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Tobey Maguire Net Worth and Salary: Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer who has a net worth of $75 million. Maguire is probably best known for his role as Spider-Man in three blockbuster films beginning in 2002. Director Sam Raimi’s three Spider-Man films preceded the current trend of blockbuster films based on superhero cartoon characters . The first Spider-Man film alone grossed more than $820 million, while Spider-Man 2 grossed $784 million and Spider-Man 3 grossed the series at $890 million. The success of “Spider-Man” made Tobey one of the highest-paid actors in the world in the 2000s, with individual film salaries routinely topping $15 million.
Family Life: Tobey Maguire was born on June 27, 1975 in Santa Monica, California. His entry into the industry came early, perhaps thanks to his mother Wendy, who worked as a screenwriter and film producer, but Maguire has said his original childhood ambition was to become a professional chef (his father Vincent worked as a chef). But when he expressed a desire to enroll in a home economics class in sixth grade, his mother paid him $100 to sign up for acting, wishing he’d follow in her footsteps instead. To put it mildly, the $100 paid off as Maguire continued even after he dropped out of high school and his well-known achievements in the acting field.
Personal Life: Maguire’s acting career began in 1989 when he was just 14 years old. In the years that followed, due to his boyish looks, he specialized in much younger roles, including appearing in a variety of television commercials, as well as programs such as Walker, Texas Ranger, Roseanne and the short-lived FOX television series Great Scott! During this early part of his career, Maguire became friends with a young actor named Leonardo DiCaprio, and the two struck a kind of professional pact to help each other with work. That pact paid big dividends for Maguire, starting with a guest spot on the 1990 TV series Parenthood, which starred DiCaprio. A similar cast dynamic was repeated in the 1993 film This Boy’s Life.
Maguire saw his star rise further in the mid ’90s and eventually landed a starring role in the 1997 Ang Lee film The Ice Storm (directed by Ang Lee). This led to other starring roles in films such as Pleasantville, The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys. He also had a supporting role in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam. A few years later, he got what would become his trademark role: Peter Parker, the teenage alter ego of the superhero Spider-Man. Other notable films Maguire starred in during this period include Seabiscuit (which he also served as producer) and The Good German.
After the Spider-Man series ended with Spider-Man 3 in 2007, Maguire continued his acting and producing work, including a memorable cameo in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder. In 2009, he featured in the war drama remake, ” Brothers, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe, his more serious acting effort. Then, in 2013, he reunited with his old friend Leonardo DiCaprio in the film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. In 2015 he played chess prodigy Bobby FIscher in Pawn Sacrifice, and in 2017 he sang a character in the animated film Boss Baby.
Personality: In 2003, Maguire met jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer on the set of Seabiscuit. They married in 2007 and divorced after nearly a decade of marriage. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter. The other major development in Maguire’s personal life came in 2004 when he discovered his talent for tournament poker, became a protégé of pro player Daniel Negreanu and won money at several events, even participating in televised World Series of Poker championships and the infamous ones high stakes games organized by Molly Bloom in the mid-2000s. If you’ve seen the fictionalized film version of these games in the 2017 film Molly’s Game, you may be familiar with some of Maguire’s behavior during those games,
Unsurprisingly, Tobey has made most of his on-screen salary earnings from playing Spider-Man. In 2002, he made a respectable $4 million playing the superhero, but he made significantly more for the sequels – in Spider-Man 2 he negotiated a salary of $17.5 million, plus five percent of the film’s gross box office. For the last installment, Spider-Man 3, he then received the slightly lower salary of $15 million, but with an even larger share of the backend, namely 7.5 percent. Another payday in Spider-Man’s realm was the $12.5 million he earned for Seabiscuit.
Real Estate: In 2019, Tobey Maguire spent a reported $6.9 million mansion totaling 6,526 square feet in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. In previous years, he also made other famous real estate headlines, listing a vacant lot also in Brentwood in 2018 and selling a small lot in Santa Monica to “Million Dollar Decorator” Kathy Ireland for $3.325 million in early 2017. And the year before that, he reportedly bought another piece of land in Brentwood “on a whim” for $13 million.
| Assets: | $75 million |
| Birth date: | Jun 27, 1975 (44 years old) |
| Gender: | Masculine |
| Height: | 5ft 8in (1.75m) |
| Job: | Actor, film producer |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
