and in July 2021, Lennon placed on his Jim Dangle costume and served as a visitor cashier at an area Walmart to lift funds for the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Thomas requested every buyer in the event that they want to make a donation with their buy, and he and Walmart matched each donation. A fan of Morrissey and The Smiths, Lennon often performs guitar with the tribute band Sweet and Tender Hooligans. He is an effective good friend of “Weird Al” Yankovic and spoke at Yankovic’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, sharing the story of their first assembly (at a Staples in 2005): “Another man was pondering the printer toner wall with me, a person with a magnetic vitality and hair like one thing out of the film ‘The Wiz.’ I acknowledged him, I immediately freaked out and I attempted to behave cool. I stated, ‘Excuse me, are you Weird Al Yankovic?’ He replied, ‘Yes, are you Lieutenant Dangle?’ I stated, ‘I’m. Should we simply comply with be associates for all times?’ And Al stated, ‘Okay.'”

Award Nominations

Lennon has obtained two Primetime Emmy nominations for “Reno 911!,” Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in 2020 and Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series in 2021. The collection additionally earned him a Critics Choice Super Award nomination for Best Short Form Series in 2021. He obtained a CableACE Award nomination for Comedy Series for “The State” in 1995, and Thomas and his “I Love You, Man” co-star Paul Rudd shared an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Kiss in 2009.

Real Estate

In 2009, Thomas and Jenny paid $2.175 million for a 3,051 sq. foot house within the Hancock Park space of Los Angeles. The couple bought the four-bedroom, three-bathroom house from “NewsRadio” and “ER” star Maura Tierney.