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What Is Chris Parnell's Net Worth?
Chris has more than 170 acting credits to his name, including the films "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004), "Hot Rod" (2007), "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007), "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" (2013), and "Sisters" (2015) and the television series "Miss Guided" (2008), "Suburgatory" (2011–2014), "Grown-ish" (2018), and "Happy Together" (2018–2019). Parnell voices Cyril Figgis on "Archer" (2009–present) and Jerry Smith on "Rick and Morty" (2013–present), and he has also lent his voice to the films "Escape from Planet Earth" (2013), "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015), and "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" (2018) and the TV shows "WordGirl" (2007–2015), "Electric City" (2012), "Nature Cat" (2015–2020), "Dawn of the Croods" (2015–2016), "The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show" (2015–2017), "Elena of Avalor" (2016–present), "American Dad!" (2016–present), and "Family Guy" (2019–2021).
Chris Parnell was born Thomas Christopher Parnell in February 5, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up in a Southern Baptist household with father Jack (a radio personally) and mother Shirley. In a 2015 Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), Chris was asked about his heritage, and he responded, "My heritage I don't know, because I'm adopted, but based on information that the adoption agency got from my birth parents, they seem to think I was Irish, English and German." Parnell attended the Southern Baptist Educational Center and Germantown High School, and when he was 17, he decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a stage actor. After graduation, he enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he earned a BFA in Drama. Chris then moved to Houston, Texas, and joined an apprentice actor program at the Alley Theatre. He was not asked to join the theatre company after his apprenticeship, so he returned to Memphis and spent a year teaching at Germantown High School. In 1992, Parnell moved to Los Angeles and began taking classes at the Groundlings.
From 2011 to 2014, Chris played Fred Shay on ABC's "Suburgatory" alongside "SNL" vetAna Gasteyer, and in 2012, he appeared in "21 Jump Street," "The Five-Year Engagement," and "The Dictator." He co-starred with numerous "SNL" alums in 2015's "Sisters," "The Ridiculous 6," and "The Spoils Before Dying," then he appeared in the films "Battle of the Sexes" (2017), "Life of the Party" (2018), "Slice" (2018), "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween" (2018), and "The Last Laugh" (2019). Parnell played Dean Parker on the "Black-ish" spin-off "Grown-ish" in 2018, and from 2018 to 2019, he was a series regular on the CBS sitcom "Happy Together." In 2021, he appeared in the Netflix film "Finding ʻOhana" and the Disney+ comedy "Home Sweet Home Alone," which is the sixth movie in the "Home Alone" series. Chris has guest-starred on numerous TV series, including "Friends" (2001), "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2011), "Glee" (2014), "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (2015), "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (2017; 2020), "The Goldbergs" (2019–2020), and "Will & Grace" (2019–2020).
Parnell appeared in the 2000 "SNL" spin-off movie "The Ladies Man," then he co-starred with fellow University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumDiedrich Baderin 2003's "Evil Alien Conquerors." That year he also appeared in the film "Down with Love," and in 2004, he played Garth Holliday in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" and "Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie." Chris reprised the role in 2013's "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." In 2007, he co-starred with Andy Samberg, Isla Fischer,Bill Hader, andDanny McBridein "Hot Rod" and withJohn C. Reilly,Jenna Fischer,Tim Meadows, andKristen Wiigin "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." In 2008, Parnell played Vice Principal Bruce Terry on the ABC series "Miss Guided," then he appeared in the films "Paper Man" (2009), "Labor Pains" (2009), "Hollywood & Wine" (2010), and "The Dogfather" (2010) and reunited with his former "SNL" co-starHoratio Sanzon the Comedy Central sitcom "Big Lake" (2010).
While he was a company player with the Groundlings, Chris started acting in commercials and landing guest roles on TV shows such as "Hope & Gloria" (1996), "Seinfeld" (1997), and "TheJamie FoxxShow" (1997). He made his big screen debut in 1996's "Jingle All the Way," and in 1998, he was hired as a featured player on "Saturday Night Live." He was promoted to a full cast member the following season, and in 2001, he was fired due to budget cuts, but his absence didn't last long. As Parnell joked in a November 2002 "SNL" rap, "Lorne liked me so much he hired me twice." In September 2006, after appearing in more than 140 episodes of the show, Chris was the victim of budget cuts once again, but he quickly found a new role, thanks to his former "SNL" castmateTina Fey: Dr. Leo Spaceman on "30 Rock." Quite possibly the world's worst (but most entertaining) doctor, Dr. Spaceman was featured in 24 episodes of the series and was reportedly "sort of loosely based onLorne Michaels' real life doctor."
Chris is also known for starring in the "Lazy Sunday" video withAndy Samberg; the video went viral after airing on "SNL" in December 2005 and was named one of the "videos that changed YouTube forever" by "Business Insider" in 2020.
Chris Parnell is an American actor who has a net worth of $7 million. Parnell was a cast member on the NBC sketch series "Saturday Night Live" from 1998 to 2006, and he had a very memorable recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on another NBC series, "30 Rock," from 2006 to 2013.
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