How much is Ben Affleck worth?
| Net Worth: | $145 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actor |
| Date of Birth: | August 15, 1972 (age 50) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.92 m) |
About Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck is an actor who has gone on to win numerous major awards for his writing and directing work. He rose to fame in the 1990s alongside Matt Damon and has continued to be as prolific and bankable today, as he was in the late 90s. “Batfleck” as Ben Affleck has been known in some circles since his Batman movies, first saw success playing Fred in Dazed and Confused. A movie with a multi-strand narrative featuring a fistful of up and coming actors who began to become recognized after the movie’s release.
It was in 1997 when people started to really pay attention to Affleck, as that year saw the release of three movies all starring the young actor. One of those films was Chasing Amy, in which Affleck starred alongside My Name Is Earl lead, Jason Lee. The movie became incredibly successful despite its low budget, and unlike films today where their first week in theaters is the most successful week, Chasing Amy’s box office numbers grew week on week.
Much unlike director Kevin Smith’s previous movies, Chasing Amy was a critical success and was even raved about by movie guru Roger Ebert. Of course, the most important release for the progression of Affleck’s career was, Good Will Hunting. A movie he co-wrote and starred in with his friend, Matt Damon. It was yet another critical darling, one that went on to win the fresh faced writing duo an Academy Award for “Best Original Screenplay”.
Affleck would go on to be one of the decade’s biggest actors, demanding massive salaries, and being the star of huge blockbusters such as Pearl Harbour, Armageddon, and The Sum Of All Fears, as well as remaining an indie-movie romancer in Dogma, Shakespeare In Love, and Clerks II.
For all of his well crafted and expertly shot crime movies he has written and directed, it is being an in-demand movie star that has made Affleck his wealth. Though it was unsuccessful at the box office, The Accountant earned Affleck his biggest salary at the time, $14 million. He consistently earns a guaranteed $10 million paycheck per movie, and he has been able to demand that amount for the big studio movies as early as the year 2000, when he took home $10 million for the movie Bounce.
2003 was one of his most successful years, as he starred in three films and banked an estimated $11.5-15 million per film, and that doesn’t even include the percentage of box office gross he would earned from Daredevil (2003).
Affleck’s biggest payday from a single movie shouldn’t come as any surprise. Ben Affleck starred as Batman, and has featured in more movies as batman than any other actor, he is no longer tied at three with Christian Bale. Affleck has appeared in four films as the cloaked vigilante.
Unfortunately, Affleck never got to don the outfit for his own adventure, as he plays Batman in a Superman movie, The Suicide Squad, and The Justice League. He is also set to appear in The Flash, in 2023.
Originally, Affleck was contracted to film a solo Batman movie, though it was reported that Affleck and the studio both had different ideas about which direction the movie should go in. At one point Affleck was even assigned to direct the movie, and given his track record for directing, including winning an Academy Award for his work on Argo, and his favorite genre to direct being crime, it would have likely been a great Batman movie. Despite only appearing in Justice League or films dedicated to other superheroes, as he will be in Aquaman 2, he has still earned tens of millions of dollars from the role.
On top of his multi-million dollar movie salaries, there is another way Affleck has made a lot of mone. He is a master poker player and regularly enters major poker championships, often taking home more than he entered in with. He was kicked out of a casino in Las Vegas for winning too much and allegedly for counting cards.
It seems hard for Ben Affleck to say no and sometimes his star power doesn’t always work out. He has had almost just as many flops as he has had hits. However this seems like a well concocted plan on Affleck’s behalf. It always seems like Affleck hedges his bets by starring in completely opposite movies at the same time, whether the difference is budgetary, genre-wise, or who he’s working with.
Despite having transformed his image and recently been playing the role of Batman. In the 1990s, he was figuratively the indie-movie boy wonder as he’d star in anything Kevin Smith would make and collaborate on a lot of movies produced by Miramax, a lauded independent film company. For several years, he kept working on independent movies, not forgetting where he cut his teeth. Even today, he still has a great working relationship with Kevin Smith.
In an on-screen reunion with Matt Damon, Affleck appeared in the historical thriller The Last Duel, directed by world renowned filmmaker Ridley Scott. As well as a director’s cut of Justice League, which after having been infamously talked about for years, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, was released in 2021.
Affleck’s Total Net Worth
Ben Affleck has been an incredibly high earning actor since the late 90s. In the early 2000s he earned $10 million dollar paychecks for movies like Changing Lanes. He also earned a reported $12.5 million for Gigli and has kept up paychecks of between $8-12 million ever since for leading roles, and overall, more for his role as Batman in terms of screen time. In total, it is estimated that Affleck’s career earnings are at $285 million dollars. That is, because he is also a filmmaker having produced almost 30 films and TV series.
Of that amount, $25-30 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $257.5 million, will have been taxed at around 50% as Ben Affleck has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that his career earnings are at around $128.75 million dollars, having paid around the same amount in taxes.
Ben Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005 and they had three children together, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth, Violet and Samuel Garner Affleck. When Ben and Jennifer Garner divorced in 2018 the settlement stipulated joint custody of their children and a “fair divide of their earnings”. Considering Ben Affleck earned so much more than Garner in the time that they were married, it is likely that Affleck walked away at $25 million dollars lighter. Four years later, Ben married Jennifer Lopez in 2022 and they remain together.
Affleck has invested no small sums of his career earnings into real estate. For example the $17.55 million dollars property he bought in the Pacific Palisades of Los Angeles with Garner in 2009. That property paid off too, they eventually sold it to Adam Levine for $32 million in 2018. The sale helped Affleck and Garner split their assets. It may have been more profitable for Levine longterm however, as he has since listed the property for some $57.5 million dollars.
That same year of 2018, Affleck purchased for himself a $19 million dollar property in the Pacific Palisades. He has also likely invested large portions of his wealth in the stock market, and other securities. Overall it is estimated that from his investments he has earned around $30-40 million dollars.
In his personal life, it is estimated that Affleck may have spent $8-9 million dollars of his career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $3-4 million, not including investment assets. Therefore, it is estimated that Ben Affleck has a net worth of a rounded up $145 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Ben Affleck is one of the few Hollywood heavyweights who has won an Academy Award in two different categories for two completely different movies. He won “Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen” shared with Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting (1997) and “Best Motion Picture of the Year,” for Argo (2012) shared with Grant Heslov and George Clooney.
He has several upcoming projects soon to be released, including Aquaman 2 and The Flash, where he will reprise his role as Batman in both films. He also recently appeared in a completely different film, Affleck demonstrated his flexibility in Deep Water, an erotic thriller co-starring Ana De Armas.
