Alan Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo (note: AL DA) on 28 January 1936, in The Bronx, New York City USA. Alan is an actor and producer, undoubtedly best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the popular world-wide long-running TV series “M*A*S*H”, for playing Arnold Vinick in “The West Wing”, and for his role in the world-wide known movie called “The Aviator” which brought him an Academy Award. Alda has significantly been nominated for 31 Emmy Awards, winning a couple and two Golden Globes also. Alda is also known as a screenwriter and author.
So just how rich is Alan Alda? Sources estimate that Alan Alda has a net worth of $45 million, accumulated from his work in the entertainment industry and from his book-writing.
Alan Alda Net Worth $45 Million
Alan had a chance early in life to reside in many places around the United States, because his father Robert was was an actor and singer working in burlesque theater, and from whom Alan obviously inherited a talent for acting. Alan`s mom Joan was a winner of several beauty competitions. Alan also spent a great amount of time in Europe when he was a child, and it was in Amsterdam where Alan got a chance to appear on television with his father.
Alan Alda was educated at Archbishop Stepinac High School, and then graduated from Fordham University in 1956 with a degree in English. In his study years, Alan also took on minor jobs, one such was hosting a university radio show. For some time Alan studied in Paris, too, before starting seriously pursuing a career in acting in the late 1950s.
Alan Alda’s early career was spent as a member of The Compass Players comedy revue, which included performances on Broadway. For one of these roles, in “The Apple Tree”, Alda received a nomination for a Tony Award as Best Actor. Subsequently, during the 11 years of M*A*S*H Alan not only acted in but also wrote and directed several episodes, including the finale in 1983 which remains the most-watched single episode of any TV series.
Alan Alda has too many film credits to mention all of them. In 1993, Alan starred in “Manhattan Murder Mystery” along with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, and then starred in such movies as “Tower Heist”, “Canadian Bacon”, “What Women Want”, “Flirting with Disaster” and “The Mephisto Waltz”.
On TV, Alan Alda served as a host of “Scientific American Frontiers”, the 12 years of which added great revenues to Alan Alda’s net worth. He was also often a panellist on “What’s My Line?” and “I’ve Got a Secret”.
Alan Alda is a current professor at the State University of New York. This position as well as his membership of The Center for Communicating Science, an advisory board, has also benefitted him when accumulating his net worth. Alan is also a member of the World Science Festival, as well as a judge of Math-O-Vision.
Somewhat unusually for an actor, Alan Alda has had a very stable personal life, having been married to Arlene Weiss since 1957: they have welcomed three daughters, and live in Leonia, New Jersey.
What is also interesting is that Alan is known as a supporter of women`s rights, and of many charities.
