Melissa McCarthy has gone from playing Sookie on Gilmore Girls to being a perma A-lister who commands a huge per-project paycheck. Like, she makes so much money that she’s one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. So naturally, we did a full breakdown of her year-by-year earnings, plus what she made for Gilmore Girls—since you know you’re curious.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Melissa earned $25 million between 2019 and 2020—during a pandemic, no less! Quick break to check in with your bank account after reading these numbers:
P.S. Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone have a production company together called On the Day Productions, and a lot of her movies (The Boss…The Happytime Murders…Life of the Party) are produced by them—meaning Melissa isn’t just making money from acting!
P.P.S. Before you ask, there’s no word yet on how much Melissa made playing Ursula in The Little Mermaid, nor on whether she was paid in cash or unfortunate souls.
What Did Melissa McCarthy Make for Gilmore Girls?
Good question, and the answer is slightly unclear. But! We did some sleuthing. Apparently, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel made somewhere around $50,000 per episode for the show. But considering they were the leads, it seems safe to assume Melissa’s paycheck was significantly less.
And then there’s Gilmore Girls: Year in the Life. Lauren and Alexis got $3 million each for the revival, per Variety. Meanwhile, Melissa was only in it for approximately two seconds—but she was a mega-star at the time and presumably commanded a pretty impressive paycheck for the cameo? Presumably?
Let’s Chat Melissa McCarthy’s Endorsements
And we’re not just talking on Instagram. Here’s Melissa’s recent Super Bowl commercial for Booking.com.
Unclear how much she made for these, but Super Bowl commercials do not come cheap!
On top of being the face of mega-brands, Melissa is an investor—most recently in the whiskey company Big Nose Kate:
We’re talking multiple homes in and around Los Angeles worth millions each, plus a bungalow that she rents out, and a Manhattan penthouse worth ~$7 million. Must be nice! 🙃
So What Is Melissa McCarthy’s Net Worth in Total?
Melissa McCarthy has a total reported net worth of $90 million. This is obviously HUGE, but Melissa definitely worked her way up! As she told Glamour, “When you spend 20 years working your butt off, you know yourself better. If you’re handed everything you want at 19 or 20, you may actually believe all of the people who are like, ‘You’re amazing.’ I think I would have been probably cuckoo [if I’d been successful] at 18. I think the best thing I could have done was struggle until I was 30. I always assume every job is my last. Twenty years of desperately trying to get a single job gets deep in your DNA.”
She added, “I have a very, very high level of gratitude. There is not a single day that goes by that I don’t think, I can’t believe I’m doing this. And there is no world where I confuse the fact that I’ve gotten lucky with the idea that there’s something special about me. I think entitlement is a really, really scary thing to possess. For me, it’s like, ‘No. I’ve gotten lucky, and I’ve worked hard.’”
On that note, guess I’ll go audition for a CW show and hope for the best.
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