Jenny Slate Biography, Age, Husband, Daughter, Ethnicity, Movies, TV Shows, Net Worth, and Career

Jenny Slate is an American actress, stand-up comedian, author, voice artist, producer, and writer from Milton, Massachusetts, who began her career early. She has established herself as one of the lead personalities in different professions, such as comedy, production, acting, and more.

When it comes to the country’s top voice artists, the first name that comes to our mind is Jenny Slate. The actress has done voice work in over 40 animated movies and earned several accolades. As for her appearances in films, Slate has worked in almost 70, and most of the projects became commercial successes at the box office.

From 2009 to 2010, Jenny was part of the popular American late-night show titled Saturday Night Live, in which she starred in the 35th season. Slate is best known for her work in part three of the short animated movie Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, in which she worked on creating, conceptualizing, and providing the voice for Marcel’s character. Later, in 2011, she published a children’s book with the same role.

The actress again came to the spotlight after playing the lead role of Donna Stern in the massive, critically acclaimed film Obvious Child in 2014. Jenny acted in numerous Hollywood movies in her career. Still, she rose to fame for playing characters in animated films and some of her blockbuster animated movies such as “Zootopia,” “The Secret Life of Pets,” “The Lego Batman Movie,” and “Despicable Me 3.”

Jenny Slate Biography

Name	Jenny Slate
Net Worth	$6 Million
Age	41 years old
Salary (Annual)	$500,000
Profession	Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter
Gender	Female
Zodiac Sign	Aries

Early Life

Jenny Sarah Slate was (born March 25, 1982), and was raised in Milton, Massachusetts, by parents Nancy and Ron Slate. Her father worked for the EMC Corporation as a vice president of global communications and CEO of a biotech/life sciences startup. At the same time, her mother was a housewife who also wrote some poetry.

Her dad also published poetry books such as The Incentive of the Maggot and The Great Wave and co-wrote for the 2016 memoir About the House. Jenny is the middle of three children. She grew up in a Jewish family alongside her older sister, Abigail, and a younger sister named Stacey.

Her older sister is a nurse practitioner in Massachusetts. In contrast, her little sister works as a Mental Health Counselor in Brooklyn, New York City. Jenny completed her studies at the prestigious Milton Academy, where she was a class valedictorian, and later graduated from Columbia University in 2004.

Slate decided to study for a degree in English and Comparative Literature from that University because it was located in the center of New York City. While studying at the University, she got help from an improv group named Fruit Paunch. She met her coming comedy companion, Gabe Liedman. 

Career

Slate teamed up with Gabe Liedman, and the two formed the comedy duo called Gabe & Jenny. Their first standup live show with Max Silvestri, Big Terrific, became successful and was named the best new variety show in 2008 by  Time Out New York. Due to their busy schedules, the duo quit performing Big Terrific in 2015.

Slate became a regular performer in 2008 and 2009 at her one-woman show, Jenny Slate: Dead Millionaire, held at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, United States. In 2009, Slate landed a recurring role in the late-night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sketch 7th Floor West. 

She then had a recurring role in the American comedy series Bored to Death. That same year, Jenny appeared in several projects, such as Important Things with Demetri Martin and Brothers, and entered the cast for a one-season of Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2010. During her appearance in the show’s first episode, she accidentally dropped an F-bomb.

In 2010, Slate became the co-writer for the animated short movie Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which received good praise from the audience. The turning point of her career came when Slate became the cast of the animated movie Marcel the Shell with Shoes on Two in 2011, and she followed it with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Three in 2014; in these movies, she voiced for the hit character of Marcel.

That was the same time when Slate starred in movies, including 2011’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and 2012’s This Means War, and provided vocals in the 2012 animated The Lorax. 

Jenny Slate started working as a voice artist in the 2012s film Bob’s Burgers, where she had the character of Tammy Larsen, followed her lead recurring role in the 2013 sitcom Parks and Recreation, as well as the comedy series House of Lies. The critically acclaimed film Obvious Child was released in 2014. Slate was produced and performed as Donna Stern, an actor in the film.  

She continued to appear in films such as The Longest Week as Jocelyn and the FX series Married as Jess. She also made her guest appearance as Bianca on the Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Slate gained further recognition for playing the voice character of Dawn Bellwether in the animated Zootopia, followed by her role as Gidget in The Secret Life of Pets.

These two animated movies have garnered over $1.024 billion and $8.75.5 million at the box office. The actress earned a lot of success from her role as Gidget, which she reprised in the computer-animated Secret Life of Pets 2 in 2019. In 2017, Jenny starred in movies such as The Landline as Dana Jacobs, The Palka King as Marla Lewan, and Aardvark as Emily Milburton.

In the same year, she voiced the character of Harley Quinn in The Lego Batman Movie. She worked in Despicable Me 3 as Valerie Da Vinci. She started providing vocals for the role of Big Mouth in the Netflix coming-of-age series Big Mouth, in which she also played several other characters.

However, in June 2020, Slate quit playing the role of Missy, stating, “At the start of the series, I supposed with myself that it was acceptable for me to play Missy because her mother is Jewish and white — as am I. Though Missy is also Black and Black roles on an animated series should be performed by Black individuals.”

Slate played the role of Morgan in the film Hotel Artemis alongside actors Jodie Foster and Jeff Goldblum. She then began providing vocals for the character of Miss Nanny on Muppet Babies. That same year, Slate played the role of Dr. Dora Skirth in the superhit Marvel movie Venom, which became massively successful by grossing over $856.1 million at the box office globally.

She worked as a producer and actor in the film The Sunlit Night and then starred in On the Rocks alongside Bill Murray and Rashida Jones in 2019. That year, Jenny voiced the films The Simpsons, Elena of Avalor, and 2021’s The Great North. 

In 2019, the actress released Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, her own Netflix standup special. She also starred in The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, The Lonely Island’s Netflix special. The Lonely Island is an American comedy trio, and they released the music video for Threw It On the Ground in 2009, in which Slate appeared. She was also featured in the 2019 “Oakland Nights” music video. 

Personal Life

On the 15th of September 2015, Jenny Slate and film editor and director Dean Fleischer-Camp married. The couple first met on the sets of different projects while Slate was a working actress in Brooklyn. In 2010, their relationship strengthened, and they moved to Los Angeles. After marrying in 2015, the two realized they were not made for each other and quickly divorced in 2016. 

During the film Gifted, Slate met actor Chris Evans in May 2016. The two were on-again, off-again relationships before eventually breaking up in March 2018. 

Jenny began her relationship with art curator Ben Shattuck, and the couple got engaged in September 2019. At the end of 2020, it was announced that Slate was expecting her first child with Shattuck. The couple welcomed their first daughter, Ida Lupine, in February 2021. Slate and Shattuck decide to get married on New Year’s Eve in 2021 in Massachusetts. 

Jenny Slate Net Worth

Jenny Slate is a multi-talented American actress, comedian, author, voice artist, producer, and writer from Milton, Massachusetts. With a net worth of $6 million, she is one of Hollywood’s most successful voice actors. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career.

According to reports, Slate has earned approximately $2 million in salaries from Netflix alone. Her main sources of income include movies, animated films, Netflix series, and business ventures, from which she has already accumulated a substantial sum of money. In addition to this, she earns a considerable amount of money from brand endorsements and television commercials.

In 2016, Slate modeled for the brand Day Space Night in Los Angeles and signed an endorsement deal with the clothing retail company Gap. With an annual income of over $500 thousand, Jenny Slate is undoubtedly one of the industry’s most successful and versatile entertainers.

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