Best known for comedy series, According to Jim, the sixty-eight-year-old actor, Jim Belushi, has been around for a very long time. One of his recent appearances on television includes his own reality series titled Growing Belushi, which follows the actor on his journey of maintaining, growing, and expanding his side hustle of growing cannabis.
The actor hails from Illinois and is known to have kick-started his career, much like his late actor John Belushi, with theatre work in Chicago. His first-ever appearance on television was through a comedy series called, Who’s Watching The Kids, which was released in 1978. The actor has appeared in quite a long list of sitcoms as both the main lead and as a guest appearance.
The actor also has a long list of movie roles under his belt, though he is most popularly known for his appearance in the late-night show called Saturday Night Live, Total Security, and Twin Peaks. Since the start of his cannabis farming business, the actor has more or less taken a break from acting, devoting his time solely to expanding the business and shooting the reality series, Growing Belushi.
The actor has revealed that he wishes to expand his business to an extent where he holds a significant market share and supply of the said herb. When asked why he chose to farm cannabis, the actor revealed that he wished to spread more awareness about the legalized version of the herb and its more positive uses.
Over the years of being in the entertainment industry, it seems like the actor has really done it all, from being in television shows to starring in movies to doing voiceovers for animated characters, to narration and commentary, and finally being both a supporting character to being the main lead with the entire room’s spotlight being on him. His expansive career and successful business must have definitely added immensely to his worth. Continue reading to find out what is the actor’s net worth.
Jim Belushi’s Net Worth
The actor-slash-comedian has been building his career since his debut series back in 1978, and as of 2023, his net worth stands at a proud $50 million. A significant part of his success has to be because of his successful acting career with shows like According To Jim, Saturday Night Live, The Man With The Red Shoe, Twin Peaks, The Good Wife and movies like Real Men, K-9, Guardian of the Universe, Ghost Writer, and so many more.
The actor has also had a pretty successful singing career, and at a point in his career, he even formed his own band called The Blues Brother, which got disbanded, but the actor brought together another similar version of the band called the Zee Blues, which is actually currently active. In May of 2006, the actor went on to publish his first-ever book called Real Men Don’t Apologise, a very controversial title.
With a number of significant awards like the Emmys, Screen Guild Awards, and the Golden Globes, the actor has maintained a strong hold on his position in the industry. It has also been revealed that the actor has been associated with a number of charity organizations like Safety Harbor Kids, Starkey Hearing Foundation, and Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
He is known to have established his first-ever weed farm back in 2015, and he stated that the reason why he got into weed farming is that his elder brother died of a drug overdose, and he believes that if his brother had been more into weed rather than cocaine, he probably would have been alive. He strongly believes that cannabis is highly medicinal if used correctly and should actually be encouraged.
Since then, his farms have only grown, and the actor has even created a documentary-style show for it, which aired on the Discovery Channel. Apart from his business and acting career, the actor is also said to have a fourteen thousand-square-foot home in California, which he bought for $38.5 million back in 2017. The house can be better described as a mansion with six bedrooms and eleven bathrooms, a built-in theatre, a huge swimming pool, a sauna room, and a completely separate space for the guests in a guest house also built on the property.
There is no doubt the actor is living a comfortable life, all the while working as hard as he can for his business.
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