What is Matthew Fox's Net Worth?
Matthew Fox is an American actor who has a net worth of $4 million. Matthew Fox best known for his performances as Charlie Salinger on the teen drama series "Party of Five" and as Jack Shephard on the mystery drama "Lost." For the latter role, he received both Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. On the big screen, Fox has starred in such movies as "We Are Marshall," "Alex Cross," and "Bone Tomahawk."
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Matthew Fox was born in 1966 in Abington, Pennsylvania to Loretta, a teacher, and Francis, who worked as a consultant for an oil company before becoming a rancher. Fox is of partial Italian ancestry on his mother's side, and is of English descent on his father's. He has an older brother named Francis Jr. and a younger brother named Bayard. When Fox was around a year old, the family moved to Crowheart, Wyoming, located on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As a young adult, Fox went to Deerfield Academy, an elite coed preparatory school in Massachusetts. After graduating in 1984, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York City, where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics in 1989.
At the age of 25 in 1992, Fox made his acting debut in an episode of the NBC sitcom "Wings." The same year, he landed a starring role on the short-lived CBS series "Freshman Dorm."
Television Career
Following his 1992 debut, Fox had a supporting role in an episode of the anthology series "CBS Schoolbreak Special." In 1994, he landed his biggest role yet on the Fox teen drama "Party of Five," playing the eldest of five siblings who lose their parents in a car crash. The show ran for six seasons, and co-starred actors Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert, Paula Devicq, Scott Grimes, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, among others. "Party of Five" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series, Drama in 1996. During his time on the show, Fox also appeared in the 1999 television movie "Behind the Mask."
After the end of "Party of Five," Fox starred on the short-lived UPN horror series "Haunted," playing a private detective who discovers that he can see the dead. It was in 2004 that Fox began perhaps his most famous role: Dr. Jack Shephard on ABC's mystery drama "Lost." Although Fox initially auditioned for the part of James "Sawyer" Ford, the show's co-creator J. J. Abrams felt he was a better fit for the part of the tenacious but troubled surgeon Jack. "Lost" was a massive hit, running for six seasons and earning Fox both Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor. Moreover, he shared the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast. While the show was still on, Fox hosted an episode of "Saturday Night Live" on NBC. Since the conclusion of "Lost," the actor has repeatedly stated that he is done with television.
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Film Career
Fox made his feature film debut in 1993, playing a supporting role in the romantic zombie comedy "My Boyfriend's Back." Directed by Bob Balaban, it stars Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, and Mary Beth Hurt, with brief appearances from Matthew McConaughey and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Fox didn't return to the big screen until 2006, when he had two movies in release. The first was the action thriller "Smokin' Aces," starring Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Andy Garcia, Chris Pine, Common, Jeremy Piven, and Ray Liotta. The second was "We Are Marshall," a historical drama about the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed multiple members of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team. Fox starred as assistant coach William "Red" Dawson in a cast featuring Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Kate Mara, and Ian McShane, among others. In 2008, Fox starred in two more movies: the political action thriller "Vantage Point," with Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, and Sigourney Weaver, and the sports action comedy "Speed Racer," based on the Japanese franchise from the 1960s. Directed by the Wachowski siblings, the film co-stars Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, and Susan Sarandon.
Fox continued to double up on his film appearances in 2012. That year, he co-starred in the thriller "Alex Cross," playing the villainous character of Michael "The Butcher" Sullivan. For the performance, Fox lost most of his body fat to develop a highly muscular physique. Also in 2012, he starred as Brigadier General Bonner Fellers in the American-Japanese historical drama "Emperor," with Tommy Lee Jones portraying General Douglas MacArthur. The next year, Fox had a bit part in the Brad Pitt action horror zombie film "World War Z." In 2015, Fox starred in another post-apocalyptic zombie film, "Extinction." The same year, he co-starred in the Western cannibal film "Bone Tomahawk" alongside actors Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, and David Arquette.
Personal Life and Real Estate
In 1992, Matthew married his longtime girlfriend and fellow Columbia student, Italian native Margherita Ronchi. Together, the couple has two children: Kyle and Bryon.
After "Lost" concluded, Fox and his family settled in the mountain town of Bend, Oregon, where they resided in a mansion set on over 10 acres of land. They bought the undeveloped property in August 2005 for $862,000 and by 2009 had completed construction on a 4,000-square-foot "modern masterpiece" home with four bedrooms and five bathrooms. The property has three parallel structures giving the owners three areas: sleep, play and work. There are heated concrete flooring and expansive windows with views of the Cascade mountains. Additionally, the property features a private hangar for his small plane. In 2018, they listed the mountain home for $4 million. They sold it for $3.15 million in April 2020. Here is a video tour:
