What Is Samantha Bee's Net Worth?

Samantha Bee is a Canadian-American actress, tv host, author, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Bee is greatest recognized for internet hosting the TBS sequence "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" (2016–current) and for serving as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (2003–2015).

Samantha has greater than 40 appearing credit to her identify, together with the movies "Coopers' Camera" (2008), "Furry Vengeance" (2010), and "Sisters" (2015) and the tv sequence "Bored to Death" (2009; 2011), "Good God" (2012), and "Game On" (2015–2016). Bee created "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" and the TBS sequence "The Detour" (2016–2019), and she or he has government produced and written for each reveals. She additionally wrote and co-produced the sequence "Not This But This" (2007) and government produced TruTV's "It's Personal with Amy Hoggart" (2020).

Samantha has additionally lent her voice to animated tasks corresponding to "Get Squirrely" (2015), "Elliot the Littlest Reindeer" (2018), "Bob's Burgers" (2012–2017), "Bounty Hunters" (2013), and "Creative Galaxy" (2013–2017), and she or he hosts the podcast "‎Full Release with Samantha Bee." She has written the books "I Know I Am, But What Are You?" (2010) and "Cracking Up" (2016), and Samantha and her fellow "Daily Show" writers contributed to "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" (2004). In 2017, Bee was included on "Time" journal's record of the world's 100 most influential folks.

Early Life

Samantha Bee was born Samantha Anne Bee on October 25, 1969, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her mother and father, Ronald and Debra, cut up up shortly after Samantha's beginning, and Bee has stated, "Dating from properly earlier than the flip of the twentieth century, if there has ever been a profitable, completely satisfied marriage in my family lineage, I've but to listen to about it." When Samantha was very younger, she was raised by her grandmother, who was a secretary at a Catholic college.

Bee studied at Humberside Collegiate Institute and York Memorial Collegiate Institute, then she enrolled at McGill University in Montreal. She studied humanities there for a yr, then she transferred to the University of Ottawa, the place she took a theatre class and found that she liked performing. Samantha later attended Toronto's George Brown Theatre School.

Career

When Bee was 26, she performed the title function in a touring stage manufacturing of "Sailor Moon." She was a part of the manufacturing's "A" solid, and her future husband, Jason Jones," was within the "B" solid. Samantha co-founded The Atomic Fireballs, a Toronto sketch comedy troupe, with three different ladies. Bee made her tv debut in a 2000 episode of "Real Kids, Real Adventures," then she appeared within the TV motion pictures "Ham I Am" (2001) and "Jasper, Texas" (2003). From 2003 to 2015, she served as a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," showing in additional than 320 episodes of the present. Bee appeared in her first function movie, "Ham & Cheese," in 2004, and in 2007, she guest-starred on "Rescue Me" and starred within the superhero film "Underdog." Samantha co-starred together with her husband within the 2008 movie "Coopers' Camera," and that yr she additionally appeared in "The Love Guru." In 2009, she started a three-episode stint on HBO's "Bored to Death" and appeared within the movies "Whatever Works" and "Motherhood." The following yr, Bee had an uncredited function within the Tina-Fey-Steve Carell comedy "Date Night," appeared within the movie "Furry Vengeance," and guest-starred on "Law & Order." She portrayed Mother Goose on "Sesame Street" in 2010 and 2012, then she appeared within the movie "Learning to Drive" (2014) and guest-starred on "The Michael J. Fox Show" (2014), "Deadbeat" (2014), and "Halal In The Family" (2015).

Samantha co-starred with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in 2015's "Sisters," which grossed $105 million on the field workplace, and she or he performed Geri on the Canadian teen sitcom "Game On" from 2015 to 2016. Since 2016, she has hosted "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," which made her the primary lady to host a late-night satirical information sequence. She earned a Primetime Emmy for the 2017 "Full Frontal" particular "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner," and that yr she launched a shirt studying "Nasty Woman" that raised greater than $1 million for Planned Parenthood. In 2018, Bee launched the manufacturing firm Swimsuit Competition and signed a first-look take care of TBS. In current years, Samantha has guest-starred on "The Detour" (2016; 2019) and "Blue's Clues & You!" (2020) and appeared within the TV sequence documentary "The History of Comedy" (2017).

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Personal Life

Samantha married actor/author Jason Jones on October 13, 2001. Jones would go on to turn out to be a correspondent for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in 2005, and the couple co-created "The Detour," which Jason starred on from 2016 to 2019. Bee and Jones have three youngsters, daughters Piper (born January 2006) and Ripley (born October 2010) and son Fletcher (born June 2008). As of 2014, Samantha holds twin citizenship between Canada and the U.S.

Awards and Nominations

Bee has been nominated for 17 Primetime Emmys for "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," profitable Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" in 2017. Her different nominations had been for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, Outstanding Variety Talk Series, Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Interactive Program, Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series, and Outstanding Short Form Variety Series. "Full Frontal" has obtained 4 Writers Guild of America Award nominations, and she or he took residence the prize for Comedy/Variety Specials for "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" in 2020. The sequence has additionally earned Samantha a Gold Derby Award for Variety Performer (2016), a Gracie Allen Award for On-Air Talent – Entertainment or Sports (2017), and a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information (2016) in addition to nominations from the Critics' Choice Real TV Awards (Female Star of the Year, 2021), MTV Movie + TV Awards (Best Host, 2017), Online Film & Television Association (Best Female Performance in a Variety Program, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020), People's Choice Awards (The Nighttime Talk Show of 2019), and PGA Awards (Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television, 2017 and 2018).

Bee has obtained a number of awards and nominations from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, together with three awards for TV Current Affairs Show of the Year for "Full Frontal" and three nominations for Wilde Wit of the Year. The Canadian Comedy Awards named her Canadian Comedy Person of the Year in 2015, and she or he received the award for Television – Pretty Funny Female Performance for "The Daily Show" in 2005 and Best Performance by a Female – Film for "Coopers' Camera" in 2009.

In 2016, Samantha was honored with a History Making Award from the Women's Media Center, and in 2019, "Full Frontal" received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode for "Trans Rights Under Attack." Bee has additionally earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series for "Good God" (2013) and a Shorty Award nomination for Best Comedian (2017).

Real Estate

In 2017, Samantha and Jason paid $3.7 million for a two-unit co-op in Manhattan. The condominium contains 4 bedrooms, a media room, and a hearth with a marble mantel.

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