Revealed: Fred Armisen & Career Highlights Net Worth 2026: Career & Total Wealth Update

As one of the most talked-about figures, Fred Armisen has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

What is Fred Armisen's Net Worth and Salary?

Fred Armisen was born Fereydun Robert Armisen on December 4, 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When Fred was a baby, his family moved to New York, and they later lived in Brazil. His mother, Hildegardt Mirabal Level (a schoolteacher), was born in Venezuela, and his father, Fereydun Herbert Armisen (an IBM employee), was born in Germany. Armisen grew up in Valley Stream, New York, where future "Saturday Night Live" starJim Breuerwas one of his high school classmates. Fred attended Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, but he dropped out to pursue a career as a rock drummer.

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Fred Armisen is an American comedian, actor, musician, writer, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Fred Armisen is best known for his work as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" (2002–2013) and the IFC series "Portlandia" (2011–2018). He co-created "Portlandia" as well as IFC's "Documentary Now!" (2015–present) and HBO's "Los Espookys" (2019–present), and he has served as a writer and executive producer on all three shows.

From 2016 to 2020, Armisen portrayed suspected murdererRobert Durston five episodes of Netflix's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," and in 2017, he began voicing Elliot Birch on another Netflix series, "Big Mouth." In 2018, Fred co-starred with "SNL" alumMaya Rudolphon the Amazon Prime Video series "Forever," and in 2019, he began starring on, writing, and producing the primarily Spanish-language HBO series "Los Espookys." In 2020, Armisen joined the cast of the Showtime series "Moonbase 8," starring as Dr. Michael "Skip" Henai alongsideJohn C. ReillyandTim Heidecker; Fred is also  a writer and producer on the show. In recent years, he has appeared in the films "The Little Hours" (2017), "Battle of the Sexes" (2017), "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot" (2019), and "All Together Now" (2020) and the television series "The Last Man on Earth" (2017–2018), "Superstore" (2019), "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2020), "Mapleworth Murders" (2020), and "Schmigadoon!" (2021).

Armisen played drums in a band with his high school friends in 1984, and he moved to Chicago in 1988 to join the band Trenchmouth. The band broke up in 1996, and Fred later played drums on tracks by Wandering Lucy, Les Savy Fav, and Matthew Sweet. Armisen made his acting debut in the 1998 short film "Guide to Music and South by Southwest," which he also wrote and directed, and in 2002, he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live." During his 11 years on the show, he impersonatedBarack Obamaand Prince and was known for characters such as Fericito, Nooni Schoener, and Ian Rubbish. Fred has made numerous appearances on "SNL" since he left, and he hosted the show in May 2016. While starring on "SNL," he appeared in several films, including "Melvin Goes to Dinner" (2003), "Eurotrip" (2004), "Deck the Halls" (2006), "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny" (2006), "Baby Mama" (2008), "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009), "Cop Out" (2010) and "Easy A" (2010).

Fred founded the website ThunderAnt.com, which features comedy sketches created with his "Portlandia" co-creator/co-starCarrie Brownstein, and he became the bandleader for The 8G Band, the house band for "Late Night withSeth Meyers," in 2014. Armisen released several albums with the Chicago-based punk band Trenchmouth, including "Inside the Future" (1993) and "Volumes, Amplifiers, Equalizers" (1995), and he played background drums for Blue Man Group in the '90s. In 2018, Fred released the album "Standup for Drummers," which earned him a Grammy nomination, and in 2015, "Smithsonian" magazine honored him with the American Ingenuity Award for Performing Arts.

Fred has more than 160 acting credits to his name, including the films "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004), "The Rocker" (2008), and "Staten Island Summer" (2015) and the TV series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (2013–2018), "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (2016–2020), "Forever" (2018), and "Moonbase 8" (2020–present). Armisen has lent his voice to numerous film and television projects, such as "The Smurfs" (2011), "The Lego Ninjago Movie" (2017), "Crank Yankers" (2003–2007), "The Looney Tunes Show" (2011–2014), "Big Mouth" (2017–present), and "Final Space" (2018–present).

Armisen guest-starred on "30 Rock" (2007; 2012), "TheSarah SilvermanProgram" (2008), "Parks and Recreation" (2009), "Up All Night" (2012), and "Kroll Show" (2013), and from 2011 to 2018, he starred on the sketch comedy series "Portlandia," which aired 77 episodes over eight seasons. In 2014, Fred appeared in the documentary " Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)," guest-starred on "Broad City," "House of Lies," and "Modern Family," and voiced Gustavo Calderon on six episodes of "Archer." In 2015, he began writing, producing, and starring on the mockumentary series "Documentary Now!" with his former "SNL" castmates Seth Meyers andBill Hader. That year he also hosted the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and appeared in the HBO movie "7 Days in Hell," the feature films "Addicted to Fresno" and "Staten Island Summer," and the documentary "The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead."

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