Neil Fingleton was born on 18th December 1980, in Durham, England, and was an actor and former basketball player. With a height of 2.32 m he was the tallest human in the Europe, and played basketball professionally from 2004 to 2007. He passed away in 2017
How rich was Neil Fingleton? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth was as much as $2 million converted to the present day. Basketball and films were the major source of Fingleton’s net worth.
Neil Fingleton Net Worth $2 million
To begin with, the boy was raised in Durham, but matriculated from high school in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2000, after moving to the US to pursue a career as a basketball player. He won a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later to the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester. He graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree in History.
Concerning his professional career, it eventually lasted only from 2003 to 2007, when an injury forced him to retire. He played for the teams Boston Freazy from the semi-professional ABA league, and CB Illescas from Spain in the position of the centre. Afterwards, he moved back to his native city, and pursued an acting career. So, he was the first to appear in some television documentaries regarding the problems that he encountered because of his size. His first acting role he assumed in the film “X-Men: First Class” (2011) as a Russian bodyguard. Other film appearances followed, in “47 Ronin” (2013) and “Jupiter Ascending” (2015). In 2014, he played the role of Giant Mag the Mighty in the noted television series “Game of Thrones”, then in 2015, he took a role in the film “Avengers: Age of Ultron”. Overall, all the above mentioned engagements have increased the net worth of Neil Fingleton.
Finally, in his personal life, Neil remained officially single. Fingleton died on 25th February 2017 in London, England at the age of only 36 years – the cause of death was heart failure.
