Category:
Richest Celebrities › Actors
Net Worth:
$26 Million
Salary:
$500 Thousand Per Episode
Birthdate:
Aug 22, 1967 (57 years old)
Birthplace:
Grants Pass
Gender:
Male
Height:
6 ft (1.83 m)
Profession:
Nationality:
United States of America
Ty Burrell is an American actor and comedian who has a net worth of $26 million. Ty Burrell is most famous for playing the role of Phil Dunphy on the ABC comedy series “Modern Family.” Outside of “Modern Family,” Burrell has appeared in a number of films, including “Black Hawk Down,” “Finding Dory,” and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.”
At the peak of “Modern Family,” Jesse and his co-stars were among the highest paid actors on television. For the seasons that filmed between 2014 and 2018, Jesse’s salary per episode was $190,000. In 2018, Jesse and the other principal stars were given raises to $500,000 per episode. That worked out to around $12 million per season in the later seasons.
Ty Burrell was born Tyler Gerald Burrell on August 22, 1967, in Grant Pass, Southern Oregon. He is the son of Sheri Rose, a teacher, and Gary Gerald Burrell, who worked as a family therapist until his death in 1989. Ty grew up in Applegate, a small Oregon town near the California border. He played football (a lineman) for the Hidden Valley Mustangs while attending Hidden Valley High School. Burrell graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts from Southern Oregon University in 1993. He worked his way through college as a bartender at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and continued his education by earning an MFA from Penn State University. During his time at Penn State, Burrell was an active member (alongside comedian and star Keegan-Michel Key) of the Theater 100 Company.
Burrell was an actor at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 1999 and lived out of his van part of the time when he was in graduate school in order to save money. His first film roles were in 2001’s “Black Hawk Down” and “Evolution.” In 2004, he appeared in the remake of “Dawn of the Dead.” He also added several stage appearances to his resume, like Broadway’s “Macbeth” and off-Broadway plays such as “Show People” and “The Blue Demon.” He co-wrote and starred in the comedy “The Red Herring O’ Happiness” and made a guest appearance on “Law & Order: SVU.” He was cast as Oliver Barnes on Christopher Lloyd’s CBS sitcom “Out of Practice,” which ran from 2005 to 2006. The show was unfortunately canceled with eight remaining episodes that were never aired. Next up, Burrell appeared in the film “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.” He had a small role in the film “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” in 2007 and was cast in a starring role on the Fox sitcom “Back to You” that same year. It was, unfortunately, canceled in 2008. Ty played Leonard Samson in the 2008 Marvel film “The Incredible Hulk.”
Ty’s biggest breakthrough came when he was cast as realtor Phil Dunphy in the ABC sitcom “Modern Family.” His performance was met with much critical acclaim. He reprised his character in commercials for the National Association of Realtors. “Modern Family” was a smash hit and ran from 2009 to 2020. Burrell signed a deal with 20th Century Fox with the intention to, along with his own production company, Desert Whale Productions, develop his own comedy projects in 2020.
Outside of his successful acting career, Burrell opened his own restaurant in Park City, Utah, called The Eating Establishment. He also owns two bars in Salt Lake City, Bar X and Beer Bar, which are connected to each other. In March 2020, when COVID-19 shut down all the bars and restaurants across America, Ty and his wife created Tip Your Server, a crowd-sourcing online fund, in an attempt to help wait staff in Utah who were out of work.
For his performance as Phil Dunphy, Burrell was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (20102017). He won the award in 2011 and 2014. He was also nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance as Phil Dunphy. Burrell won the SAG Award in 2014, defeating Alec Baldwin, who had won the award seven straight years in a row for his performance on “30 Rock.” Ty also shared with his co-stars the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. For his web series “Boondoggle,” he was nominated in 2017 for the Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.
Ty has been married to his wife, Holly, since 2000. The first they lived in New York City, then they moved to Salt Lake City, and they lived in Southern California from 2009 to 2020 due to his work on the set of “Modern Family.” They still own their two-bedroom apartment in NYC’s Astoria neighborhood. On March 18, 2010, Ty and Holly adopted a baby girl named Francis. They adopted another girl two years later. Burrell is an avid fan of the New York Mets, Oregon Ducks, Los Angeles Rams, and Portland Trailblazers.
In February 2017, Ty spent $4.2 million on a mansion in LA’s Cheviot Hills neighborhood. His house is actually just a few blocks from the home that was used as the exterior for the Dunphy family. Around the time of this purchase, Ty offloaded his former penthouse apartment in Culver City, California, for $1.4 million.
