What Is Kyra Sedgwick's Net Worth and Salary?
Kyra Sedgwick is an award-winning American actress who has a net worth of $45 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband of 30+ years, Kevin Bacon. Kyra Sedgwick has earned her net worth through her many acting roles in films, television, and video. Her first acting role on television was at the age of 16 when she starred in the daytime soap, "Another World." After that, she began appearing in films, made for television movies, and videos. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.
Kyra is perhaps best known for starring in the TNT crime series "The Closer" from 2005 to 2012. The series earned Sedgwick a Golden Globe for Best Leading Actress in 2007 and a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2010. She also won Satellite Awards for Best Actress in 2005 and 2006 and a People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Drama Diva in 2009.
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Early Life
Kyra Sedgwick was born Kyra Minturn Sedgwick on August 19, 1965, in New York City. Her mother, Patricia, is a speech teacher and educational/family therapist. Her father, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, made a living investing in business ventures. The actor Robert Sedgwick is her brother, and Mike Stern, the jazz guitarist, is her half-brother. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, and her mother later married Ben Heller, an art dealer. Kyra is a graduate of Friends Seminary and attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Southern California, where she earned her degree in theater.
Career
Sedgwick began her acting career in 1982 when she was 16, appearing as Julia Shearer on the soap opera "Another World." Her character was the rebellious teenage granddaughter of Liz Matthews. She played the role for one season, and after that, she guest starred on TV shows such as "Miami Vice" and "Afterschool Special." Her first movie role was that of Halina in "War and Love," and she went on to appear in a TV version of "Lemon Sky" by Lanford Wilson in 1988.
Throughout the nineties, Kyra gained popularity as an actress when she appeared in big-screen films like "Singles," "Something to Talk About," "Heart and Souls," and "Phenomenon." She starred alongside her husband, Kevin Bacon, in 1991's "Pyrated" and 2004's "The Woodsman." In 1992, she starred in the Emmy-winning TV movie "Miss Rose White." In 2003, Sedgwick played Mae Coleman in "Secondhand Lions" and then portrayed Stella Peck in "The Game Plan." She did voice work in the animated film "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman," dubbing the voice of Batwoman.
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From 2005 to 2012, Kyra starred in her most successful role yet: Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's "The Closer." She began earning $300,000 per episode beginning in 2007. Kyra appeared in 109 episodes of "The Closer." She was nominated for and won several awards for her role, including a 2007 Golden Globe award for her performance as a lead actress. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for work on "The Closer" in 2010. After "The Closer" ended in 2012 after the end of season seven, TNT announced that the decision to end the series was made entirely by Sedgwick. A sequel called "Major Crimes" continued in its place and consisted of mostly the same cast, minus Kyra. In 2015, she produced the TV series "Proof" for TNT, which lasted for one season. From 2014 to 2020, Sedgwick had a recurring role in the NBC comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," in which she played Madeline Wuntch. In 2019, she starred alongside Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, and Sebastian Stan in the Drake Doremus-helmed "Endings, Beginnings." In May 2020, Sedgwick landed the lead role of Jean Raines in a comedy pilot for ABC called "My Village." The series was retitled "Call Your Mother" and was then green-lit by NBC for the 2020-2021 season. Unfortunately, in May 2021, it was canceled after just one season.
"The Closer" Salary
In the early seasons of "The Closer," Kyra earned $150,000 per episode. For the middle seasons, she earned $250,000. By the end of the show, she was earning $350,000 per episode, which worked out to $7.4 million per season.
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Personal Life
Kyra Sedgwick first met Kevin Bacon on the set of the PBS version of "Lemon Sky." They were married in 1988 and have welcomed son Travis Sedgwick Bacon (born 1989) and daughter Sosie Ruth Bacon (born 1992) together. Sosie is an actress known for the 2021 HBO miniseries"Mare of Easttown" and the hit 2022 horror film "Smile." Kyra and Kevin discovered on the show "Finding Your Roots" in 2012 that they are actually ninth cousins once removed.
After Barack Obama's presidential win in 2008, the couple appeared together in will.i.am's video "It's a New Day." They have also starred together in the films "Pyrates," "Murder in the First," "The Woodsman," and "Loverboy."
Real Estate
In December 2011, Kyra and Kevin spent $2.5 million to buy a home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to public records, the couple also owns a 40-acre rural property in Sharon, Connecticut, which they bought in the 1990s. Furthermore, they own a large apartment with views of Central Park in New York City.
Kevin, Kyra, and Bernie Madoff
Kevin and Kyra were reportedly some of the highest-profile victims of Bernie Maddoff's massive Ponzi scheme. They reportedly lost a significant portion of their combined net worth from the scam, supposedly in the tens of millions of dollars, potentially as high as $30-40 million.
