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According to Celebrity Net Worth, Lisa’s fortune is sitting at an impressive $130 million.
How did Lisa Kudrow become famous?
After a successful string of guest spots in popular sitcoms and small roles in films, Lisa landed the part of Phoebe Buffay in Friends which launched her into the superstar stratosphere. “All I ever wanted to do was be able to support myself as an actor,” she told TODAY last year, “That was the goal.” Well, it’s safe to say that her goal has been met — and then some.
The cast’s salary has been a topic of discussion ever since the show began airing, and there’s been a lot of transparency on how much the cast made during the run of the show and beyond. During the first season of Friends, Lisa brought home $22,500 an episode, for a grand total of $540,000 for the season. This was before anyone knew how successful the show would be. $540,000 a year would be a lie changing salary for pretty much everyone, but her earnings only went up from there.
Even after the show ended it continued making Kudrow and her co-stars money in syndication. According to USA Today, the show still pulls in $1 billion a year from streaming deals and re-runs, and since the stars make 2% of that income, Kudrow is receiving around $20 million a year from work she completed over 20 years ago. Who knew singing “Smelly Cat” and sipping coffee on a cafe couch could be such a lucrative career?
How much did Lisa Kudrow make from Romy and Michele’s High School Runion?
If Friends is Lisa Kudrow’s best-known work on the small screen, then Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is her best-known work on the big screen. The 1997 film has become a cult classic, but the now-iconic characters were born out of another project entirely, one that holds a special significance for Kudrow. In a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Lisa revealed that her and Mira Sorvino’s characters first appeared in a play by Robin Schiff, who would later write Romy and Michele script. “That [play] was my first audition, ever, for 'Airhead No. 2,' Michele,” she told Barrymore. “We were these minor characters. We were on stage a total of seven minutes, in and out, for the whole play.”
There’s no public information about how much Lisa earned for the movie, but considering its $20 million budget and $29.2 million box office, this late-bloomer cult hit probably didn’t make the actor very much money.
While Kudrow has never spoken publicly about the exact amount she received from working on the show, she has been candid about it being a passion project she created with King. In an interview with TODAY, she attributed her early success as the reason she was able to make The Comeback, saying, "Because I was on Friends, I got to create my own shows that didn't have to be as big as Friends, so I could do something like The Comeback or Web Therapy, and that was really fulfilling." That being said, she served as the show’s co-creator, lead actor, and executive producer, and considering the show aired on HBO, she likely took home a sizeable paycheck, just not as much as Friends.
How much did Lisa Kudrow make from Mad About You?
If you’re a Friends fan, you know that Kudrow’s character Phoebe has a twin sister named Ursula. If you’re a Friends super-fan, then you probably know that Ursula actually existed on screen before Phoebe and before Friends was even a show. Mad About You, another NBC sitcom starring Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser, introduced us to the somewhat aloof waitress Ursula. Kudrow played both twins and stayed on as a recurring character during the run of Mad About You, even as she was starring in Friends. Though Phoebe would never cross over, Ursula appeared in eight episodes of Friends, creating an NBC sitcom universe years before cinematic universes were widely discussed.
Lisa Kudrow has an incredible knack for signing onto hit TV series. Most recently, she starred in No Good Deed alongside Ray Romano, Linda Cardellini, Teyonah Parris, Abbi Jacobson and Matt Rogers. Dreamed up by Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman, the dark comedy is full of twists, turns, and surprises, some of which even the actors didn’t see coming. Talking with TODAY, Kudrow disclosed that they were kept in the dark about some of No Good Deed’s bigger moments, telling them she “didn’t know” how the show ended. "Around Episode Five, Ray [Romano] went to Liz and just said, 'We're playing these people. The characters know exactly what happened, but we don't. So, don't you think we should know?' And then it was a big surprise."
How much did Lisa Kudrow make from The Boss Baby?
When you think of Lisa Kudrow’s most famous roles, you probably don’t immediately think of DreamWorks’ animated feature The Boss Baby, but the kiddie blockbuster and its sequel pulled in massive numbers in the global box office. Voicing the Boss Baby’s mother, Kudrow reteamed with former Friends guest star Alec Baldwin who voices the titular tot. When asked by Reuters about their reunion, she said, “That was really fun. And it's funny to think Phoebe, like who breaks up with Alec Baldwin? Why would you send him on his way?”
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