Early Life
Michael Joh Myers was born on May 25, 1963, in Scarborough, Ontario. His father, Eric Myers, was an insurance agent, and his mother, Alice “Bunny” E. Myers (née Hind), was an office supervisor and a Royal Air Force veteran. They had left Liverpool, England, and moved to Canada. Paul and Peter are the names of Myers’ two older brothers. He grew up in a suburb of Toronto and went to Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute and Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute. In 1982, he graduated from Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
Beginnings of Career
Myers has been in commercials since he was two years old. When he was ten years old, he and Gilda Radner were both in a commercial for British Columbia Hydro. He joined The Second City Canadian touring company after he graduated from high school. After that, he moved to the UK, where he helped start an improv group called The Comedy Store Players.
Around the same time, Mike started appearing on the British children’s show Wide Awake Club with comedian Neil Mullarkey. In 1986, he moved back to Toronto and joined the cast of the main stage show at The Second City Toronto. In 1988, he moved to Chicago and worked at the Improv Olympic, where he trained, performed, and taught.
Career Details
Myers got his start in show business as a child star. When he was 12, he was on the sitcom “King of Kensington.” Later, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he helped start a group called “Comedy Store Players” in October 1985.
Myers was in the 1986 movie “Wide Awake Club.” In the same year, he joined the cast of a show at Toronto’s Second City Theatre.
In 1989, he tried out to be on “Saturday Night Live,” an American sketch comedy and variety show. In the same year, he was chosen to be a featured player on the show. In the late 1980s, he did a lot of things, like playing Wayne Campbell on “Citytv” and being in the music video “Boys and Girls.”
In 2001, he did the voice work for the animated movie “Shrek.” In the third Austin Powers movie, “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” which came out the next year, he played the same character he had played in the second film.
In 2008, he was in the romantic comedy “The Love Guru,” which he also helped write and make. The next year, he played “General Ed Fenech” in “Inglourious Basterds,” which won an Academy Award.
“Being Canadian, Sometimes,” a documentary that came out in 2013, had him in it. He directed the American documentary film “Supermensch: The Legend of Shep” in the same year.
Mike Myers has a net worth of $200 Million as of July 2022.
What is Mike Myers’ Net Worth and Salary?
| Net Worth: | $200 Million |
| Date of Birth: | May 25, 1963 (59 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Profession: | Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Singer, Voice Actor |
| Nationality: | Canada |
Mike Myers is a very popular Canadian personality. Since making his first movie in 1973, Mike Myers has risen to the top of the entertainment industry. Myers is known for his comedy and acting, which have brought him a lot of success.
He has also been in a lot of movies, TV shows, and Web series. Mike has gotten a lot of attention for his work as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Mike Myers is worth about $200 million right now.
Notable salary
Mike made $1 million from “Wayne’s World,” which came out in 1992. For the second movie, he made $3.5 million.
For the first “Austin Powers” movie, he made $3.5 million, for the second, $7 million, and for the third, $25 million.
He made $3 million for the first “Shrek” movie, $10 million for the second, and $15 million for the third and fourth movies.
The above salaries just cover what he made for acting in those movies. Make has made a lot of money as a producer and creator of his many franchises, especially Shrek, which has made him hundreds of millions of dollars.
Personal Life
In the late 1980s, Myers went out with actress and comedy writer Robin Ruzan. They met at a Chicago ice hockey game. They got married in May 1993, but by December 2005, they were no longer together. In 2006, he began dating Kelly Tisdale. The couple got married in New York City at the end of 2010, and they now have three kids.
Real Estate
Mike paid $14,675,000 in January 2017 for a 4-bedroom condo in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. He sold the property just four months later for $14 million because he wasn’t happy with it. That’s a good way to waste $700,000 or so.
In 2014, he spent $1.65 million on a home on an 8-acre lake in Colchester, Vermont.
In 2007, he spent $8 million on a house in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. At one point, he put this property on the market for sale for $17 million, but he ended up taking it off the market.
