Dana Elaine Owens or known as Queen Latifah is a singer, rapper, actress, songwriter, model and comedian. Her contribution to music and movie has given her numerous awards, including a Golden Globe, a couple of Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards and a Grammy Award. All Hail the Queen. Her debut album was launched to the market in late 1980s. In the acting industry, she gained an international recognition after she portrayed Mama Morton in an Oscar-winning musical, Chicago. Queen Latifah net worth is estimated at $50 million.
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah was born in New Jersey. Her father, Lancelot Owens, worked at the police department while her mother, Rita Owens was a teacher in a local high school. When she was a kid, Latifah was a curious kid and she used to read books for hours. She found “Latifah” when reading a book of Islamic names. At the time, she was just 8 years old. In Arabian, Latifah means “very kind” and it can be alternatively interpreted as “delicate”. Her singing skill developed at the age of 7. The skill later boosted her net worth to tens of millions. She also starred numerous plays in high school, including The Wiz. [click to continue…]
Miranda Cosgrove net worth is estimated at $7 million. The source of her wealth is from film, television, and music. The 20-year old girl is not only an actress but also a good songwriter and singer. Her net worth is expected to rise in 2013 for she is now busy with her upcoming flicks like “How Could You Do This To Me”, “Despicable Me 2” and “Liars”. The three movies in 2013 will enable her to collect more money in her bank account. As a girl, Miranda has a pretty and fresh face. She has been in the entertainment industry since she was 3 years old. She has appeared at commercial ads for McDonald’s and Mello Yello when she was only 7 years old.
Miranda Cosgrove
After performing in some commercials, the young Miranda began to go from one audition to others for a TV roles and theaters. Some of her famous TV shows which gave a big impact on Miranda Cosgrove net worth include “7 Secrets with Miranda Cosgrove”, “Just Jordan”, “Smallville”, “The Naked Brothers Band”, “Big Time Rush”, and “Drake & Josh”. Probably Smallville is her most smashing hit when she played as the 5 year old Lana Lang. Some of her successful movies include “The Wild Stallion”, “Keeping Up with the Steins”, and “Mine and Ours”.
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Here comes the information about Matt Groening net worth that is estimated to be around 500 million dollars. He is an American animator and he is also the one who created the popular cartoon The Simpsons. His main source of money comes from his succeeds in creating The Simpsons character that is a satire and doesn’t always put moral authorities as the main foundation on how to act. Matt Groening also created another successful TV series “Futurama” that has succeeded to show up for 101 episodes in 6 seasons.
Matt Groening
Matt Groening has a hard life before he became famous with The Simpson. He wrote an animation book called “Life in Hell” that became a success book and that attracted the attention of James L. Brook, a writer and producer. It was then The Simpsons was created where the name of each character in the series was adapted from his own family name, which has become a huge success since 1989 to the present day, The Simpson is still aired and seems like it will still hold up there for many years ahead. Matt Groening has received numerous awards for his work in The Simpsons and Futurama. He won 12 Primetime Emmy Award where 10 of the awards go for The Simpsons and 2 of them, the British Comedy Award and also National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award go for Futurama.
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Lionel messi is known as one of the most famous football players in the world. His rival is Christian Ronaldo. Actually, Christian Ronaldo is not his rival; those two people are commonly compared to know who is better. Well, Lionel Andres Messi is a professional football player who originally comes from Argentina. There are so many awards which are given to him. However, those awards, such as Balloon d’Or and FIFA Player of the Year awards, do not make him arrogant and have bad personality. Since he became a professional in this field, his net worth has also been increasing. In 2013, Lionel Messi net worth is estimated about $110 million. He is considered as the best football player in the world with the highest salary.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Andre’s Messi was born in Rosario Argentina. His father is Jorge Horace and her mother is Celia Maria Messi. His parents are only low class workers. When he was a child, the people ignored his ability in playing football since he was diagnosed to suffer from certain serious illness. However, he tried to show his ability and later on when he played in a competition, a local club hired him to join. Then, his career started from here.
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Ryan Sheckler is a famous skateboard player from United States Of America. In 2013, Ryan Sheckler net worth exceeds the number of 16 million US dollar. His money mostly comes from skateboard competition that he attended and from endorsement of several famous brand like Volcom, Red Bull, Oakley, Panasonic, Plan B Skateboards, and many more.
Ryan Sheckler
Ryan Sheckler was born in Southern California on December 30, 1989. He showed an interest in skateboard when he was only eighteen months. Little Ryan was interested in his father’s skateboard and played with it. After several years later, he spent a lot of hours in mastering skateboard tricks in the little skateboard park that his father built for him. His professional career started in 1997. At that time, Ryan Sheckler joined in his very first competition entitled California Amateur Skateboarding League. In this championship he won several titles and made an endorsement contract with Arnette Eyewear. Then in 2003 he took part in the World Cup Championship of Skateboarding, Slam City Jam, Gravity Games, and Vans Triple Crown. His appearance in these championships made him a professional skateboard player. His career was not only in skateboard. From 2001 until 2010 he had performed in several movies such as MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001), Tooth Fairy (2010), Grind (2003), and Street Dream (2009). He also had his own reality show entitled The Life Of Ryan that was aired in MTV for three seasons from 2007 to 2008. [click to continue…]
Seth Green is a popular actor from the United States of America. He is also known as a director, film producer, and a screenwriter. Seth Green net worth is estimated at 15 million dollars. Although Seth is a multitalented celebrity, public know him as a professional actor when he played a role as Dictor Evil’s son named Scott in the Austin Powers series.
Seth Green
Seth Green was born on February 8, 1974. His mother was an art director and she was the person who influenced Seth to take a career in film industry. His first step in film industry was when he took part in a movie entitled A Billion For Boris in 1984. After his first movie, Seth Green was widely known as an actor. He continued his career as an actor throughout the 80s to the 90s. He also performed in several famous TV series like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Birds of Paradise. Seth Green was not only talented in acting, he once became a voice artist for the success TV cartoon in America, Family Guy. His career as a voice artist for TV cartoon series gave him a chance to be the voice artist for several video games like Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, SSV Normandy, and Normandy SR2. He continued to expand his career by producing a TV series entitled Robot Chicken. Seth Green married to Clare Grant, an actress on May 1, 2010. This couple worked together in several projects like Robot Chicken, Warren The Ape, and many more. [click to continue…]
Robert Anthony Plant or professionally known as Robert Plant is an English musician, songwriter, singer and businessman. People know him as the lead singer of the legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin. His career has been running for more than 40 years. During the time, he has grabbed his popularity and of course, wealth. Music analysts and critics said that Robert is one of his kinds, and it is hard for other singers to match his performance and voice character. Robert Plant net worth is currently estimated at 120 million dollars that makes him one of the richest vocalists in the world.
Robert Plant
Robert Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, England. His father, Robert C. was a civil engineer. His passion on music and singing has grown since he was still at his early age. In 1968, he was found by Jimmy Page, the guitarist of Led Zeppelin who was searching for a vocalist for his new band. Both of them shared the same passion on music and started to write songs together. The debut album of the band was released in 1969 and successfully gained positive critics. Plant’s ability in writing lyrics was always able to make his fans amazed. His stage act was also different from other vocalists and soon he used it as his trademark.
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Celebrities in the United States have become an example which reflects the richest people in the world. Actually, there are a lot of celebrities which we can discuss, but we will only talk about Sharon Osbourne. Well, Sharon Osborne is a music manager and promoter who is already well known worldwide. If we are talking about her net worth, she has got an amazing amount of money in her bank account. Sharon Osbourne net worth is around $140 millions.
Sharon Osbourne
Before talking further about her net worth, we will discuss a little bit about her life. Actually, Sharon Osborne was born as Sharon levy. She is the daughter of a music promoter too. Her father is a good promoter. The name Osborne is taken from her husband, ozzy Osbourne, who was once a member of the legendary band Black Sabbath. Sharon levy met her husband when her father was managing the Black Sabbath. Well, Sharon also took the part in managing Black Sabbath after Ozzy had left the band. Then, those two people started to date. In 1997, she arranged the Ozzfest which was successful and got a great response from the public. Year by year the price of the ticket of Ozzfest was getting higher and in 2007, the ticket price reached $150. [click to continue…]
America is a dreamed country for businesspersons. We will meet a lot of people who are engaged in this field. One of the successful persons who had dedicated himself in the entertainment business is Ted Turner. He is not an actor or musician. He is a pure businessman who provides the public with the entertainment media. Have you ever heard about him before? Well, he is one of the greatest businessmen in America. He gets his net worth from the cable television, such as CNN, WTBS, and TBS. Ted Turner net worth is estimated at $2 Billion.
Ted Turner
For further information, Ted Turner is not only an American businessman but also a media mogul and philanthropist. He was born as Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III. He has been added on the richest people list by FORBES. In the past, He worked for Turner Advertising which belonged to his father. His father committed suicide in 1963. Some years later, Ted Turner built Cable News Network (CNN) and became the founder of the great company. It is considered as the first 24-hour cable news channel. This CNN TV was established in 1980. Besides, as I stated above, he also built other television stations, such as WTBS and TBS. [click to continue…]
Some people may wonder how much is Matt Stone net worth. The answer will be around 300 million dollars. Most of his income comes from his TV show creation, the South Park. This show has been aired for more than 15 years and this has become his major source of income although during the years he also produced lots of other movies as well, but the South Park is the one that has brought up his name along with his partner Trey Parker.
Matt Stone & Trey Parker
His journey on creating movies started up with his creation of low budget film “Cannibal! The Musical” where Matt Stone co produced the movie and played as the actor as well, then after that he started to create a short animation film called “Jesus Vs Santa” which received major hit and it led him to the creation of South Park that has been aired for over a decade and still there is no sign that it will slow down. Matt Stone has received quite a lot of awards for his work, starting from Grammy Awards in the year 2011, 3 Tony Awards for his theater production The Book of Mormon and also four Emmy Awards for his other works.
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