Samuel Alexander Mendes who is British film, also stage director, mostly known as Sam Mendes was born in Reading, Berkshire, England on 1 of August in 1965. Professionally active Samuel became since 1993 and already estimates net worth of $30 million. Son of Valeria, who was a writer of children books, and father Jameson, a professor of University. Sam has Italian and Portuguese blood, his grandfather was an author, Alfred Hubert Mendes, from Trinidad. Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Theater Director, Television Producer and Director for the most part led a very successful and healthy career which also accrue a very nice salary.
Sam Mendes Net Worth $30 Million
Mendes was attending the Magdalen College School and was studying in Peterhouse, Cambridge, where also was playing cricket for University. Already there, Sam showed his first signs of success in career. As Theater director, he directed many plays while working in the Marlowe Society, and even tried himself working in a Cyrano de Begarec production as director, where Tom Hollander was also casting.
Talking about theater production, during 1990s, Sam achieved big success in some of England`s most known theaters. He became popular for the state musicals as Cabaret, 1994, Oliver!, 1994, Company, 1996 and Gypsy, 2003. Also his first directed stage musical was Carlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2013.
Sam`s first movie as debut was American Beauty, 1999, where main role took Kevin Spacey. It was a big success to movies industry and he became more and more known to a public. A movie earned even $365.3 million, can you believe it? With this movie Mendes won several awards, also for The Best Director, he got Academy Award, as a result, Samuel Mendes becoming one of the sixth director in history to earn the Academy Award for his feature film debut.
Samuel was lucky from both sides as an English stage and film director who has net worth of $30 million. There are more movies which earned good salary and nominations for Golden Globe, the crime film Road to Perdition in 2002, where acts Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates, then Revolutionary Road, which was released in 2008, movie Skyfall of James Bond in 2010, which was published on the franchisee of the 50th anniversary. In 2000 Mendes was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for services to drama, and lately in the same year got the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany and one more, not less important award received in 2005, a lifetime achievement from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
You can imagine how rich is Sam Mendes, who achieved so much in his life, he can be really proud, that in such a successful career, owed not only several nominations, but has a net worth of $30 million. Mendes married British actress Kate Winslet on 24 May in 2003 and in the same year, was born their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, in New York City. In March 2010, Kate Winslet and Samuel Mendes announced their separation and then in 2011, divorced.
