| Net Worth: | $4 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | June 29, 1964 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.65 m |
About Kathleen Wilhoite
In 1987, Wilhoite appeared in the leading roles of two different plays at New York City’s Second Stage Theater. These plays were titled Division Street and Moonchildren. For her work in the latter, the reviewer Frank Rich of The New York Times lauded her “frisky comic style” and compared her to “Shirley MacLaine”.
Wilhoite also provided the voice of Cathy Andrews in the CBS animated TV special Cathy (1987), which was based on the comic strips by Cathy Guisewite, and its two sequels, Cathy’s Last Resort (1988) and Cathy’s Valentine (1989). The show won a primetime Emmy for outstanding animated program, and Wilhoite’s performance earned the award.
The 29th of June, 1964 finds Kathleen Wilhoite making her entrance into the world in Santa Barbara, California. When she was a child, she got her start in the acting world by performing in plays with the Santa Barbara Youth Theatre. She received her undergraduate degree in acting from the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles after completing her studies at the University of Southern California.
In 1997, Wilhoite tied the knot with musician David Harte, and the couple went on to have two children together: a son named James and a daughter named Ruby. Wilhoite and Harte adopted a boy from Ethiopia and gave him the name Adu in the beginning of the 2010s. Wilhoite made her debut as Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz in the seventh and eighth seasons of the legal drama L.A. Law, which aired between 1993 and 1994.
Wilhoite’s Total Net Worth
Kathleen Wilhoite has earned estimated total career income of $7 million dollars. Of that amount, $500-600,000 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $6.45 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 44% as Wilhoite has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $3.61 million dollars, having paid around $2.84 million dollars in taxes.
Kathleen Wilhoite married David Harte in 1997 and they remain together. In her personal life, Kathleen is estimated to have spent $1 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $450,000, not including investment assets. Some of her career income will have been converted into investment assets, her returns from which are being estimated at $1.1 million dollars in value. Therefore, it is estimated that Kathleen Wilhoite has a net worth of around $4 million dollars.
She was cast as Chloe Lewis, a recurring guest character, on ER in 1994, and she continued to perform the role for the next eight years after that. She was honored in 1995 with a Q Award in the category of Outstanding Specialty Player by the Viewers for Quality Television for her work as a series regular and won the award for her performance. In the movie Fire in the Sky (1993), Wilhoite played the wife of a man who is abducted by aliens. She then went on to play supporting roles in the drama Color of Night (1994) and the survival thriller The Edge (1997), which starred Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
Wilhoite is a musician who has released two albums: the first one is titled Pitch Like a Girl and was released in 1997 by Daves’ Record Company. The second album is titled Shiva (2000, Ruby Ray Records). Her music has been featured in a number of movies, including the 1986 film Murphy’s Law, in which she also had a starring role. Her music has also been featured in the films Roadhouse (1989), Valerie Flake (1999), East of A (2000), and Touched by an Angel (2000), as well as the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Wilhoite performed the voice of the title character, Pepper Ann, in the Disney animated series Pepper Ann, a role she began portraying in 1997 and continued to do so until the series came to an end in 2000. She had roles in numerous feature films that year, including the dramatic film Pay It Forward and the dark comedies Nurse Betty and Drowning Mona.
In the early 2000s, Wilhoite appeared as a guest star on a number of television series, including Family Guy (2001), 24 (2002, and Will & Grace), among others (2003). Wilhoite began appearing as Liz Danes, the mother of Jess Mariano, on the television series Gilmore Girls as a guest actress in a recurring role beginning in the latter half of the year 2003.
Stop Yellin’ was a one-woman performance that Wilhoite penned and performed in May of 2006. Kathy Najimy was in charge of directing the production. The presentation included both autobiographical monologues as well as live performances of songs from her albums. After that, she appeared in a supporting role in the satirical comedy film King of California (2007), which starred Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood. During the latter part of the 2000s, she appeared as a guest star on television shows such as Criminal Minds (2008) and Grey’s Anatomy (2009).
After playing a supporting role in the romantic comedy Crazy Kind of Love in 2013, Wilhoite went on to play the lead role in the indie drama A Sort of Homecoming (2015). Also in 2015, she appeared in an episode of the comedy series Jane the Virgin as a guest star, and in 2018, she appeared in an episode of the fantasy series Kevin (Probably) Saves the World as a guest star. Beginning in 2018, she lent her voice to the character of Sue Peltzer in the animated series Summer Camp Island, which aired on Cartoon Network. The following year, she appeared in an episode of The OA, which is broadcast on Netflix. In 2019, Wilhoite appeared as a special guest on an episode of The OA, which can be found streaming on Netflix.
