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What is Colleen Ballinger's Net Worth?
Colleen Ballinger is an American comedian, actress, singer, and YouTube personality who has a net worth of $12 million. Colleen Ballinger is best known for playing the internet character Miranda Sings. She posts videos of the character on YouTube and also performers in comedy clubs and theaters worldwide. Colleen's YouTube channel is called Psychosoprano. Ballinger has performed off-Broadway and has appeared on television and web series as well as a guest artist on many albums. Ballinger has over 2 billion views on YouTube as of this writing and around 10 million subscribers. She appeared as Miranda Sings on "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" withJerry Seinfeldand on The Tonight Show in 2014. Ballinger has been ranked one of the top 100 most influential YouTubers. Her Miranda Sings comedy channel was ranked #7, and her Psychosoprano channel was ranked #17 on YouTube comedy channels. In 2015, Colleen wrote a successful memoir and signed a Netflix series deal. Today,she earns $5 million per year from her various endeavors.
Early Life
Colleen Ballinger was born on November 21, 1986, in Santa Barbara, California. She was born to parents Tim Ballinger, a sales manager, and Gwen Ballinger, who primarily was a homemaker. She was raised with her two older brothers, Chris and Trent, and her younger sister, Rachel. Ballinger was homeschooled during middle school and then attended San Marcos High School. After high school, she enrolled at Azusa Pacific University, where she majored in vocal performance before graduating in 2008.
Career
While in her final year of university, Ballinger was working for Disney in California. She also gave private voice lessons, movement coaching, and piano lessons, in addition to performing at various parties and in cabaret spaces. In 2009, she was cast as the character Kelsi Nielsen in "High School Musical" at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre in Claremont, California. In 2010, she contributed to the album "More With Every Line" by songwriter Tim Prottey-Jones, and in 2011, to the album "Self-Taught, Still Learning" by Chris Passey. In New York in 2011, she played Lynda Bird Johnson in a staged reading of "First Kids" and also created the role of Circe in the American Theatre of Actors Off-Broadway production of "Odyssey – The Epic Musical."
Meanwhile, Ballinger was also experiencing some success with her own act. She began uploading videos as the quirky and talentless performer Miranda Sings in 2008. The character is supposed to be a satire of the many YouTube videos featuring bad but very egotistical performers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion despite the fact that they lack talent. In 2009, she began performing her live one-woman comedy act as the character Miranda Sings. As she continued uploading videos of her in the character on her YouTube channel, she started to build a larger and larger audience. This allowed her to later begin touring with the character and further developing a fan base. She has performed her show in major U.S. cities, Australia, Europe, Canada, and elsewhere. She was also invited to appear as Miranda on the fifth season of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" with Jerry Seinfeld in 2014. She also appeared as Miranda in the 2016 YouTube Premium series "Prank Academy" as a guest star in 2016.
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Ultimately, Colleen Ballinger's financial journey is a testament to their success.
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