| Net Worth: | $3 Million |
| Date of Birth: | Apr 3, 1986 (35 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m) |
| Profession: | Singer, Actor, Fashion designer, Voice Actor |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Amanda Bynes net worth: Amanda Bynes is an award-winning actress, fashion designer, and singer who has a net worth of $3 million. Amanda Bynes earned her net worth through various acting roles on television and in films. She is also the creator of her own fashion line “Dear” and has had a moderately successful career in music.
Early Life: Amanda Laura Bynes was born in Thousand Oaks, California, on April 3, 1986. Her father Rick is a dentist and her mother Lynn is a dental assistant and office manager. She is the youngest of Lynn and Rick’s three children.
Career: Amanda Bynes started acting when she was seven years old. Her first paid acting job was a television commercial for a candy called Buncha Crunch. She also appeared in the stage plays “Annie,” “The Music Man,” and “The Sound of Music,” among others, when she was a child. She was spotted by a producer for Nickelodeon when she was attending a comedy camp at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. She was cast in the Nickelodeon series “All That,” which ran from 1996 to 2000. She then appeared in the “All That” spinoff series “The Amanda Show” from 1999 to 2002. From 1997 to 1999 she was on the cast of “Figure It Out.” Bynes starred alongside Jennie Garth in the WB sitcom “What I Like About You” from 2002 to 2006.
Bynes made her feature film debut at 16 in 2002’s “Big Fat Liar.” From there Bynes starred in a number of movies in the 2000s, including 2003’s “What a Girl Wants,” 2006’s “She the Man,” 2007’s “Hairspray,” “Sydney White,” and 2010’s “Easy A.”
In 2009 and 2010, Bynes dropped out of a number of film projects, causing people to speculate that she was struggling personally.
Personal Life: Amanda Bynes appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July 2003 edition. She was named one of Teen People’s “25 Hottest Stars Under 25” in 2006.
Bynes dated Seth MacFarlane briefly in 2008. They met when she voiced a character on his animated show “Family Guy.”
In June 2010, Bynes announced that she was retiring from acting to focus her time on building a fashion and fragrance line.
She was arrested for DUI in April 2012, and four months later she was arrested again, this time for a hit and run. In this period Bynes was involved in four hit and run accidents. Her California license was eventually revoked. Not long after this, Amanda moved to New York City where her behavior continued to be notably erratic.
In July 2013, Bynes was detained by Ventura County sheriff’s after she allegedly started a small fire in the driveway of a stranger’s house in Thousand Oaks. She was hospitalized under a 72-hour mental-health evaluation hold.
In December 2013, Bynes enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Irvine. In 2018, she received her Associate of Arts degree in Merchandise Product Development and announced her intention to start a bachelor’s degree program. In 2019, Bynes graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles.
In a series of tweets in October 2014, Bynes accused her father of emotional and sexual abuse. Bynes soon recanted her accusation and went on to blame it on the “microchip in my brain.” She said her father was the person who ordered her to be microchipped. Not long after this incident, she announced that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In 2018, Bynes revealed that thanks to the help from her parents, she’d been sober for four years. She also apologized for everything she said on Twitter during the time she was using drugs and alcohol.
In December 2019, Bynes reportedly abruptly left her sober living facility and for a bit her whereabouts were unknown. Her parents allegedly rushed to court to ask a judge to force their daughter to return to treatment. In addition to fleeing the facility, Amanda was allegedly not complying with her court-ordered conservatorship, nor was she attending school. She was previously under close watch at the sober living home and required to participate in drug testing, obey a curfew, and help with mental health treatment.
In March 2020, Bynes announced her engagement to Paul Michael on her Instagram page. The couple reportedly met at an AA meeting, In March 2020, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. This post was later deleted and attorneys for Bynes confirmed that she is not pregnant. Bynes and Michael will need permission to marry because Bynes is still under a conservatorship.
Salary Highlights: At the peak of her career, Amanda earned between $2 and $3 million per year but that figure has diminished significantly over time.
In July 2013, Amanda’s parents sought court approval to take full control of their daughter’s finances through a conservatorship. Shockingly, her parents claimed that Amanda had blown through $1.2 million of her savings in less than a year and was homeless without a consistent source of income. They stated that Amanda regularly withdrew large amounts of cash from her bank account including $100,000 on both June 4 and July 2. They also claimed that Amanda recently hired a taxi to drive her from New York City to Los Angeles after she was unable to get on a plane because she did not have a driver’s license or passport.
In August 2018, paperwork was filed to continue her conservatorship until August 2020.