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What Is Hal Sparks' Net Worth?
Hal Sparks is an American actor, comedian, musician, director, and producer who has a net worth of $2 million. Hal Sparks hosted the E! network's "Talk Soup" from 1999 to 2000, and he has played Michael Novotny on Showtime's "Queer As Folk" (1999–2005) and Donald Davenport on Disney XD's "Lab Rats" (2012–2016) and "Lab Rats: Elite Force" (2016). Hal has released the stand-up comedy albums "Charmageddon" (2010) and "Wreckcreation" (2018), and he executive produced the "Charmageddon" TV special. Sparks has more than 40 acting credits to his name, including the films "Lost & Found" (1999), "Dude, Where's My Car?" (2000), "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" (2003), "Spider-Man 2" (2004), and "Extract" (2009) and the television series "Frasier" (2003), "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2005), "Las Vegas" (2006), "Fuller House" (2016), and "Grey's Anatomy" (2018).
Hal voiced the title character on the Nickelodeon series "Tak and the Power of Juju" (2007–2009), and he has also lent his voice to the films "Dr. Dolittle 2" (2001) and "Dead Space: Downfall" (2008). He executive produced the 2006 short film "Denial" and the 2009 film "The House That Jack Built," and he directed four episodes of "Lab Rats" and two episodes of "Lab Rats: Elite Force." Sparks has appeared on several VH1 shows, such as "I Love the '70s," "I Love the '80s," "I Love the '90s," "I Love the New Millennium," and "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs." In 2001, Hal earned an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination for Best Actor in a New Drama Series for "Queer as Folk." Besides his work in films and television, Sparks is also the lead vocalist and guitarist of a hard rock band called Zero 1, and they released a self-titled album in 2006.
Early Life
Hal Sparks was born Hal Harry Magee Sparks III on September 25, 1969, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hal grew up in the small Kentucky town of Peaks Mill, and he spent his Sundays playing Dungeons & Dragons with his friends at a library in Frankfort, becoming a "de-facto dungeon master" at the age of 11. When Sparks was 14, he moved to Illinois with his father. There, Hal attended New Trier High School near Chicago and got involved in the school's theater department. He started performing stand-up comedy at the age of 15, and two years later, he was named "Chicago's Funniest Teenager" when he entered a stand-up comedy contest that was sponsored by the newspaper the "Chicago Sun-Times." Just over two weeks after graduating from high school, Sparks moved to Los Angeles.
Career
Hal made his onscreen acting debut in the 1987 TV movie "Frog" alongsideShelley Duvall,Elliott Gould, and future "ER" starScott Grimes, and his first feature film was 1989's "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown." He guest-starred on "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1994), "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1995), "Signs and Wonders" (1995), and "Night Stand" (1995; 1996), and he appeared in the 1999David Spadecomedy "Lost & Found." In 1999, Sparks was hired to replace outgoing hostJohn Hensonon the Emmy-winning show "Talk Soup," and in 2000, he played Zoltan the cult leader in "Dude, Where's My Car?" alongsideAshton KutcherandSeann William Scott. Hal reunited with David Spade in 2003's "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star," then he appeared in the films "Lightning Bug" (2004), "Spider-Man 2" (2004), "Denial" (2006), "The House That Jack Built" (2007), and "Extract" (2009). He guest-starred on "Martial Law" (2000), "One on One" (2002), "Frasier" (2003), and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2006), and in 2008, he independently produced the stand-up comedy special "Escape from Halcatraz."
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