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Andrew Thomas McCarthy was born on the 29th November 1962, in Westfield, New Jersey USA, and is an actor, perhaps best known for appearing in the 1980s films “Less Than Zero”, “St. Elmo’s Fire”, and “Weekend At Bernie’s”. He has also appeared in TV shows, including “Royal Pains”, “White Collar”, “The Family”, etc. Andrew is also known as a director. He became an active member of the film industry in 1983.

Have you ever wondered how rich Andrew McCarthy is as of early 2016? It has been estimated from authoritative sources that Andrew counts his net worth at the amount of $10 million, with the main sum of it coming, obviously, from his successful career in the film industry. Another source is coming from his writing articles for a travel magazine.

 

Andrew McCarthy Worth $10 Million

Andrew McCarthy was born to a mother who worked as a journalist, and father who worked in the area of stocks and investments. The family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he attended the Pringy School, after which he matriculated from Bernards High School.

Andrew’s professional career began in the 1980 s, right after finished high school, debuting in the film “Class” (1983), with Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe in the lead roles, and two years later he was featured in the film “Heaven Help Us”, alongside such actors as Donald Sutherland and John Heard. During the 1980 s, Andrew made a few more memorable appearances in the Brat Pack productions – the ‘80s Hollywood group of young actors of which he became a member – such as “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985), “Pretty In Pink” (1986), “Mannequin” (1987), “Less Than Zero” (1987), and “Weekend At Bernie’s” (1989). All these appearances grew his popularity as well as his net worth.

He continued to line up success after success during the 1990s by appearing in films such as “Weekend At Bernie’s” (1993), “The Joy Luck Club” (1993), “Mulholland Falls” (1996), “I’m Losing You” (1998), and “A Twist Of Faith” (1999), among others, all of which added to his net worth.

The 2000 s brought new roles for Andrew, increasing further his popularity and net worth, by his appearances in such film and TV series as “Kingdom Hospital” (2004), “Anything But Love” (2002), “E-Ring” (2005), “Lipstick Jungle” (2008-2009), “Snatched” (2011), and “Main Street” (2011).

Most recently Andrew was featured in the TV series “The Family” (2016), and the film “Finding Julia”, which is currently in post-production.

Apart from his successful career as an actor, during which he has appeared in more than 70 film and TV titles, and winning several awards, including the award for Best Actor for his work on “Mannequin” (1987), Andrew has also been recognized as a director. He started his directing career in 2004 with the short video “News For The Church”, but since 2008 he has become more focused on directing, taking credit for several episodes of the TV series “Lipstick Jungle”. In 2010, he also took credit for directing several episodes of the TV series “Gossip Girl”, as many as six episodes through 2012.

Furthermore, Andrew has directed four episodes of the TV series “Alpha House” (2014), and several episodes of the hit TV series “Orange Is The New Black” (2013-2016), and most recently, he took credit for directing two episodes of the TV series “TURN: Washington’s Spies” (2015-2016), which have also added to his net worth.

Regarding his personal life, Andrew McCarthy was married to Carol Schneider (1999-2005), with whom he has a son. Later, in 2011 he married Dolores Rice, andthe couple has two children.



Net Worth $10 Million
Date Of Birth November 29, 1962
Place Of Birth Westfield, New Jersey USA
Height 1.75 m
Profession Actor, Writer
Education Circle in the Square Theatre School, Pingry School
Nationality American
Spouse Dolores Rice (m. 2011), Carol Schneider (m. 1999–2005)
Children Sam McCarthy, Willow McCarthy
Siblings Justin McCarthy
Twitter https://twitter.com/AndrewTMcCarthy
IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0000530
Movies “Less Than Zero”, “St. Elmo’s Fire”, “Weekend At Bernie’s”, “Lipstick Jungle” (2008), “Snatched” (2011), “Main Street” (2011), “Kingdom Hospital”, “Amazing Stories”, “Lily”
TV Shows Lipstick Jungle, Kingdom Hospital, Amazing Stories, Lily
Quote
1 (2011) I have a globe in my living room that I spend a lot of time spinning. It’s how a lot of ideas for trips are born with me. I look and think, what do they do there? And I go. Sometimes a patch of land looks interesting, the tip of South America, or the northeast coast of Brazil or the Tuamotu islands. And I go.
2 (2011) I like to travel with a very loose outline, a starting point and a finishing spot…maybe pick a few places in between and leave the majority open. I bought a ticket into Cape Town, South Africa and ticket out of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, for eight weeks later. I gave myself only the rule of no air travel in between. That said, I like to know several things I’m going to want to do in the first few days of a trip, it helps ground me there and focus. Then I can begin to follow my nose…Another way I like to travel is to pursue a quest — it gives focus to a trip that can prove really rewarding. I went to Tahiti with the intention of picking my own pearl from the sea. I met some really interesting people who were way off the normal circuit, and had a great sense of satisfaction and connection when I got it. It’s a place I feel I know better now than had I just been traveling there.
3 (2011, on traveling) When it comes to where I stay, it’s all location, location, location for me. Where I stay goes a long way toward dictating what kind of travel experience I’ll have. I enjoy checking into a fancy hotel, but after I’m there a short while I begin to feel claustrophobic, so if I’m paying, I never do. It’s a layer of insulation from the place I’m visiting that doesn’t make sense to me. I came to see Rome, not the Hassler Hotel. And I was never the hostel guy. I like a bit of space and privacy – and my own shower. I walked across Spain once on the Camino de Santiago – probably the most important trip I ever took – and they had refugios, hostels, along the way. I really didn’t enjoy them and found myself checking into small inns and guesthouses. I met fewer German walkers and more locals. But really, I love nothing more then spending the night in a tent in the mountains, I used to spend a lot of time in the Absaroka and Wind River ranges in Wyoming.
4 (2011) My trips aren’t as long as they used to be. I won’t leave my family for more then a week now, whereas I used to travel for a few months at a time when I was single. It’s a different kind of travel now, but nothing I ever did alone can compare with seeing the joy of my son burying himself in the Sahara desert under a full moon, or my daughter touching the back of a stingray in Fakarava. Everyone in my family, myself included, is a much better version of themselves when we get far from home…I have to admit. I’m a solo traveler at heart.
5 (2011) I find I’m just a better version of myself when I travel. I feel my place in the world in a way that I understand more, I feel closer to my humanness, I like people better. I love to discover things. I never come back from a trip not feeling like I’ve grown at least a bit.
6 You always have to keep thinking: “Where am I going?” Whereas acting, you’re always thinking: “What am I doing?” You don’t want to know where you’re going, you want to be right where you are.
7 In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you’re always thinking what next, what next, what next?
8 I thought I understood the story very well, because I’ve lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that’s in your head.
Fact
1 Is Left Handed.
2 Since the mid-2000s, McCarthy has had a second career as a travel writer for such publications as National Geographic Traveler, Travel+Leisure, Afar, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, Men’s Journal, and Slate, among others. In 2010, the Society of American Travel Writers awarded McCarthy their Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prize and named him Travel Journalist of the Year.
3 Writes articles for travel magazines.
4 Has a daughter, Willow (born 2006), with partner Dolores Rice.
5 Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s “brat pack”, along with Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy.
6 When the ending to Pretty in Pink (1986) was re-shot, all of the principal actors had to be called back. Andrew McCarthy had already lost a substantial amount of weight and shaved his head for a new role in a New York play called “The Boys of Winter.” Although he wore an auburn wig, he’s noticeably more gaunt in the reshot scenes.
7 Has worked alongside fellow actor James Spader in three previous films: Pretty in Pink (1986), Mannequin (1987) and Less Than Zero (1987)
8 Is an avid and competent pool player.
9 Has a son named Sam McCarthy, with Carol Schneider, born in 2002.
10 Ended up marrying his college sweetheart, Carol Schneider, 20 years after they first dated.
11 As soon as filming had finished for the movie Pretty in Pink (1986), he was signed on to play the lead in Less Than Zero (1987). As it happened, at the last moment, John Hughes (director of Pretty in Pink (1986)) decided he wanted to change the ending at the last minute (to what it currently is), but Andrew had already shaved his head for his next role. To solve this problem, Mr. Hughes had him don a wig for the last scene of Pretty in Pink (1986).
12 Brother of writer/director Justin McCarthy.
13 Started smoking during the filming of St. Elmo’s Fire (1985) (his character smoked). Has since quit.
14 He appeared in John Parr’s “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” music video.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Less Than Zero 1987 Clay
Mannequin 1987 Jonathan Switcher
American Playhouse 1987 TV Series Henry Hopper
Amazing Stories 1986 TV Series Edwin
Pretty in Pink 1986 Blane
The Beniker Gang 1985 Arthur Beniker
St. Elmo’s Fire 1985 Kevin Dolenz
Heaven Help Us 1985 Michael Dunn
John Parr: St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) 1985 Video short Kevin Dolenz
Class 1983 Jonathan
Finding Julia completed Mike Chamonix
The Family 2016 TV Series Hank Asher
Unforgettable 2013 TV Series Ari Sonnenland
Come Dance with Me 2012 TV Movie Jack
Snatched 2011 Frank Baum
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best 2011 Brian
White Collar 2011 TV Series Vincent Adler
Main Street 2010 Howard Mercer
Camp Hell 2010 Michael Leary
The National Tree 2009 TV Movie Corey Burdock
Royal Pains 2009 TV Series Marshall Bryant
Gossip Girl 2009 TV Series Rick Rhodes
The Good Guy 2009 Cash
Lipstick Jungle 2008-2009 TV Series Joe Bennett
The Spiderwick Chronicles 2008 Richard Grace
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2007 TV Series A.D.A. Gene Hoyle
The Way 2006 TV Movie
E-Ring 2005 TV Series Aaron Gerrity
Crusader 2005 TV Movie Hank Robinson
The Hollywood Mom’s Mystery 2004 TV Movie Kit Freers
Kingdom Hospital 2004 TV Series Dr. Hook
2BPerfectlyHonest 2004 Josh
Monk 2003 TV Series Derek Philby
The Twilight Zone 2003 TV Series Will Marshall
Law & Order 2003 TV Series Attorney Finnerty
Straight from the Heart 2003 TV Movie Tyler Ross
Georgetown 2002 TV Movie
Anything But Love 2002 Elliot Shephard
The Secret Life of Zoey 2002 TV Movie Mike Harper
Diggity’s Treasure 2001 Raymond Cane
Nowhere in Sight 2001 Eric Shelton
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 2000 TV Movie Robert ‘Bobby’ Kennedy
The Sight 2000 TV Movie Michael Lewis
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2000 TV Series Randolph Morrow
A Storm in Summer 2000 TV Movie Stanley Banner
New Waterford Girl 1999 Cecil Sweeney
A Twist of Faith 1999 Henry Smith
New World Disorder 1999 Kurt Bishop
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died 1998 Cemetery Cop
I’m Losing You 1998 Bertie Krohn
Perfect Assassins 1998 TV Movie Ben Carroway
Bela Donna 1998 Frank
A Father for Brittany 1998 TV Movie Keith Lussier
Stag 1997 Pete Weber
Hostile Force 1997 TV Movie Rabbit (Mike)
The Christmas Tree 1996 TV Movie Richard Reilly
Everything Relative 1996 Howard
Escape Clause 1996 TV Movie Richard Ramsay
Mulholland Falls 1996 Jimmy Fields
Cosas que nunca te dije 1996 Don Henderson
The Courtyard 1995 TV Movie Jonathan
Dream Man 1995 Video David Mander
Night of the Running Man 1995 Jerry Logan
Dead Funny 1994 Reggie Barker
Getting In 1994 Rupert Grimm
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle 1994 Eddie Parker
The Joy Luck Club 1993 Ted
Weekend at Bernie’s II 1993 Larry Wilson
Only You 1992/I Clifford Godfrey
Screen Two 1992 TV Series Martin Musgrove
Year of the Gun 1991 David Raybourne
Tales from the Crypt 1991 TV Series Edward Foster
Dr. M 1990 Assassin
Jours tranquilles à Clichy 1990 Henry Miller, AKA Joey
Weekend at Bernie’s 1989 Larry Wilson
Fresh Horses 1988 Matt Larkin
Kansas 1988 Wade Corey

Director

Title Year Status Character
Orange Is the New Black 2013-2017 TV Series 11 episodes
The Blacklist: Redemption 2017 TV Series 1 episode
The Blacklist 2015-2017 TV Series 8 episodes
TURN: Washington’s Spies 2015-2017 TV Series 3 episodes
Conviction 2016 TV Series 1 episode
Halt and Catch Fire 2016 TV Series 1 episode
The Family 2016 TV Series 3 episodes
Happyish 2015 TV Series 1 episode
Grace and Frankie 2015 TV Series 1 episode
Songbyrd 2014 TV Series 2014
Alpha House 2014 TV Series 4 episodes
Black Box 2014 TV Series 1 episode
The Carrie Diaries 2014 TV Series 1 episode
Gossip Girl 2010-2012 TV Series 6 episodes
White Collar 2012 TV Series 1 episode
Hart of Dixie 2011 TV Series 1 episode
Lipstick Jungle 2008-2009 TV Series 2 episodes
News for the Church 2004 Short

Writer

Title Year Status Character
News for the Church 2004 Short

Producer

Title Year Status Character
News for the Church 2004 Short producer

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Amazing Stories 1986 TV Series performer – 1 episode

Self

Title Year Status Character
Rachael Ray 2017 TV Series Himself
The Insider 2017 TV Series Himself
The Chew 2012-2017 TV Series Himself – Guest
Live with Kelly and Ryan 2008-2017 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself
Today 1989-2017 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself
Entertainment Tonight 2016 TV Series Himself
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf 2012-2014 TV Series Himself
Watch What Happens: Live 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest
Tavis Smiley 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest
Weekend Today 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest
Big Morning Buzz Live 2012 TV Series Himself
Don’t You Forget About Me 2009 Video documentary Himself
Gylne tider 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn 2003 TV Series Himself
The Rosie O’Donnell Show 1997 TV Series Himself
Intimate Portrait 1993 TV Series documentary Narrator
The Making of ‘Class’ 1983 TV Movie documentary Himself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Entertainment Tonight 2015 TV Series Himself
Diálogos de cine 2008 TV Movie Don
Biography 2007 TV Series documentary Himself
Banda sonora 2007 TV Series Don
100 Greatest Teen Stars 2006 TV Mini-Series Himself
Retrosexual: The 80’s 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary
Muppet Babies 1987 TV Series Blane McDonough

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2005 Audience Award Sedona International Film Festival Best Short Film News for the Church (2004)
1987 Best Actor Fantafestival Mannequin (1987)

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