Michael Caine has a net worth of $75 million. The British actor and author has been in more than 150 films, which have grossed $3.8 billion at the box office worldwide. Having been nominated six times, he has won two Academy Award for Best Suporting Actor – for Hannah and her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999). He is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade with six nominations from the 1960s to the 2000s along with Jack Nicholson. He is regarded as a British film icon with his distinctive working class cockney accent.In 2000, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema.
Born in St. Olive Bermondsey, London on March 14, 1933 as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite to a Billingsgate fish porter and a charlady, Caine was an evacuee during the war. He emigrated to America in the 1970s but hankered for Britain and returned in the early 1980s. After a national service in Korea, he appeared on stage and TV before landing a starring role in Zulu in 1963. But it was in the starring role in the romantic comedy-drama film Alfie (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award) and later as Harry Palmer in the spy film The Ipcress File that he made his name in the movie industry.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1966 |
Salary |
Weekly salary from Hurry Sundown |
$20,000 |
|
1965 |
Salary |
Salary from Gambit |
$250,000 |