Ted Danson Net Worth Money ans More
Net Worth: $80 Million
Profession: Actor, Author and Producer
The actual name of Ted Danson is Edward Bridge Danson III. He was born on 29th December 1947. San Diego in California is the birth place of Ted Danson. He is a multi talented personality. He is not just an actor but is also a producer and an author. He started his career from year 1975. He has done remarkable job in Cheers and Becker. He had worked in many other popular dramas like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Curb your Enthusiasm, Damages, and Bored to Death. He has worked quite well in his career. His success can be tracked by the number of awards he has won. He has been nominated 15 times for Primetime Emmy Awards. He won this award two times in his career. He was nominated ten times of Golden Globe Awards. Thrice he won Golden Globe Awards. He has been nominated in many other popular awards like Screen Actor Guild awards, American Comedy Awards and Hollywood’s Walk of fame. He was placed on the second position in the list of top twenty five stars by TV Guide. He is a very good author too. His first book was published in March 2011. The name of his book is Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do. He wrote his book with the journalist named Michael D’Orso. He contributed a lot in environment issues. He even wrote a book for environment. He further supported many campaigns like American Ocean Campaigns. He is a politically active personality. He has friendly relation with the president of United States named Bill Clinton. He donated around $8500 to democratic candidates like John Edwards and John Kerry.
Early Life
Danson is the son of Edward Bridge Danson and Jess Danson. His father was a well known archaeologist and a museum director. He completed his schooling from Kent School. In his school days he used to play basketball a lot. He was a champion in playing basketball. He went to Stanford University for his graduation. While pursuing graduation he developed his interest in drama. After Stanford University he moved to Carnegie Mellon University which is located in Pittsburgh. He completed his graduation in year 1972 and received bachelors of fine arts degree.
Career
He started his career with a daily soap named Somerset. He worked for one year in that daily soap and then he moved to another series named The Doctors. He made guest appearances in many television shows like Laverne and Shirley, Family, Benson, CSI: NY, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, King of the Hill, Heist, Help me Help You, Knights of South Bronx, Our Fathers, It Must Be love, Living with the Dead, Search for Atlantis, Thanks for a grateful nation, Veronica’s Closet, Gulliver’s Travel, Ink, The Simpsons, Challenge of the Seas, We are the Children, When the Bough Breaks, Something about Amelia, Cowboy, The Amazing Spiderman, Colombo, Trapper John, M.D, The French Atlantic Affair, Taxi, B.J. and the Bear, Magnum P.I. and Tucker’s Witch. He has worked in many films like Three Men and s Baby, Three men and a Little Lady, Cousins, The Onion Filed, Body Heat, Creep show, Just between Friends, Little Treasure, A fine Mess, Dad Made in America, Saving Private Ryan and Getting Even with Dad.
Personal life
The first wife of Ted Danson is Randall. Randall is a very famous actress. He got married in year 1970. But unfortunately their marriage didn’t work well and they got divorced in year 1975. After two years of his divorced, Danson got married to Cassandra Casey Coates. His second wife was a producer. After their marriage his wife gave birth to a daughter. They named their daughter as Kate. After giving birth to Kate, his wife suffered from strokes. For many years he cared for his wife. He helped her to recover from the disease. After sometime they adopted a daughter and name her as Alexis. Danson had an affair with an actress named Whoopi Goldberg. His affair with the actress became the reason for his second divorce. This was the costliest divorce. The divorce was worth $30 Million. In year 1993 he met Mary Steenburgen on the set of a movie. The couple fell in love with each other and got married in year 1995.
Richness
He is a very rich personality. His leads a very luxurious and lavish lifestyle. His profession has made a lot of money for him. His estimated net worth is said to be $80 Million. He takes a lot of money for each episode. Initially he was paid $250,000 per episode. And when his career was on hike he charged $500,000 per episode. He owns a very beautiful and luxurious house in Los Angeles. The house encompasses four beautiful bedrooms which are equipped with all the facilities. The interior of the house is outstanding. It has a well furnished kitchen. The presence of garden outside the house further enhances the beauty of the house. He is very fond of pets also. He has two dogs as pets. The breed of the dog is very unique and expensive. The dogs are the miniature of Australian Shepherd.
