Joel Grey net worth-American actor, photographer and singer, Joel Grey was born on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States of America.
Grey was born to Goldie “Grace” Katz and Mickey Katz. He shares the same parents with his brother, Ronald A. Katz.
He is most remembered for playing the Master of Ceremonies in both the 1972 film adaptation and the Broadway production of the musical Cabaret. He has won a Golden Globe, a Tony, and an Academy Award.
Additionally, he created the roles of the Wizard of Oz in the musical Wicked and George M. Cohan in the 1968 musical George M!.
In the Broadway revivals of Anything Goes and Chicago, he also played the roles of Moonface Martin and Amos Hart, respectively.
Joel Grey career
In the early 1940s, Grey began his career as a young actor in the Cleveland Play House’s Curtain Pullers children’s theater program. He made appearances in shows like Grandmother Slyboots, Jack of Tarts, and On Borrowed Time on their mainstage.
He began performing as a featured act at the Copacabana nightclub in New York in 1952, when he was 20 years old. Early in his career, he changed his last name from Katz to Grey to avoid the stigma related to having a surname with a clear ethnic connotation.
Grey had multiple TV western appearances in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Maverick (1959), Bronco (1960), and Lawman (3 times in 1960 and 1961).
Grey won a Tony Award in 1966 for creating the Master of Ceremonies role in the Broadway musical Cabaret.
In March 1973, Grey received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work as the Master of Ceremonies in the Cabaret movie from the previous year.
Although The Godfather won the Best Picture Oscar, Bob Fosse’s victory was part of a near-sweep for Cabaret, which also saw Liza Minnelli win Best Actress and Bob Fosse wins Best Director.
Grey won a Tony Award for his stage performance six years earlier, making him one of only ten individuals to have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role.
He also won a BAFTA award for “The Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles” and Best Supporting Actor accolades from the Golden Globes, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, National Society of Film Critics, and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
He has appeared at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri, in performances as Joey Evans in Pal Joey (1983), George M. Cohan in George M! (1970 and 1992), and the Emcee in Cabaret.
FILE – In this April 20, 2014 file photo, actor Joel Grey attends the opening night performance of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” in New York. Grey, whose show-stopping performance as the devilish master of ceremonies in “Cabaret” won him an Academy Award and a Tony, announced at age 82 that he is a gay man to People magazine, saying I don’t like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I’m a gay man.” (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)
In the 1977 performance of Platonov at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Grey portrayed the title role. Grey participated as a panelist on What’s My Line? during the 1967 season and served as the show’s first Mystery Guest in 1968 when it was shown nationally.
Grey has recurrent television appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as the wicked reptile demon Doc, 2001), Oz (as Lemuel Idzik, 2003), and Alias (as “Another Mr. Sloane”, 2005). Grey played Oldrich Novy in the movie Dancer in the Dark in 2000.
In the spring of 2011, Grey made a comeback to Broadway in the role of Moonface Martin in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Anything Goes production at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Additionally, he portrayed Ned in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart during its 1985 Off-Broadway run before helping to co-direct its 2011 Tony Award-winning revival.
Fiddler on the Roof was staged in Yiddish in 2018 under the direction of Grey. It was originally performed at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene before moving to Stage 42 Off-Broadway.
The show was an unexpected success, playing for more than a year, and taking both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical Revival in 2019.
How much is Joel Grey worth?
Joel Grey has a net worth estimated to be about $10 million.
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