Heather Ann McDonald was born on 14 June 1970, in the San Fernando Valley, California USA, of Irish and French-Canadian descent. Heather is an author, comedian, and actress, best known for appearing in the series “Chelsea Lately”, and then in the spin-off “After Lately”, and is also a part of the writing team of several shows. All of her endeavors have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Heather McDonald? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $2 million, mostly earned through her career on television. Aside from the shows she’s worked on, she’s also written several books, including a memoir that became a New York Times Best Seller. As she continues her career it is expected that her wealth will increase.
Heather Mcdonald Net Worth $2 million
After matriculating from high school, McDonald attended the University of Southern California (USC), and then took theatre classes at The Groundlings after graduating. She did a lot of improvisation and comedy projects at the theatre, while following her parents in working to become a licensed realtor.
In the 1990s, Heather started doing a lot more writing work, collaborating with fellow writer/actor Keenan Ivory Wayans. In 2001, she began working for the MTV show “Lyricist Lounge” which lasted for a year. Afterwards, she toured with the Wayans brothers, writing and performing with them as seen in some of their films. She also did regular stand-up comedy shows in Los Angeles, for which she is well known, involving a lot of impressions of female characters. Some of the impressions she does include Miley Cyrus, Khloe Kardashian, and Tina Fey. In 2007, she became a writer for “Chelsea Lately” and participated in numerous sketches of the show which would run for seven years, with Heather as the main story producer. She then went on to become part of E!’s “After Lately”, which was a mockumentary. She also has a podcast called “Juice Scoop” which has around 150,000 subscribers, and also hosts “All About Sex”, a show from TLC. She also makes regular guest appearances in other shows such as “Real Housewives of Orange County”, “Flipping Out”, “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, and “Rupaul’s Drag Race”. All added to her net worth.
Three years later, she decided to write a few books, her first entitled “You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again: One Woman’s Painfully Funny Quest to Give It Up”, which would become a New York Times Best-Seller, about her life in college. In 2013, she released another memoir entitled “My Inappropriate Life (Some Stories Not Suitable for Nuns, Children, or Mature Adults)”. One of her latest projects is a stand-up special called “Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag” which is available through Netflix. These all helped her net worth as well.
For her personal life, it is known that Heather is married to investment banker Peter Dobias. They have two children and Peter has another daughter from a previous relationship. She is also a Catholic, being raised as such by her family.
