Born in 1958, Jennifer Tilly is a poker player and actress from the United States who has made quite a big fortune. Keep on reading this article to find out her net worth.
Her initial desire was to become an actress, so she studied a theater program at the Stephens College in Missouri. Her TV career began with a guest role in Hill Street Blues and her breakthrough role in a movie was in The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Her acting career took a great start and she soon began to stand out among Hollywood actors. Some famous movies that she starred in were: Liar, Liar; Monsters Inc., Bullets Over Broadway or the Bride of Chuck. For “Bullets Over Broadway” (a movie directed by Woody Allen), she even got the Academy Award for best supporting artist in 1994.
She got married with none other than the creator of The Simpsons, but the marriage eventually failed. She was famous for her bubbly persona and the type of a sexy but dim girlfriend. But this is not all, because she also had a great career as a voice actress, appearing in popular TV series like The Family Guy and big films like Stuart Little and Monsters Inc.
Her first contact with poker was in 1989, when starring in the movie Let It Ride. But she got into this game more seriously only in 2003, when she started to participate in poker tournaments. She was convinced to do this by her boyfriend, the professional poker player Phil Laak. So she definitely had a good mentor to learn from.
Her first serious game was an invitational World Poker Tour event held at the Commerce Casino in 2003. She showed a lot of talent and passion for the game, and just 2 years later she won the World Series World Poker Championship for women and also the World Poker Ladies Night III. She also won the Paul Hannum Charity Tournament, the No Limit Hold’em event at the 2006 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the famous Bellagio Casino and many more others. She also appeared in Poker shows like the Celebrity Poker Showdown, the ESPN Pro AM Poker Equalizer, the Poker Superstars Invitational and the GSN Poker Royale.
She was so proud with her poker achievements, that she began to show more interest for poker and less for acting. But she still appeared in some movies since then, but nothing as major as the roles we mentioned earlier. She eventually married Phil Laak, making them a popular and well established couple in the poker industry.
From the above mentioned sources of acting and playing poker, it is estimated that Jennifer Tilly’s net worth in 2019 is that of 25 million dollars.
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