George Lopez net worth: George Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host who has a net worth of $45 million. He is best known as a standup comedian, actor, and late-night talk show host. He is the producer of the critically acclaimed film Real Women Have Curves.
Early Life: George Lopez was born on April 23, 1961, in the Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills, California. He is of Mestizo Mexican descent. He is the son of Frieda and Anatasio Lopez, a migrant worker. His father abandoned him when he was two months old. His mother deserted him when he was 10-years-old. He was raised by his maternal grandmother, Benita Gutierrez, and step-grandfather, Refugio Gutierrez. His grandmother was a factory worker. His step-grandfather was a construction worker. Lopez graduated from San Fernando High School in 1979.
Career: In 1999, Lopez hosted a major morning radio show in Los Angeles, becoming the first Latino to headline the morning slot on an English-language station in LA. Lopez was featured in the 2000 drama film Bread and Roses. In 2000, after several years of performing stand-up comedy, Lopez was approached by actress Sandra Bullock for Lopez to produce and star in a comedy. Bullock was concerned about the lack of Hispanic-oriented sitcoms on American television and pushed to get a sitcom on television that starred Hispanics without being exclusively about the Hispanic American community. ABC picked up the television series and in 2002, Lopez became one of the few Latinos to star in a television comedy series. George Lopez is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 2002 to 2007. Lopez was the co-creator, writer, producer, and star of the show. On March 8, 2007, it was announced that George Lopez the sitcom was joining the Nick at Nite lineup. It first aired on Nick at Nite on September 10, 2007. The series was canceled after its sixth season. The show last aired on ABC September 7, 2007. The show also entered syndication in the fall of 2007. Never a big Nielsen hit in prime-time, the show became a surprise success in syndication.
Lopez's HBO Films drama Real Women Have Curves premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the 2002 Audience Award.
Brown is The New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream is a 2007 documentary directed and produced by Phillip Rodriguez.
Lopez was a cast member and commentator for HBO's hit sports show Inside the NFL for the 2003–04 football season. He guest-starred as the mayor of Reno, Nevada in season five of Reno 911! in 2008. In 2010, Lopez appeared in The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan, starring as a villain named Glaze. The following year Lopez reprised his role as Papi for Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, and was the voice of a toco toucan, Rafael, in the box-office animated hit Rio, alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx.
In November 2009, Lopez Tonight, George's late-night talk show, debuted on TBS. The show aired Monday through Thursday. On August 10, 2011, Lopez received a cancellation notice from TBS. The network decided not to renew Lopez Tonight for a third season. Lopez's next sitcom debuted on FX in March 2014. Saint George was produced under Debmar-Mercury and Lionsgate Television's syndication model, which states that if a show hits certain ratings thresholds in its first 10-episode run, it triggers an additional 90-episode order. Failing to do so, Saint George was canceled in June 2014, after one season.
In August 2015, TV Land announced a straight-to-series order for Lopez, a semi-autobiographical single-camera sitcom, which debuted on March 30, 2016. Lopez was canceled in November 2017 after two seasons. Lopez was invited to be a guest judge on America's Got Talent in 2016. He was allowed to use his golden buzzer once, which made an act go straight to the live shows. He used his on the dance group Malevo.
In 2019, he played the role of Captain Gomez in the independent film El Chicano.
Lopez's autobiography Why You Crying was published by a division of Simon & Schuster and was a New York Times Bestseller.
He has been widely recognized by the Latino community including being named one of Time magazine's Top 25 Hispanics in America. Lopez hosted the Latin Grammy Awards twice and the Emmy Awards once. Lopez was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in 2006 at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. In 2011 he won an ALMA Award for Lopez Tonight.
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Personal Life: In 1993, George Lopez and Ann Serrano got married in 1993. The couple has a daughter, Mayan, born in 1996. In September 2010, Lopez announced that he and his wife had decided to end their marriage. Serrano filed for divorce in November 2010, citing "irreconcilable differences." The divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011. In a March 2014 appearance on Howard Stern, George acknowledged that he was once worth over $50 million, but lost half of his money in his divorce.
Lopez has a genetic condition that caused his kidneys to deteriorate. His doctors had told him in April 2004 that he was going to require an organ transplant but he postponed the operation until finishing the fourth season of George Lopez. In 2005, his wife Ann donated one of her kidneys to Lopez. The transplant was successful; Lopez lost 45 lbs after the operation due in part to the improvement in his health. He brought awareness to the issue on his show; his character's son Max was diagnosed with a similar illness.
Salary Highlights: During the George Lopez the sitcom's five-year run Lopez was paid $12 million per season. As a first-time co-creator/executive producer Lopez was entitled to 6.5% of royalties when the show was sold into syndication which occurred in the fall of 2007. Syndication earned Lopez an estimated $20 million. He earns an additional $8.5 million a year performing stand up to sold out crowds.
Real Estate: In September 2014, Lopez bought a $2.67 million home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 4,100-square-foot Mediterranean-style home has four bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and is on a gardened lot that's about a third of an acre. The home has a pool and patio area in the backyard as well as city views from two-story windows, a wine room, and a private master suite with a balcony.
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