| Net Worth: | $14 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | October 11, 1968 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.64 m |
About Jane Krakowski
Krakowski was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role as Elaine Vassal, an office assistant, in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal, which she portrayed from 1997 to 2002. Her breakthrough role on the small screen came in 1984 when she was cast as Theresa Rebecca “T.R.” Kendall on the NBC soap opera Search for Tomorrow, which ran from the beginning of the NBC Daytime block until its cancellation on December 26, 1986. Two years in a row, in 1986 and 1987, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her performance in this role. Among her many cameos are a 1981 TV commercial for the computer game Solar Fox and a 1996 appearance on Early Edition as Dr. Handleman.
After her film debut, National Lampoon’s Vacation, in 1983, Krakowski participated in Fatal Attraction, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (where she played Betty Rubble), Marci X, Alfie, Go, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Dance with Me and Stepping Out. It was in the 1987 Broadway production of Starlight Express that she made her debut as Dinah the Dining Car. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her role as Flaemmchen, a typewriter and aspiring actress, in the 1989 Broadway musical Grand Hotel.
Jane Krakowski was born in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, to Barbara (Benoit), a college theater lecturer, and Edward Krajkowski, a chemical engineer. Her father was of Polish ethnicity while her mother has French-Canadian and Scottish ancestry. Krakowski spent most of her childhood involved in the local theater scene thanks to her parents’ involvement; she has said of them, “Instead of hiring baby sitters, they brought me along with them.”
Jane Krakowski’s Total Net Worth
Jane Krakowski has earned estimated total career income of $25 million dollars. Of that amount, $2-3 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $22.5 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 43% as Jane Krakowski has been residing in the state of New York. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $12.825 million dollars, having paid around $9.675 million dollars in taxes.
In her personal life, Jane Krakowski is estimated to have spent $2-3 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $1 million, not including investment assets. Some of her career income will have been converted into investment assets, her returns from which are being estimated at $3 million dollars in value. Therefore, it is estimated that Jane Krakowski has a net worth of around $14 million dollars.
She started ballet classes when she was four, but she eventually stopped taking them since her body wasn’t suited for ballet. She graduated from Parsippany High School before moving on to New York City’s Professional Children’s School and Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.
In 1995, she played the ditzy flight attendant April in the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Company. Alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, she co-starred in the 1996 Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress.
. She earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carla in the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine. In 2005, she performed as Miss Adelaide in Michael Grandage’s West End version of Guys and Dolls at London’s Piccadilly Theatre. Krakowski got the 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance.
Krakowski’s role as Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock began in 2006, and she remained a regular on the program ever since. Krakowski participated in a January 2007 workshop performance and backers’ audition for a Broadway musical version of the 1980 film Xanadu, including music from the film’s soundtrack and a script by Douglas Carter Beane. Xanadu premiered on Broadway in Summer 2007, albeit Krakowski’s role is portrayed by Kerry Butler.
In 2008, Krakowski performed as Lola in New York City Center’s production of Damn Yankees starring Sean Hayes and Cheyenne Jackson. Krakowski became engaged to Robert Godley in 2009. Bennett Robert Godley, their son, was born in April 2011. A breakup between the two occurred in 2013.
In a reading at Playwrights Horizons on July 30 and 31, 2009, Krakowski portrayed the title role in Mrs. Sharp, a musical with music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver and a book by Kirsten A. Guenther. She was seen in the Broadway revival of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s She Loves Me, produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, in which she portrayed Ilona Ritter.
Studio 54 hosted the world premiere of the musical on March 17, 2016. In 2016, Krakowski was honored with the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. She also received a nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the Tony Awards.
Fox confirmed the series revival of the classic 1950s game show Name That Tune on November 18, 2020. Jane Krakowski will be hosting, and Randy Jackson, a judge on American Idol, will be leading the band. When it premieres on January 6, 2021, it will join Beat Shazam, another Fox series with a similar premise, in the Wednesday night slot with the Masked Singer spin-off The Masked Dancer.
The Daily Mail reported in January 2021 that Krakowski dated My Pillow co-creator Mike Lindell for nine months, from late 2019 until the summer of 2020. Krakowski and Lindell both said the claim was false, and Lindell even sued the Daily Mail for libel over it. The court ruled that the defamation claim should be dropped since no “reasonable person” could take offense to the statements made in the Daily Mail article.
Summing-Up
In 2003, Jane won a Tony Award for her performance as the sexy “Carla” in the Broadway musical “Nine” in which she starred alongside Antonio Banderas. She won both the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics’ Circle for her performance. In addition, Krakowski co-stars with Jude Law in Alfie (2004), a remake of the classic 1966 picture. The Pretty Persuasion (2005) film, in which Krakowski co-starred with Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods, has wrapped production. In addition to her role as Betty Rubble in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), her other recent film credits include When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003), Go (1999), Dance with Me (1998), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996), Stepping Out (1991), Fatal Attraction (1987), and National Lampoon’s Vacation (1989). During her time as “Elaine Vassal” on Ally McBeal, Jane was nominated for a Golden Globe (1997).
