| Net Worth: | $25 Million |
| Salary: | $400 Thousand Per Episode |
| Date of Birth: | Aug 15, 1970 (51 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Profession: | Comedian, Actor, Television producer, Voice Actor, Screenwriter |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Antony Anderson is an American actor and writer who has a net worth of $25 million dollars. He earns almost $9 million dollars a year from his role on the popular comedy series Black-ish, which is a combination of his combined salaries for acting and producing, along with a cut of the show's back-end revenue.
Early Life
Anthony Anderson was born on August 15, 1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a family of five children. In addition to being a graduate of the Hollywood High School Performing Arts Magnet's Class of 1988 and Howard University, he grew up in Compton.
Anderson persevered despite his first attempt at stand-up comedy being a self-described “failure” (amusingly, his first gig at The Comedy Act Theater was under the stage name “Tasty Tony, the One and Only, and if there's another, he's a phony,” which, according to Anderson years later, resulted in the audience booing him off the stage before he said a single word), and eventually met an actor named Guy Despite the fact that much of Anderson's work has remained in the comedy genre since his inauspicious stage debut, he has made it plain that he does not consider himself to be a comedian in the classic sense, but rather an actor who frequently works in comedy.
Television Career
In addition to his own comedy All About the Andersons and The Bernie Mac Show, on which he had a part during the show's fifth and final season, Anderson was also well-known for his appearance in the film The Greatest Showman.
The adolescent drama Hang Time featured him in the starring role of Teddy Broadis, which was one of his most memorable roles on television. For example, he has been in several episodes of television programs such as NYPD Blue, Malcolm & Eddie, In the House, and Ally McBeal, to mention just a few.
Anderson joined the cast of the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2008. He had previously appeared in two other crime dramas, Fox's K-Ville and FX's The Shield, before joining the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Anthony landed a starring role in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, which went on to become one of the network's most popular shows.
Moreover, he serves as an Executive Producer on the program, which, as you'll see in the next section, has greatly increased his income for the series. Anderson has also appeared in two Black-ish spin-off series in his role as family patriarch Andre “Dre” Johnson, Sr.: Grown-ish, which premiered in 2018, and Mixed-ish, which premiered in 2019. Anderson has also appeared in two Black-ish spin-off series in his role as family patriarch Andre “Dre” Johnson, Sr.
As one of the most well-known television fathers on the network, Anderson has kept himself busy with a variety of other projects for the network. His television credits include appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
In 2017 as one of the celebrity guest presenters while Kimmel was on parental leave, and in 2019 he participated in both of ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials. In 2020, he returned to television as a participant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, both of which aired on the network.
In addition, he has provided voice work for a trio of video games during the course of his career. In 2006, he provided the voice of a drug dealer for the computer game Scarface: The World Is Yours, and the following year, he starred as Troy Dollar in the film Def Jam: Icon. He's also credited with providing “Monster voices” for the video game Diablo III, which was released in 2012.
Film Career
Anderson's most well-known work has been on television, but he has also been in a number of feature films as well as television shows. A year later, he (together with pal Guy Torry) co-starred in the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence feature Life, which was released in the same year as his acting debut.
In the following years, he appeared in a number of high-profile films, including Big Momma's House (in which he co-starred with Martin Lawrence), Me, Myself, and Irene (in which he co-starred with Jim Carrey), and Barbershop (in which Ice Cube appeared).
In addition, he was cast in a recurring role in two subsequent installments of the Scary Movie franchise, appearing in Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 in the character of Mahalik, respectively.
Anderson was cast in Martin Scorsese's The Departed two years after Scary Movie 4, and went on to appear in other films such as Michael Bay's Transformers, Wes Craven's Scream 4, and the long-awaited Barbershop sequel Barbershop: The Next Cut in 2016.
The popularity of Black-ish has resulted in a little slowdown in his film career; he participated in the 2017 crime thriller Small Town Crime, provided voice work for both The Star and Ferdinand, and acted in the Netflix original film Beats, which was released in 2019.
Anderson also has at least one directorial credit, for a short film produced for the Responsibility Project that aired on the television show In the House in 2009. Anderson also has a few writing credits, including a short story for the Responsibility Project.
Black-ish Salary
Anthony Anderson's compensation per episode of Black-ish is $400,000. When you combine his acting salary, producer salary, and back-end profit revenue, Anthony Anderson's salary per episode of Black-ish starts at $400,000 in the fifth season.
Over the course of 22 episodes, this equates to $8.8 million a year before taxes. That is a huge increase over the $100,000 he received every year in season one, prior to the show's syndication being secured.
Personal Life
In 1995, he tied the knot with Alvina, his college love. The pair has two children, Kyra and Nathan, the latter of whom has already launched his own acting career, having appeared in the Netflix comedy Richie Rich, which was produced by the couple.
Anderson, a Type 2 diabetic, has volunteered with a number of diabetes awareness groups over the past few years. It's not his only charitable endeavor: in 2011, he participated in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association, earning $250,000 for the organization.
Real Estate
Anthony Anderson's principal residence is in the Los Angeles, California, area of the United States. According to reports, he paid around $1.1 million for the three-bedroom, 3,451-square-foot property in 2005.
Car
When Anderson purchased a Mercedes Maybach for about $200,000 in 2016, the writer penned an article for The Hollywood Reporter about one of his major expenditures: a Mercedes Maybach.
In the post, he claims that he didn't even hesitate to pay such a high sum for a car: “The retail price of my Maybach (about $198,000) did not cause me to second guess myself. It served as a personal reward.
I've gone a long way since then. Looking back, I believe my younger self would be pleased with my older self and would praise me on my dedication and hard work in comparison.”
