Mindy Kaling Net Worth

How much is Mindy Kaling worth?

Net Worth:$30 Million
Profession:Professional Actress
Date of Birth:June 24, 1979 (age 43)
Country:United States of America
Height:
5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

About Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling is an American actress, producer, and writer who first became famous for her role as Kelly Kapoor in the American version of The Office. She has since become one of the biggest creators on TV, as she is responsible for the development of The Mindy Project, Champions, Never Have I Ever, and more.

Thanks to her squeaky and animated voice, Kaling has also scored major roles in animated movies including Despicable Me, Wreck-It Ralph, and Pixar’s Inside Out. Some of Kaling’s most popular live action movies include The 40 Year Old Virgin, Ocean’s 8, and This Is The End.

In 2001, Kaling graduated from Dartmouth college with a Bachelor’s in playwriting, and after that she had worked on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and even wrote and starred in an off-broadway play called Matt and Ben, in which she played Ben Affleck. It’s her writing skills that have earned her so much creative freedom with her work on TV and why offers are thrown at her to write sequels and adapt novels.

American actress, comedian, writer, and producer Mindy Kaling has an estimated net worth of $30 million dollars, as of 2023. Kaling’s rise to fame came through starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office.

In the mid-2000s, Kaling began scoring minor roles in TV and film, including Richard Lewis’ assistant in Curb Your Enthusiasm and in The 40 Year Old Virgin, which starred her The Office partner Steve Carrell and directed by celebrated comedy director Judd Apatow.

After impressing the cast and crew of The 40 Year Old Virgin, the movie was the first of many collaborations Kaling would have with Seth Rogen, as she went on to work with him in the comedies This Is The End and The Night Before.

Later in 2005, after working in the writer’s room, Kaling was thrown into the office as the bubbly Kelly Kapoor. She quickly became a fan favorite as the character cares more about celebrities than her coworkers and uses her Indian ethnicity to her advantage at any given opportunity. Audiences also loved her on-again, off-again relationship with Ryan, played by B.J. Novak, which was loosely based on their real life relationship as they both started in the writers room. Kaling starred in The Office for a huge 174 episodes.

The success of The Office afforded Kaling a ton of other opportunities, including creating The Mindy Project, which she also wrote and starred in for 117 episodes.

In fact, it has helped her earn roles in not just comedies, but even in dramas, playing an imitation of the beloved celebrity gossip obsessed character. She played a stripped back version of the character in AppleTV+’s The Morning Show, and The Mindy Project could very well have been called The Kelly Project.

Even in animated movies, Kaling’s role as Taffyta Muttonfudge in Wreck-It Ralph and Disgust in Inside Out are largely based on Kelly Kapoor. In fact, the creators of Inside Out were clearly influenced by more than just Kaling in The Office, as Phyllis Smith, who plays Phyllis Vance in the show, voices Sadness in the movie too. Kaling’s squeeky voice and the way she delivers lines with upward inflections has also helped her get a ton of animated work.

Though many people know her as the “annoying” character on so many TV shows and in movies, few people know that she began as a writer. Kaling has since become one of the most sought after writers in the television industry, as she has also gone on to create the short lived Champions, the TV adaptation of Four Weddings And A Funeral, and the Netflix original series, Never Have I Ever.

The latter was a huge success, as Netflix reported that it has been watched in 40 million households in the US alone and was praised by critics for South Asian representation in Hollywood and breaking Asian stereotypes. The writer also created the critically acclaimed indie darling, Late Night and has been hired to helm the script for the second Legally Blonde sequel.

Though she has a dominant presence on the small screen, she can also be seen in movies too, with her having a bigger role with each consecutive movie she’s in. Besides comedies, she has also starred in huge blockbuster movies, such as A Wrinkle In Time, and her biggest success at the box office was Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

Most recently, she starred in Ocean’s 8, which was an all female semi-reboot of the Steven Soderbergh movie Ocean’s Eleven. Kaling has also found major success in animated movies, having starred in several hits, most notably in the Pixar movie, Inside Out.

Kaling’s Total Net Worth

Though it hasn’t been disclosed how much Mindy Kaling’s salary was for The Office, that’s clearly where the bulk of her wealth came from, as she starred in close to 200 episodes and wrote many of them. For her The Office follow up, The Mindy Project, Kaling was paid a reported $140,000 per episode for it’s final season, and she even continues to earn money from syndication deals, as she is the creator and executive producer of the show.

Overall, from her acting work on TV, it is estimated that Mindy Kaling has earned $24 million dollars.

As Kaling has featured prominently in several movies, she has never actually been a lead actress, which comes as strange because many of her movies have made hundreds of millions of dollars. Though it might come as a surprise, the total box office intake of her movies comes to more than $2 billion. Ocean’s 8 made almost $300 million, Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian made over $410 million, and Inside Out made $850 million worldwide.

It is estimated that in total, from her work in film, Kaling has earned an estimated $7.5 million. In 2019, she sold her movie Late Night that she had written to Amazon Studios for an estimated $13 million.

A dream come true for Kailing considering she previously said while she was writing for The Office, “I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies.” It is estimated that she has since earned $23 million in total from her writing work.

Outside of TV and film, Kaling also owns 1% of the Welsh football team, Swansea City A.F.C., and she is the writer of two New York Times bestsellers, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) and Why Not Me?

Overall, it is estimated that Mindy Kaling’s total career earnings have been $54.5 million dollars. Of that amount, $5-6 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $49 million, will have been taxed at 49% as Kaling has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $24.99 million dollars, having paid $24.01 million dollars in taxes.

Kaling has two children but has chosen not to reveal the identity of her children’s biological father. In her personal life she has conducted herself well, has presence of mind and has not had a history of alcohol abuse or health problems, including mental instability. Rather, it is likely that Kaling has been carefully and considerately managing her wealth and that includes the management of her investments.

For any actor or actress when earning large sums they must learn financial skills. While some early investment losses are expected, after some time positive investment returns are far more likely to be the case.

While Kaling has made various real estate investments over the years, it is very likely that more of her earnings sit in securities. Kailing bought a Spanish bungalow in Los Angeles for $1.58 million, in 2007. She sold it in 2018 for close to $2 million. She had previously purchased a 5,000-square foot property in Los Angeles for $6.5 million.

In 2020, Kailing made a record real estate investment when she managed to buy a property in Malibu that was owned by Frank Sinatra. It was listed for $12.9 million but eventually, Kailing managed to acquire the property at a record low of $9.55 million. It had originally been purchased by the Sinatras for $3 million in 1990. It is a 5,800-square-foot property with a pool, beautiful layout, and even an elevator.

While she has done well in real estate, it is likely that Kailing has performed better with her securities. Stocks have rise by more than double on average since 2009 which is a likely time when Kailing would have begun to invest.

In her personal life Kailing has likely spent $2-3 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $1-2 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she has likely earned above average investment returns of $6-7 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Mindy Kaling has a net worth of around $30 million dollars.

Summing-Up

Kaling’s exposure to the TV industry is owed to her workaholic-like productivity as she never seems to put her pen down. Her fame has come from her creation of the now iconic character Kelly Kapoor, which has earned her so many starring roles in huge blockbuster movies. It’s thanks to this that the celebrated writer has an estimated net worth of $30 million.

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