David Mamet was born on the 30th November 1947, in Chicago, Illinois USA, and is an Oscar Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director, best known for such movies as “The Verdict” (1982), “The Untouchables” (1987), “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992), and “Wag the Dog” (1997). Mamet’s career started in the mid- 1970s.
Have you ever wondered how rich David Mamet is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Mamet’s net worth is as high as $20 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a screenwriter. In addition to writing, Mamet also works as a producer and director, which has improved his wealth too.
David Mamet Net Worth $20 Million
David Mamet was born to Jewish parents, Bernard Morris Mamet, an attorney, and Lenore June, a teacher. Mamet studied at the Francis W. Parker School and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and in downtime worked as a busboy in Chicago.
David founded the Atlantic Theater Company in the mid-‘70s, and his first off-Broadway plays came out in 1976 – “American Buffalo”, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago”, and “The Duck Variations”. In 1981, he wrote the script for the thriller called “The Postman Always Rings Twice” starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, and a year later received an Oscar Award nomination for Sidney Lumet’s “The Verdict”, a drama with Paul Newman in the lead role, which grossed over $55 million, and helped David to increase his net worth significantly.
In 1987, Mamet wrote the screenplay for Brian De Palma’s Oscar Award-winning drama “The Untouchables” (1987), the story about Al Capone and the FBI agent Eliot Ness, with Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro starring. The same year, David directed and wrote the Golden Globe Award-nominated thriller called “House of Games”, and ended the decade with the comedy “We’re No Angels” (1989) starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Demi Moore.
Mamet was quite busy in the ‘90s; he started with writing and directing the thriller “Homicide” (1991) with Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy, and then the Oscar Award-nominated “Glengarry Glen Ross” came out in 1992, about real estate agents and based on Mamet’s play for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1984, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and Kevin Spacey. In 1992, David wrote the script for Danny DeVito’s Oscar Award-nominated biography crime-drama “Hoffa” also starring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito and Armand Assante.
Over the next five years, Mamet was involved in several movies, the most notable being “The Edge” with Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Elle Macpherson, “The Spanish Prisoner”, which he directed as well, and Barry Levinson’s Oscar Award-nominated comedy “Wag the Dog”, with Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Anne Heche starring, and Mamet receiving an Oscar Award nomination for Best Writing – Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. He ended the ‘90s with such movies as “Ronin” (1998) with Robert De Niro and Jean Reno, and wrote and directed “The Winslow Boy” (1999); his net worth was certainly on the rise!
In the early 2000s, Mamet directed and wrote the comedy called “State and Main” (2000) starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and Rebecca Pidgeon. His next screenplay was for Ridley Scott’s “Hannibal” (2001), with Anthony Hopkins. Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman, which helped him to improve his wealth since the film earned over $350 million worldwide.
David continued with writing and directing – the crime film “Heist” (2001) starring Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon and Danny DeVito, and then “Spartan” (2004) with Val Kilmer and William H. Macy. Mamet again teamed up with William H. Macy, Julia Stiles and Joe Mantegna in the thriller entitled “Edmond” (2005), based on his previous play. In 2006, he created a Primetime Emmy Award-nominated series “The Unit”, which aired for 69 episodes until 2009. David ended the 2000s with the sports-drama “Redbelt” (2008) starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen and Emily Mortimer.
Most recently, Mamet directed and wrote the Golden Globe Award-nominated biography “Phil Spector” (2013) starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, and wrote the screenplay for the comedy “About Last Night” (2014) with Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy and Regina Hall.
Regarding his personal life, David Mamet has two children with actress Lindsay Crouse, to whom he was married from 1977 to 1990. Since 1991, he has been married to singer-songwriter and actress Rebecca Pidgeon, and the pair has two children together.
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