How much is Emily Blunt worth?
| Net Worth: | $70 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | February 23, 1983 (age 39) |
| Country: | London, United Kingdom |
| Height: | 5 ft 7 in (1.71 m) |
About Emily Blunt
Born 23rd February 1983 in Wandsworth, London, Emily Blunt is a British-American actress best known for her roles in A Quiet Place, The Devil Wears Prada, and Edge of Tomorrow, as well as many others. Her acting debut came in 2001 when starring in a stage production of the Royal Family, and three years later made her big-screen appearance in the 2004 movie My Summer of Love.
As well as the big screen, Emily Blunt has made appearances on several TV shows, including Foyles War, Poirot, and the TV mini-series, Empire. She’s been nominated for two British Academy Awards and the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Emily Blunt became a dual citizen in August 2015 after becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States, stating it helped her with her tax situation.
Blunt had a three-year relationship with singer-songwriter Michael Buble from 2005 to 2008 and started dating American actor John Krasinski after the split. The couple tied the knot on July 10, 2010. They reside in New York City with their two daughters.
Blunt’s performance in My Summer of Love, which was her feature film debut, didn’t go unnoticed. The director of the British drama film stating that both Emily and her co-star Natalie Press, were “very different and very original, something which is very rare nowadays.”
Blunt won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Natasha in Gideon’s Daughter, where she played the troubled daughter of New Labour spin doctor, Gideon Warner. She won the award for the best-supporting actress, with the show receiving incredibly high praise for its overall sterling performances.
Commercial success followed with the release of, The Devil Wears Prada, where the British-American actress played the role of Emily, an assistant to the editor in chief of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep. The 2006 comedy-drama grossed $326.7 million.
Although Meryl Streep unsurprisingly drew the majority of attention, Emily Blunt was certainly not overlooked, with one critic stating, she had many of the best lines and stole every scene she was in. Her reputation continued to rise with roles in a further four films in 2007, starting with the supernatural horror Wind Chill, the romantic drama, The Jane Austen Book Club, followed by Dan in Real Life, a romantic comedy, and lastly, the biographical comedy-drama, Charlie Wilson’s War.
Her nomination for “Best Actress”, in the British Independent Film Awards for her role in The Young Victoria in 2009, where she portrayed the young Victoria, showed just how far this versatile actress had come in such a short period of time. “I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young,” Emily Blunt has said.
Blunt could well have taken her first steps into the realms of Marvel comic movies when she was chosen for the role of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2. Unable to accept the part because of her conflicting schedule with her role in Gullivers Travels, Scarlett Johansson stepped in.
Maybe not a wise decision, as Iron Man 2 fared considerably better with film critics, and grossed $623.9 million dollars. Gullivers Travels wasn’t the only movie of Emily was in that got ravaged by the critics. The horror flick, The Wolfman, took an even more severe battering, with the Los Angeles Times calling it, “one of the biggest box office flops of all time”.
However her next movie, The Adjustment Bureau, put her back in the comfort of warm applause, with critics praising her and co-star Matt Damon for their on-screen chemistry.
Another role presented itself from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, again rejected by Emily, as she turned down the role of Agent Peggy Carter in Captain America The First Avenger.
The 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow, saw Emily Blunt take the Kick Ass Award for “Best Female Action Star”. Playing Sergeant Rita Vrataski, a special forces warrior with the task of training a public relations officer. The film was both a critical and commercial success, which was especially pleasing to the actress, who trained for three months for the role, concentrating on everything from weights to sprints and gymnastics to yoga.
The best actress in a Leading Role Award nomination for her portrayal of Rachael in The Girl on the Train in 2017, was bettered in the 2018 horror film, A Quiet Place, where she took the honors by winning the award for, Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
The sequel to the movie A Quiet Place Part II was released in of 2020.
Blunt’s Total Net Worth
The British-American actress is estimated to have had career earnings of some $125 million, a number that is on the rise along with her reputation as one of the most liked, and riches, actresses. The star seems to attract roles in some major box-office successes. For example the 2014 movie, Edge of Tomorrow, which grossed more than $370.5 million.
She often battles complex roles and has said, “The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that’s what humans are like – quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.”
A Quiet Place had box office earnings of $350.3 million worldwide, and the American comedy The Devil Wears Prada was close on its tail, raking in $326.7 million. It’s reported that Emily Blunt was paid between an estimated $12 and $13 million for her role in A Quiet Place 2, alone. Making her one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, earning $23 million between 2020 and 2021.
While Emily Blunt has appeared in some TV series, she has earned an almost negligible amount for her appearances in them. In fact, almost all of Blunt’s $125 million career earnings have come from her appearances in film, with also some earnings from appearances made as herself.
Of that amount, $10-12 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $114 million, will have been taxed at 47% as Blunt has been residing between the state of California, New York and in London, England. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $60.42 million dollars, having paid $53.58 million dollars in taxes.
Emily Blunt married John Krasinski in 2010 and they remain together. Their homelife seems stable and they have daughters, Hazel and Violet. In her personal life things have been steady, she became a dual citizen when she naturalized to the United States, in 2015. She said that she felt “conflicted” over the move and no longer having sole allegiance to the United Kingdom. However, that it has helped her “tax situation”.
Emily Blunt is certainly not a quitter, in fact she has spoken openly on the subject. “People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything,” she has said. It is likely that she has put in similar efforts into her financial life and into the managing of her finance, as she has into her acting career.
She has invested in real estate, and it is very likely that she has also put money into various. With her husband John Krasinski, Blunt sold a $6.5 million property in Hollywood Hills home to Kendall Jenner in 2016. They then purchased a 6-bedroom townhouse in Brooklyn for $6 million and invested over $250,000 on renovations that same year. In 2017, they sold a 5-acre property in Ojai, California for $2.4 million. Then in 2018 they sold their Brooklyn townhouse for $6.5 million but stayed in Brooklyn, buying one entire level of a Brooklyn condominium for $11 million.
In her personal life Blunt has likely spent $4-5 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $2-3 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $10-13 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Emily Blunt has a net worth of about $70 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Some might say she was insane for turning down roles in two Marvel movies, but it doesn’t seem to have done her any harm. It’s surely only a matter of time before this British born actress walks down the red carpet on Oscars night, and returns home with an Academy Award.
