Carol Denise Ensley, known professionally as Niecy Nash, is a producer, actress, model and a comedian born on 23 February 1970, in Palmdale, California USA. She is best known for her roles in a number of big films and TV shows, including ‘The Bernie Mac Show,’ ‘That’s So Raven,’ and ‘Reno 911.’ From 2003 – 2010, she hosted ‘Clean House,’ a popular Style Network show in the U.S.
How rich is Niecy Nash? What’s her net worth, as of early-2016? Niecy is a wealthy woman with an estimated net worth of an impressive $4 million. She has earned most of her money from her career as a comedian, but her work in different fields, including acting and producing, has also seen her become very wealthy. She has received a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress as well as a nomination for her role and performance in ‘Getting On,’ a HBO comedy.
Niecy Nash Net Worth $4 Million
Following the death of Michael Ensley, Nash’s younger brother in 1993, her mother decided to form an organization known as Mothers against Violence in Schools (M.A.V.I.S.), which focuses on informing the public about the kinds of violence encountered by children on campuses. She has been serving as the Spokesperson of the organization.
So it was in 1995 when Nash made her first professional debut in the acting world, featuring in a film known as ‘Boys on the Side.’ She later appeared as a guest star in a number of TV shows, including ‘ER,’ ‘Crime Scene Investigation,’ ‘Girlfriends,’ ‘Reba,’ ‘Judging Army,’ and ‘NYPD Blue.’ She also featured in the 1999 movie ‘Cookie’s Fortune’, and the 2000 series ‘City of Angles.’ For six years (2003-2009), she played a crucial role in ‘Reno 911,’ a comedy series premiered on Comedy Central. She also voiced Mrs. Boots on ‘Slacker Cats,’ an ABC animated series, as well as starring as Rhonda in ‘Do Not Disturb,’ a short-lived Fox sitcom.
Beginning in March 2010, Nash appeared in ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ where she partnered with Louis Amstel, but the duo was eliminated, taking the fifth position. In 2011, she started ‘Leave it to Niecy,’ her reality show that showcased her life together with her husband and step-son. The show did not last long, as it was canceled in that same year. She has continued featuring in TV shows and movies, which have included ‘The Soul Man,’ ‘Getting On,’ ‘Selma,’ ‘The Mindy Project,’ ‘Scream Queens’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’.
Niecy Nash has enjoyed considerable success since she made her debut in the comedy and producing world. In 2010, she won an Emmy Award for host/producer of ‘Clean House: The Messiest Home in the Country, ‘and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2015.
In her personal life, Nash married ordained minister Don Nash in 1994, and the two had three children before she filed for divorce in 2007. On September 2010, she became engaged to electrical engineer Jay Tucker, and the two married on 28 May 2011.
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Program
Movies
Reno 911!: Miami, Selma, G-Force, Code Name: The Cleaner, Horton Hears a Who!, Malibu's Most Wanted, Guess Who, Cookie's Fortune, Boys on the Side, Not Easily Broken, Hair Show, Walk of Shame, Nurse 3-D, Trust Me, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie, Pretty/Handsome, The Bachelor, Cook-Off!
TV Shows
The Soul Man, Getting On, Clean House, Reno 911!, Do Not Disturb, Kid Notorious, Scream Queens, Dancing with the Stars, The LeBrons
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Always wears a flower in her hair
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[ash speaking about how she was introduced to the idea of becoming a comedian while a guest on the National Public Radio program, "Fresh Air", in 2015] And I will say that when my brother was murdered in '93, my mother went into a very severe depression. And she said, 'I'm getting in the bed and I'm never getting back out.' And all I knew was that I could make my mother laugh. I never realized that comedy was a gift because I always got in trouble because I got talks too much on my report card or I got pinched for cracking jokes in church. And so when my mother went into this depression, what I started to do was I would go to the foot of her bed every day and I would perform. And I would do characters, I would do voices, I would do a comedy routine, I would dance, I would sing. My mother went from laying down in the bed to sitting up in the bed. And she said, 'I got my peanuts and my water. Go on and do your rendition of things.' So I just kept performing. Then one day I come and my mother's not in the bed. And I'm like, 'Mama, where are you?' She's like, 'we're in here.' And I'm like, 'who is we?' 'Well, I went across the street and got the neighbors. I told them you was funny. Get that karaoke microphone and tell these people some jokes.' And I'm like, 'what?' So I get the microphone, I'm standing on top of the fireplace. I'm, like, tapping the mic, 'is this thing on? How's everybody doing in the living room' was my first bit in front of an audience. And I realized, as I was standing on that fireplace, that comedy was a gift. I did not know that before. And I'm not going to tell you that it healed my mother, but what I am going to say is that it kind of served as a Spackle or a salve when it comes to piecemealing something back together. And so I had been going out auditioning because in my mind, I wanted to do only dramatic work. I never saw myself being a comedian. I wanted to be Cicely Tyson. If you equate it to someone of this day, it would be a Viola Davis. But I couldn't book any work. And after I stood on that fireplace, I heard a voice as audible as my own speak to me and say, Niecy, don't be selfish. It's other people outside who are suffering. You need to go outside and spread this around, Niecy.
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Acting is the call of my life, I felt like I didn't have any other choice. I wasn't committed to anything else.
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Previous job was working at an airline, booking reservations.
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Has 3 children with her now ex-1st husband Don Nash: a son named Dominic Nash (b.1992) and two daughters - Donielle Nash (b.1995) and Dia Nash (b.2000).
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(May 28, 2011) Married for the 2nd time her boyfriend of 2 years Jay Tucker following a 8-month-long engagement.
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Announced that after 9 years on The Style Network hosting Clean House (2003), she is leaving. [August 2010]
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BA from California State University
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She decided she wanted to be an actress when she was five years old, after she had seen black actress Lola Falana on TV.
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She is the front person for M.A.V.I.S. (Mothers Against Violence in Schools), which was founded by her mother in 1993, following the tragic death of her younger brother, who was shot and killed on his high school campus. M.A.V.I.S. aims to inform the public of the violence children encounter on school campuses.
$4 Million
