Nick Offerman was born on the 26th June 1970 in Joliet, Illinois, of Swiss and German descent. The world knows him for his acting skills, which he showed initially in his first major role as Ron Swanson in the sitcom “Parks and Recreation” on the NBC channel, for which he won the award of the Television Critics Association for Individual Achievement in Comedy. He has been active since 1997.
An American film and television actor, how rich is Nick Offerman as of late 2015? It has been estimated that the sum of Offerman’s net worth is equal to $4 million, with the main source from his successful career as an actor. Another source of his wealth is coming from his two published books. However, he is also recognized as a wood craftsman and boat builder.
Nick Offerman Net Worth $4 Million
Nick Offerman was raised in the countryside of Illinois, in a middle-class family. He is the second child of four, whose mother was a nurse and father a teacher. When he was in high school he had a great number of interests, such as sports, playing the saxophone and acting. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied acting and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993. In the same year, his professional career began, when he founded the Defiant Theatre, a Chicago-based theatre company, with a group of other students. The next few years he spent playing on that stage, winning several theatre awards. His net worth rose slowly.
During this time he had also worked as a fight choreographer, and master carpenter. He started to make furniture and other wooden structures, such as boats. In 2008, he released a DVD with the instructions of how to build a canoe, called “Fine Woodstrip Canoe Building with Nick Offerman”.
Nevertheless, Offerman’s first major appearance came in the role of Wilks, in the movie “Going All The Way” in 1997, which helped him to gain recognition and other roles in television projects for the next 20 years, such as “ER” (1997) in the role of Rog, “Will and Grace” (2001) playing Nick the plumber, “The Practise” (2002) as Charles Rossi, “Deadwood” (2004) playing Tom Mason, “Monk” (2005) in the role of Jack Whitman, all of which added to his net worth and popularity.
However, Nick Offerman’s most successful roles were still ahead. In 2007, he was cast in one of the lead roles in the TV series named “American Body Shop”, in which he played the auto mechanic Rob. He also appeared on “The George Lopez Show”. Afterwards, in 2009 he was offered a regular role in the NBC sitcom named “Parks and Recreations” by the producers, Michael Schur and Greg Daniels. The show has been on TV ever since he got the part, until the present day. Besides that, he has appeared in “Children’s Hospital”, the Adult Swim series. He also had a role in the hit TV series “Fargo”. His net worth was rising steadily.
Apart from his TV work, he has had a number of roles in movies, such as “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005) in the role of Karl Steele, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” (2009) as Scotty Mercer, “21 Jump Street” (2012) playing Deputy Chief Hardy. In 2012, he produced the movie “Somebody Up There Likes Me”. His net worth continued to rise.
Side by side with his acting career, Offerman was writing two semi-autobiographical books. The first was released in 2013, and is called “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, and the other one was published in 2015 and is named “Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers”. Hopefully they added to his net worth.
Regarding Nick Offerman’s personal life, he has been married to Megan Mullally, an actress and comedian, since 2003. In 2000, the couple met each other while performing in a play in Los Angeles. Later, she played his wife Tammy in “Parks and Recreation”.
