Who is Brian Boitano? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

Brian Anthony Boitano Wiki Biography

Brain Anthony Boitano was born on the 22nd October 1963, in Mountain View, California, USA, and is a former professional figure skater, best known for being the 1988 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist, as well as two times World Champion in 1986 and 1988, and U.S. National Champion between 1985 and 1988.

Have you ever wondered how much wealth this Olympic Champion has accumulated so far? How rich Brian Boitano is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Brian Boitano’s net worth, as of early 2017, is over $18 million, acquired initially through his professional skating career which was active between 1979 and 1988, and subsequently through involvement behind the scenes.

Brian Boitano Net Worth $18 million

Boitano was born to Donna and Lew, and attended Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale, California. His passion for ice skating dates back to the early age of eight, when he began taking skating lessons. Under the careful guidance of Linda Leaver, who remained his only skating coach during his career, Boitano debuted at the 1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championship in which he won te bronze medal. The following year he turned pro, and in 1980 won two more bronze medals, at the Grand Prix International St. Gervais completion as well as at the Nobelhorn Trophy competition, both held in Germany. These achievements provided the basis for Brian Boitano’s net worth.

In 1982, Boitano entered the history books as the first American who performed the first ever complex triple axel; later that year, he won another bronze medal, this time at Skate America international figure skating competition, and his first gold medal came later that year at Skate Canada International. At the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina nowadays), his first Olympics, Boitano finished fifth. This was followed by a gold medal at US Figure Skating Championships four years in a row, between 1985 and 1988. In the same period, Boitano also won several other titles, such as the St. Ivel International, NHK Trophy and Skate America as well as more notably two World Figure Skating Championships gold medals, in 1986 and in 1988. In 1987, Boitano introduced his new, signature jump “Tano triple lutz”, entirely invented by him. All these accomplishments helped Brian Boitano to massively increase the overall size of his net worth.

However, the biggest success in Boitano’s professional skating career occurred in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he won the Gold Medal, and later that year, he won his second World Figure Skating Championships gold medal. It is certain that these ventures dramatically increased Boitano’s revenues.

Shortly after these successes, Boitano retired from his professional career. However, due to a clause introduced in 1993 by the International Skating Union, also known as the “Boitano Rule”, which allowed retired professional athletes to return to competitions as “amateurs”, Boitano returned to figure skating. In 1994 Skate America he won the silver medal and earned his place at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway in which he ended sixth after which he permanently retired from his skating career.

In 1995, Boitano founded White Canvas Productions, which has created almost a dozen on-ice shows and specials so far.

Brian Boitano was a USA delegation member of the figure skating national team at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Apart from all those already mentioned above, Boitano has skated in several TV specials, including “Carmen on Ice” for which he was honored with a prestigious Emmy Award in 1990. In 2009, Boitano featured in “What Would Brian Boitano Make?” – Food Network’s cooking show in which, during its two seasons, Brian prepared meals for his friends. Besides all these, Boitano has released two books, “Boitano’s Edge: Inside the Real World of Figure Skating”, an autobiography released in 1997 as well as “What Would Brian Boitano Make?: Fresh And Fun Recipes For Sharing With Family And Friends”, released in 2013 in addition to his cooking show. Doubtlessly, these ventures have only helped Brian Boitano to further increase his respectable net worth.

When it comes to his personal life, Brain Boitano came out as gay in 2013, in order to scold Russian anti-gay propaganda just before the 2014 Winter Olympics. He is the co-founder of the National Safe Kids Campaign Entertainment Alliance and the founder on San Francisco based non-profit organization Youth Skate. He is also the Public Awareness Council of the American Cancer Society’s member.



Full Name Brian Boitano
Net Worth $18 million
Date Of Birth October 22, 1963
Place Of Birth Mountain View, California, United States
Height 1.8 m
Profession Figure skater, Actor
Nationality American
Parents Donna Jean Boitano, Louis Boitano
Siblings Mark Boitano
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/brianboitano
Twitter https://twitter.com/brianboitano
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092423
Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
Movies Blades of Glory, Carmen on Ice
Trademark
1 The ‘tano Lutz jump which is a variation on a Lutz
Quote
1 So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
2 Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.
3 The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
4 Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in ’88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
5 Plus the public’s attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn’t strike while the iron is hot… well it’s not like people will forget you, but they just won’t care anymore.
6 I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I’ve done after that is really because of the Olympics.
7 Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.
8 The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
9 That’s what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
Fact
1 On the Food Network with his own show, What Would Brian Boitano Make? (2009). [August 2009]
2 Has a niece named Natalie. She and her husband, Matt, appeared on What Would Brian Boitano Make?: Hawaiian Honeymoon (2010).
3 One of Brian’s favorite restaurants is “House of Prime Rib” in San Francisco, which he and his family have gone to since his parents were dating.
4 Good friend of Dorothy Hamill.
5 A song about him appears in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999). He actually skated to this song in Holiday Skating Spectacular (2000).
6 Gold, 1985 US National Figure Skating Championships
7 Bronze, 1985 World Figure Skating Championships
8 Gold, 1986 US National Figure Skating Championships
9 Gold, 1986 World Figure Skating Championships
10 Gold, 1987 US National Figure Skating Championships
11 Silver, 1987 World Figure Skating Championships
12 Gold, 1988 US National Figure Skating Championships
13 Gold, 1988 World Figure Skating Championships
14 Silver, 1994 US National Figure Skating Championships
15 6th Place, 1994 Olympics
16 Altered the Lutz jump by raising one arm over his head during the jump, and this variation is now called the ‘tano Lutz.
17 Won the Gold Medal in Figure Skating at the Olympics in 1988.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Blades of Glory 2007 Federation Judge
Nutcracker on Ice 1995 TV Movie
Nutcracker on Ice 1994 TV Movie
Carmen on Ice 1990 TV Movie Don José

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular Starring Barry Manilow 2007 TV Movie executive producer

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
Ice Wars 6 1999 TV Special choreographer

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag 2010 TV Series documentary special thanks – 1 episode

Self

Title Year Status Character
Good Morning America 2015 TV Series Himself – GMA Undercover Agent
The Chew 2013-2014 TV Series Himself – Figure Skater / Himself
Rachael Ray 2014 TV Series Himself
The Wendy Williams Show 2014 TV Series Himself
Katie 2014 TV Series Himself
P&G & Walmart Tribute to American Legends of the Ice 2014 TV Movie Himself
Oprah: Where Are They Now? 2014 TV Series Himself
The Brian Boitano Project 2014 TV Mini-Series Himself
Today 2003-2013 TV Series Himself -Guest / Himself
The Diplomat 2013 Documentary Himself – Figure Skater
Pandora Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice 2012 TV Movie Himself
Top Chef Masters 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest Judge
Caesar’s Tribute II: A Salute to the Ladies of the Ice 2011 TV Movie Himself
Rise 2011 Documentary Himself
Giada at Home 2010 TV Series Himself
Improv-Ice 2010 TV Movie Himself
Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
What Would Brian Boitano Make? 2009-2010 TV Series Himself
The Bonnie Hunt Show 2010 TV Series Himself
The Best Thing I Ever Ate 2010 TV Series Himself
Entertainment Tonight 2007-2010 TV Series Himself
Be Good Johnny Weir 2010 TV Series Himself
Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular 2010 TV Movie Himself
Pop Star on Ice 2009 Documentary Himself
Smucker’s Hot Ice, Cool Sounds 2008 TV Movie Himself
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons: Tribute on Ice 2008 TV Movie Himself
Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular Starring Barry Manilow 2007 TV Movie Himself
Holiday Celebration on Ice 2005 2005 TV Movie Himself
Ice Princess 2005 Himself
Biography 2004 TV Series documentary Himself
Intimate Portrait 2002-2004 TV Series documentary Himself
Kurt Browning’s Gotta Skate III 2003 TV Movie Himself
Ice Wars 10: North America vs. the World 2003 TV Movie Himself
Skating Spectacular 2003 TV Movie Himself – Skater
Ice Wars 9 2002 TV Special Himself
I Love the ’80s 2002 TV Series documentary Himself
Bud Greenspan Presents: Michelle Kwan 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself
World Ice Challenge 2001 TV Special Himself
Bank of America Celebration of Gold 2001 TV Special Himself
Michelle Kwan: People in the News 2001 TV Movie Himself
Fire on Ice: Champions of American Figure Skating 2001 TV Movie documentary Himself
Ice Wars 7 2000 TV Special Himself
Life and Times 2000 TV Series documentary Himself
Holiday Skating Spectacular 2000 TV Movie Himself
Ice Wars 6 1999 TV Special Himself
Winter Solstice on Ice 1999 TV Movie documentary Skater
E! True Hollywood Story 1999 TV Series documentary Himself
Holiday Skating Spectacular 1999 TV Movie Himself
Ice Wars 5 1998 TV Special Himself
Skate Against Hate 1998 TV Movie Himself
Skating Kicks Back 1998 TV Movie Himself
Jefferson-Pilot Financial Pro Championships 1998 TV Movie Himself
Skating Romance III 1997 TV Movie Himself
Ice Wars 4 1997 TV Special Himself (USA team)
Sergei Grinkov: Celebration of a Life 1996 TV Special documentary Himself
Skating Romance II 1996 TV Movie Himself
Battle of the Sexes on Ice I 1996 TV Movie Himself
Wide World of Sports 35th Anniversary Special 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself
Skating Romance 1996 TV Movie Himself
Artistry on Ice II 1995 TV Special Himself
Ice Wars 2 1995 TV Special Himself (US Team)
Skates of Gold III 1995 TV Special Himself
Skates of Gold II 1995 TV Special Himself
1994 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Competition and Exhibition Highlights 1994 Video Himself
Artistry on Ice 1994 TV Special Himself
Ice Wars 1 1994 TV Special Himself
Skates of Gold 1994 TV Special Himself
Christmas Fantasy on Ice 1992 TV Special Himself
An Evening of Championship Skating 1992 TV Movie Himself
Albertville 1992: XVI Olympic Winter Games 1992 TV Series Himself
Super Bowl XXVI 1992 TV Movie Himself – Halftime Show Performer
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 1990 TV Movie Himself
Brian Boitano: Canvas of Ice 1988 TV Movie Himself
The Official 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics Video 1988 Video documentary Himself / American Figure Skater Gold Medalist
The 14th Annual People’s Choice Awards 1988 TV Special documentary Himself – Co-Presenter: Favourite Male Performer in New Television Show

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
ABC’s Wide World of Sports 30th Anniversary Special 1991 TV Movie Himself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1990 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance in Classical Music/Dance Programming Carmen on Ice (1990)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2000 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Choreography Ice Wars 6 (1999)

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