Jaime Elizabeth Pressly was born on 30 July 1977, in Kinston, North Carolina, USA, and is a model and an actress, probably best known for playing the role of Joy Turner in the NBC series “My Name Is Earl”, as the role has won her an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. She’s also been in films such as “Joe Dirt” and “I Love You, Man”. All of her efforts have helped in lifting her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Jaime Pressly? As of early-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $20 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actress. She reportedly earns $75,000 per episode from her current television show “Mom”. Jaime has worked in film and television and has also done a lot of modelling work. All of these have helped in securing her current wealth.
Jaime Pressly Net Worth $20 Million
Early in her life, Jaime focused a lot on dancing and gymnastics, while attending Kinston High School. At the young age of 14, she was already modelling, and appeared in Teen Magazine, which gave her the opportunity to become the spokes-model of the International Cover Model Search, travelling around countries including the United States, Japan and Italy.
One of Pressly’s first films would be “Poison Ivy: The New Seduction” which was released in 1997. She would then do various television series such as “Push” and “Mortal Kombat: Conquest”. Afterwards, she was seen in the drama show “Jack and Jill”, before appearing in the indie film “Poor White Trash” portraying Sandy Lake. She continued doing work in films including “Torque” and “Not Another Teen Movie”. Around this time, her modelling work was also increasing, and she even became a spokes-model for Liz Claiborne. She was featured in a lot of magazines and was also appearing in a lot of “Sexiest Women” lists.
From then on, Jaime started making guest appearances and taking roles in various television shows, including the hit series “Charmed”. She was also seen in the series “Punk’d”, “The Twilight Zone” and “Night Man”. In 2005, she was cast in the series “My Name Is Earl” which would put her in the spotlight for her award winning performance. She produced and starred in the 2005 film “Death to the Supermodels”, and also hosted “Saturday Night Live” during 2006. For her latest work, she’s seen in the film “A Haunted House 2”, and the sitcom “Mom”.
Jaime has also worked in music videos, appearing in “The Space Between” by the Dave Matthews Band, Aerosmith’s “Girls of Summer”, and “Tainted Love” by Marilyn Manson. She was also seen in a performance of the song “Fever” by The Pussycat Dolls.
For her personal life, she dated DJ Eric Calvo during 2004 and they were engaged in 2006 following Pressly’s pregnancy, which produced a son. They separated in 2008, and a year after she would be engaged to lawyer Simran Singh. They married in September 2009 but she filed for divorce two years later citing irreconcilable differences. Aside from that, Jaime’s mentioned in an interview that she nearly purchased a ticket for one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
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