How much is Candace Cameron Bure worth?
| Net Worth: | $5 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | April 6, 1976 (age 46) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 1 in (1.57 m) |
About Candace Cameron Bure
Candace Cameron Bure is an American author, actress, talk show panelist, and producer. She first gained national popularity for her role as D.J. Tanner in Full House, which she later reprised on the sequel Fuller House. She also got famous for playing the role of Aurora Teagarden from the novel series in the Hallmark Channel special film adaptation. Apart from these, Candace is also known for starring in Dancing with the Stars, Make It or Break It, and The View.
She was born on April 6, 1976, in Panorama City, Los Angeles. Her full name was Candace Helaine Cameron, which she changed after her marriage to Valeri Bure, a former ice hockey player.
She first began working as a child actor during her pre-adolescent years. Her first acting role on television was in 1982. She starred in five episodes of the series St. Elsewhere, where she had a recurring role.
Throughout the mid-1980s, she starred in numerous television series such as TJ Hooker, Brewster, and The Disney Sunday Movie. At that time, she also auditioned for the lead role of Small Wonder, however, that was given to Tiffany Brissette. Simultaneously with acting in the television series, Candace’s parents signed her to multiple acting classes where she could improve her skills and become better.
The actress and producer started to become rich in the late 1980s and early 1990s during her pre-teen and teen years. In 1987, she starred in Who’s The Boss? and Growing Pains. Also that year, she joined the cast of the sitcom Full House. In the ABC original series, she portrayed the role of D.J. Tanner, one of the main characters on the show. She spent eight years working on the show and took part in all eight seasons and 192 episodes of it.
1987 also marked the film debut of the talented actress who at that time was just 11 years old. The first film, in which she took part in, was the romantic drama Some Kind of Wonderful. The following year, she starred in another drama Punchline, which was a commercial success and we estimated was the beginning of her being able to live and work as a professional actress.
In 1996, she appeared in No One Would Tell.
In 2009, she joined the cast of Make It or Break It, where she played the main role of Summer Van Horne. In 2015, it was announced by ABC that Bure would become the co-host of the talk show The View, where she worked from 2015 to 2016. Shortly after she finished work for the talk show, Candace Bure reprised her role as DJ Tanner in the sequel of Full House, Fuller House. The Netflix sitcom aired from 2016 to 2020 and besides acting in it, Candice also worked as a director for the show.
Candace’s Total Net Worth
According to the Washington Post, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen earned a combined $2,400 per episode for the first season of Full House. Their salary was then increased to $25,000 per episode, before later increasing to $80,000 per episode. It is estimated that Candace Cameron Bure earned a total of $2.5 million from her role on the show.
Simultaneously with her work in Full House, she starred in multiple television films such as I Saw What You Did, Camp Cucamonga, Sharon’s Secret, No One Would Tell, Kids in the Woods, as well as She Cried and many others.
Most recently she appeared for 75 episodes in Fuller House and for 18 episodes in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries. From all of her TV work, including the appearances that she has made as herself, it is estimated that she has earned around $8 million dollars.
She has also appeared in film as well, movies like Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, The Christmas Contest, Christmas Under Wraps, A Christmas Detour, among others. Predominantly TV movies, they have not paid much. It is estimated around $3 million dollars in total.
Overall, Candace Cameron Bure’s acting career earnings are estimated to be around $11 million. Of that amount, $1-2 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $9.5 million, will have been taxed at 48% as Candace has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $4.94 million dollars, having paid $4.56 million dollars in taxes.
Candace Cameron Bure married Valeri Bure in 1996 and they remain together. They have three children together and their homelife seems good and healthy. Candace has written four books from which she has had some additional earnings, however it is being counted as negligible. She is a Christian and, other than suffering from bulimia nervosa in her early twenties, Candace has not had any other health problems made public.
It is likely that she is conservative with her finances, and not just in politics. Candace is a Republican and has likely kept her financial life in order. In charity, she is a supporter of Compassion International. The Bure family sponsors three children through the organization.
In her investments, it is likely that she has invested some of her after tax earnings into securities, and not just into real estate. In 2001, she and her husband purchased a property in Plantation, Florida for $1.38 million. They later sold the property in 2015 for $1.46 million, having lived in it. That same year they paid $2.36 million for a home in Malibu, California.
There will have been personal costs, miscellaneous costs, and so on, during Candace’s career. She has seemed to keep her finances in order however, and possesses strong family values that leads one to believe that she has invested wisely over the years.
In her personal life Candace has likely spent $1.2-1.5 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably posses assets valued at around $300,000-400,000 not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $1 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Candace Cameron Bure has a net worth of around $5 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Candace Bure remains one of the most familiar faces from the hit series Full House from the late years of the 20th century. Thanks to the classic, the actress received a lot of acting opportunities and starred in numerous television series and films. Since the mid-2010s, she’s had sporadic appearances on talk shows such as Today, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Tonight.
In addition to her very successful acting career, Candace Bure also became a talk show panelist, co-host, producer, and most recently an author. Starting January 2011, she released four best-selling books titled Reshaping It All, Balancing It All, Dancing Through Life, and Kind is the New Classy.
