Ed O’Neill Net Worth

Net Worth:	$65 Million
Date of Birth:	April 12, 1946 (78 years old)
Gender:	Male
Height:	6 ft (1.854 m)
Profession:	American football player, Actor, Teacher
Nationality:	United State Of America

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What is Ed O’Neill’s Net Worth?

Ed O’Neill is an American comedian, actor, and teacher who has a net worth of $65 million. His acting credits in films and on television, particularly on “Married with Children” and “Modern Family,” have contributed significantly to his net worth. In particular, his voice work for the drug Zyrtec earned him a sizable salary.

Early Life

On April 12, 1946, Edward Leonard O’Neill was born in Youngstown, Ohio. His father worked as a truck driver and steel mill employee, while his mother was a homemaker and social worker.

Before moving to Worthington High School and enrolling at Ohio University on a football scholarship, he completed his high school education at Ursuline. He transferred to Youngstown State University after his sophomore year of college, where he played defensive line for the football team.

O’Neill was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team in 1969, but he was released after failing to make it out of training camp. After his failed attempt to become a professional football player in the NFL, O’Neill went back to Youngstown State University and enrolled in the theater program there.

After graduating, he spent a short period filling in as a social studies teacher at Ursuline High School before deciding to focus solely on acting. After struggling to find acting work or roles in Youngstown theater shows, he relocated to New York in 1977. He attended the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York while a busboy.

Career

After being released by the Steelers, O’Neill re-enrolled in Youngstown State and was among the first participants in the institution’s newly established theatrical program. He appeared in the Broadway production of Knockout in 1979 as a boxer alongside Danny Aiello.

He was spotted by director William Friedkin there, and he subsequently obtained his first acting as a police detective in Cruising, starring Al Pacino. O’Neill and Jeff Kinsland starred in a 1985 Red Lobster advertisement.

In The Equalizer, he makes a fleeting cameo. He was chosen to play NYPD investigator Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the 1986 television pilot Popeye Doyle. The French Connection, a movie, was where the character first made its appearance (played by Gene Hackman).

Network television broadcast the two-hour movie/pilot that was produced for television. Despite favorable reviews for O’Neill’s performance and high ratings for the pilot, the show was not picked up for further production.

While portraying Lennie in a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Hartford Theater in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1986, he caught the eye of a casting director from the Fox television network, who requested that he try out for the part of Al Bundy.

Fox premiered Married… with Children as the first program on April 5, 1987, and it ran for 11 seasons before ending on June 9, 1997. O’Neill played Sgt. Joe Friday in Dick Wolf’s 2003 adaptation of Jack Webb’s legendary TV crime series Dragnet. Dick Wolf is the originator of the Law & Order franchise.

In the second season, ABC decided to cancel the show. When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, O’Neill played “Al the Shoesalesman” in a commercial supporting him. O’Neill and David Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married… with Children) collaborated on two episodes of Faustino’s television series Starving in January 2009.

When the Married… with Children cast was recognized at the 7th Annual TV Land Awards ceremony in 2009, O’Neill once more attended with the whole ensemble. O’Neill starred as Jay Pritchett in the ABC comedy Modern Family from 2009 until 2020. For this part, he had three nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards in 2011–2012, and 2013–and he won the award in 2020.

For the over-the-counter version of Zyrtec and Walmart’s store-branded mobile phone service Straight Talk, O’Neill has provided voice-overs in TV commercials since 2012. O’Neill played Hank the Octopus in the Pixar animated movie Finding Dory, which came out in 2016. O’Neill claims that he first had no idea that he was in the movie as the lead character.

He started to believe Hank was a significant character in the movie as his voice recording sessions went on and most of his interactions turned out to be with Dory.

Personal Life

O’Neill is wed to Catherine Rusoff, an actress. They are parents to two girls. His Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt was awarded to him in December 2007. His friend, the author/director John Milius, introduced him to the sport, which he has been engaging in for more than 20 years.

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