How much is Selma Blair worth?
| Net Worth: | $4 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | June 23, 1972 (age 50) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 2 in (1.6 m) |
About Selma Blair
Selma Blair is an American film actress and producer. Her acting career started off in 1990 and soon, she landed roles in comedies and dramas that helped her gain national popularity. During the early years of her career, she starred in Brown’s Requiem, Legally Blonde, and The Sweetest Thing. Perhaps the film that boosted her wealth and popularity is the cult film Cruel Intentions from 1999. For the past two decades, Blair continuously starred in box-office hits such as Hellboy, Hellboy II, The Fog, and most recently After (2019).
Selma was born on June 23, 1972, in Southfield, Michigan. Her father worked as an attorney and labor arbitrator. She has three older sisters – Elizabeth, Marie, and Katherine. In the 1980s, she attended the Hillel Day School followed by Cranbrook Kingswood. She then studied photography at the Kalamazoo college, all in all, while she was acting in the Little Theatre of the Green Goose play.
In her early twenties, she was interested in becoming a ballerina and horse trainer, however, she eventually moved to New York and decided to pursue an acting career. She attended the NYU (New York University) and began taking acting classes at the Stonestreet Acting Workshop, Column Theatre, and Stella Adler Conservatory. In 1994, after transferring to the University of Michigan, she earned her bachelor’s degree and then double major in fine arts (as well as photography and psychology).
The actress began to become rich in the 1990s when she started acting professionally. She moved back to New York after earning her degrees and was discovered by an agent during one of her acting classes. She received a Screen Actor’s Guild membership in 1994 and began auditioning for different television productions. Her very first audition was for a cereal commercial, which she got. She then landed her first professional role in an episode of The Adventures of Pete and Pete in 1995.
Towards the late 1990s, after landing more and more roles in films and series, Blair received her first main role in television series. In 1999, she joined the cast of Zoe, Duncan, Jack, and Jane, where she played the role of Zoe Bean. Among some of her early film roles are in Brain Candy, Arresting Gena, In and Out, Girl, and I Can Hardly Wait.
In 2005, at the very peak of her career, Blair joined the cast of the superhero film Hellboy as Liz Sherman. The film accumulated $55.1 million at the box-office and became a worldwide hit. However it also cost $50 million to make and so wasn’t as such a good show for the producers. She then reprised her role in the sequels Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron. Towards the late 2000s and early 2010s, the actress also landed main roles in the series Kath and Kim and Anger Management. Her most successful roles in the past decade are in the films Columbus Circle, After, and After We Collided.
In 1999, she starred in the cult film Cruel Intentions, which became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. Thanks to the success of the teen romantic drama, she gained national popularity and earned a lot more acting roles. In the early 2000s, while starring in television series such as Xena: Warrior Princess, and Coast to Coast, she landed roles in box-office hits – Legally Blonde, Highway, and The Sweetest Thing.
Blair’s Total Net Worth
Selma Blair’s biggest movies that she has appeared in are Hellboy, Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions and The Sweetest Thing among others. In total, it is estimated that Blair’s career earnings are $8 million dollars.
On average, over her 27 year career (1995-2022), Selma Blair has earned $296,000 per year. That would make her effective tax rate about 25% for federal income tax and at about 10% for California state tax, with an overall effective tax rate of about 35%. However, Blair’s earnings in some years have been higher than in others. It seems most likely that she has paid about 44% tax on her earnings because of some high earnings years.
Of her $8 million dollar earnings amount, $800,000-1 million will have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $7.1 million, will have been taxed at 44% as Blair has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $3.98 million dollars, having paid $3.12 million dollars in taxes.
Selma Blair married Ahmet Zappa between the years of 2004 and 2006. She also has one child with Jason Bleick. In her personal life it seems that she will have had quite high costs after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018. Her diagnosis explained disabilities that she had been experiencing, including her occasional falling, dropping things, foggy memory. It is unclear if these symptoms have affected her managing of her finances. She has continued to appear in film and on TV since her diagnosis.
Blair has been successful in real estate, not just in cinema and on TV. In 2001, she purchased a West Hollywood, California property for $645,000 and sold it four years later for $1.2 million in 2005. She has also successfully bought and sold another property, purchased as $1.3 million, Blair later sold it for $1.7 million.
In her personal life Blair has likely spent $750,000 of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $300,000, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $650,000. Therefore, it is estimated that Selma Blair has a net worth of about $4 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Selma Blair is a successful actress, who most recently became a producer. She started her career in the 1990s and quickly earned several awards, including an MTV Movie Award, Young Hollywood Award, and Operation Smile. In 2010, at the peak of her career, she released her own audiobook titled The Diary of Anne Frank. The book was released in 2010 and earned her a nomination for a Grammy Award. Apart from her incredible acting skills, in the past few years, Selma has been highly praised for being an advocate for various charities and causes. Among some of them are H&M’s Fashion Against AIDS, Marc Jacobs’ Skin Cancer Awareness, and Bulgari’s Save the Chidden to name a few.
