Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor, and producer better known for his role as Mitchel Pritchett in the sitcom Modern Family (2009-2020).
He is married to Justin Mikita, an American lawyer. Let’s explore more about him.
Born on October 22, 1975, in Missoula, Montana Jesse Tyler Ferguson grew up in New Mexico. He is a cousin of Courteney Cox, who portrayed the role of Monica in the popular series “FRIENDS”. He’s also the distant cousin of Anthony Rapp and Adam Rapp. After he graduated in 1994 he joined The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City. Here he mainly worked for Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre. He first debuted on the small screen in Sally Hemings: An American Scandal in 2000. He famously worked in the role of an openly gay lawyer named Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family from which he got nominated for Emmy five times. He also gave voice to Shangri Llama in “Ice Age: Collision Course” a 2016 computer-animated film. To add, he has worked
Who Is Jesse Tyler Ferguson Married To?
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is married to an American lawyer, Justin Mikita. Besides being a lawyer, Mikita is also a producer, and actor known for Untitled LGBTQ+ Documentary, Welcome to Chechnya, and Island Queen. Jesse Tyler Ferguson use to have a relationship with at least two people prior to dating Mikita. Ferguson and Mikita met each other at the gym (Equinox) in West Hollywood. After that, they started to remain in contact.
They started dating in the latter days of 2010. In 2012, they together launched Tie a Knot, a nonprofit organization that supports the LGBTQ community. After two years long relationship Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita got engaged in September 2012. Later when marriage equality was passed, they got married on July 20, 2013, in Manhattan. They have a son named Beckett Mercer Ferguson-Mikita who was born on the 7th of July, 2020. They recently revealed that they are going to have another child this fall, however, the sex of the child is yet to be revealed.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Net Worth
The net worth of Jesse Tyler Ferguson is 25 million dollars which he earned from acting in TV shows, films, and stage productions. He used to earn a salary of 190,000 dollars per episode between 2014 and 2018. However, his salary was boosted to 500,000 dollars after 2018. In 2013, Jesse and Nikita bought a 4,926 square foot home with four bedrooms in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles by paying 4.55 million dollars. They bought this house from Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. In 2015, they owned a 900-square-foot NYC Pied-à-Terre. They bought it for 1.232 million dollars and later put it on the market for 1.495 million dollars three years later. Further, In 2018, Ferguson along with Mikita paid 3.052 million dollars to purchase a 1402-square-foot apartment in New York City. Recently, Jesse bought a home in the LA suburb of Encino paying 8.7 million dollars.