Gabriel Iglesias’s net worth
Gabriel Iglesias is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is one of the richest celebrities in America. He has a net worth of $40 million. Gabriel Iglesias is a highly successful stand-up comedian who tours all over the country, performing stand-up to sold-out crowds of devoted fans. He has also released numerous comedy specials, lately on Netflix, where he was also the star of his sitcom from 2019 to 2020.
Gabriel Iglesias’s early life and successful career
Gabriel Iglesias was born on July 15, 1976, in San Diego, Califonia. He is the youngest of six children. His family moved around a lot when Gabriel was a kid, calling Riverside, Corona, Santa Ana, Baldwin Park, and Compton home before eventually settling in Long Beach.
As his personal story goes, Iglesias left a secure job with a cell phone company to break into comedy despite his family’s objections. His first big break came in 2000 when he briefly appeared on one season of the kids’ comedy sketch show All That on Nickelodeon along with Nick Cannon and Amanda Bynes.
In 2007, he landed roles voicing a Mexican family on an episode of Family Guy and voicing twins on the Disney series The Emperor’s New School. Another break came when he made it to the final eight on the fourth season of the stand-up comedy reality competition Last Comic Standing, but he was eventually kicked off for smuggling a cell phone into the show.
In 2009, the DVD Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Not Fat…I’m Fluffy was released by Comedy Central. Two years later, the network produced Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution, a stand-up showcase program hosted by Iglesias, which ran for three seasons. Gabriel has also managed to parlay his comedy success into a decent acting career, having appeared in several TV shows and movies, including feature films like Magic Mike and A Haunted House 2″ and TV shows such as “My Wife and Kids,” “The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and Modern Family.
The reality TV series Fluffy Break Even and Fluffy’s Food Adventures featured Iglesias, and in 2012, he got a nomination for an ALMA Award for Favorite TV Reality, Variety, or Comedy Personality or Act. He had a recurring role as Alberto on the ABC sitcom Cristela from 2014 to 2015.
Gabriel has also accumulated a decent list of credits as a voice actor and can be heard in the animated movies Planes, The Nut Job, The Book of Life, Norm of the North, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, Coco, The Star, and Blazing Samurai. Then, in 2019, he got his sitcom on Netflix entitled Mr. Iglesias, which he has described as being about the alternate history of his own life in which he became a history teacher instead of being successful in stand-up comedy. Iglesias has also released three comedy albums: Hot and Fluffy, We Luv Fluffy, and Aloha Fluffy.
