Tim Allen Net Worth

Tim Allen is an American actor who has amassed a net worth of $100 million due to a long career in contemporary comedy. He has appeared in numerous film and television roles and has also spent years in front of an audience as a stand-up comedian. He is perhaps best known for his roles in Last Man Standing and Home Improvement, which made him a household name and one of America’s favorite comedians. During his peak years on the Home Improvement series, he earned $1.25 million per episode, which still stands as the fifth highest salary ever given to an actor on television.

Tim Allen’s Early Life

Born Timothy Alan Dick on June 13th of, 1953, Tim was raised with five other siblings in Denver, Colorado. When Tim was just eleven years old, his real estate agent father died from a car accident, and his mother remarried two years later. She then relocated along with her children to live with her new husband in the state of Michigan. Since the husband already had three children from his previous marriage, the collective household had nine children altogether.

Academic Career

When Tim reached high school, he quickly got involved with drama and theater and became proficient at playing the piano. There were no hints of his future in the entertainment industry since he didn’t really pursue those lines during his college education years. He attended Western Michigan University and Central Michigan University, eventually graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications. His main focus while in college was radio and television production, and he was heavily involved with the student radio station at school.

Professional career

Tim Allen began his foray into the wonderful world of comedy in 1975 due to a dare from his friends. At a Detroit nightclub, they persuaded him to do some stand-up comedy, and he was a surprisingly big hit with the audience at the club. From then on, he became so successful that he was asked to appear in television ads and on several cable shows.

A major obstacle

Just as his career was gaining momentum, he was arrested in 1978 on a drug trafficking charge. At the Battle Creek International Airport, he was caught in possession of 1.5 pounds of cocaine. In order to get his sentence reduced to three years, he was forced to offer up the names of other drug dealers. While he could have gotten as much as life imprisonment, he was eventually released from prison after serving two years.

Tim Allen’s career resumes

Tim began performing at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles after his release from prison. This led directly to several appearances on talk shows, and he continued doing stand-up comedy, retaining his status as one of the best stand-up comedians in America. His biggest break as an actor occurred in 1991 when he was given the role of a home handyman in the Home Improvement TV series.

He has often said that even though he wasn’t a particularly adept TV actor, he was able to draw on his own personal experiences to make himself believable in the role. The TV series was produced by Wind Dancer Productions, a company Tim himself had previously co-founded. In 1994, he landed another major film role as Santa Claus, in the highest-grossing film of the entire year.

Next year, he had the opportunity to supply the voice for Buzz Lightyear in the huge Pixar hit Toy Story. Then he starred in another Disney production, Jungle 2 Jungle, and reprised his role as Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 2 the next year. In 1999, he had a starring role in the sci-fi film Galaxy Quest along with Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman, and Sigourney Weaver.

During the 2000s, Allen filmed three new Christmas movies; Santa Clause 2, Santa Claus 3, and Christmas with the Kranks. All these were hit movies that did very well at the box office. As the decade ended, he had his first directorial outing in the film Crazy on the Outside.

Tim Allen’s later career

In 2011, Tim landed the leading role in a sitcom called Last Man Standing. The show features a conservative parent who is the only male in a household dominated by females. Much like the Home Improvement series, the show reflects real-life experiences Tim Allen lived through. The series was canceled in 2017 by ABC but was picked up again in 2018 by the Fox network. During that same time frame, Tim starred in yet another Christmas movie called El Camino Christmas.

Tim Allen’s personal life

In 1984, Tim Allen married Laura Deibel, who became his first wife, and they had a daughter in 1989. By 1999, the two had separated, and seven years later, he married his second wife, Jane Hajduk. Since they had been dating for five years before marrying, they already had a very solid, well-established relationship. In 2009, the couple had a daughter together and since then have enjoyed a very wholesome family life. Tim Allen has been closely associated with Republican political views and has been interviewed on Fox News by Sean Hannity many times. He supports many Republican presidential candidates and publicly supported Donald Trump for election in 2016.

His personal fortune

Tim Allen has accumulated his personal fortune as a result of his long-running popularity in television and films, as well as being a highly successful and accomplished stand-up comedian. Allen’s salary is $235,000 for each episode of Last Man Standing, and has reaped the benefits of numerous film roles. Even though he only earned $50,000 for the first Toy Story movie, his salary increased to $5 million for Toy Story 2, then he earned $2 million for Galaxy Quest and $12 million for Joe Somebody. He also earns significant income from several advertisements and endorsements. All these sources of income have contributed to his $100 million personal net worth.

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