What Is Tony Goldwyn's Net Worth and Salary?
Tony Goldwyn is an American actor and director who has a net worth of $8 million. Tony Goldwyn is perhaps best known for playing Carl Bruner in 1990's "Ghost" and fictional United States president Fitzgerald Grant III on ABC's "Scandal." Tony appeared in all 124 of the show's 124 episodes over seven seasons which aired between 2012 and 2018. He has also appeared in movies like "The 6th Day," "The Last House on the Left," and "King Richard."
Early Life
Tony Goldwyn was born Anthony Howard Goldwyn on May 20, 1960, in Los Angeles, California. Tony grew up in a family of actors, writers, and directors. He is the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. His maternal grandparents were playwrights Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. As for his siblings, Goldwyn's brother John is a former executive producer of "Dexter." His brother Peter is also a film producer. Tony earned a BFA in Theater from Brandeis University, then he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He also studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.
Career
Tony began his professional on-camera career with a small role in 1986's "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives." He next appeared in "Gaby" in 1987 and then went on to a slew of guest-starring roles on such popular late-eighties television shows as "St. Elsewhere," "Designing Women," "L.A. Law," "Hunter," and "Murphy Brown." In 1990, he was cast in the role that would make him a household name as Carl Bruner, Patrick Swayze's character's friend-turned-betrayer in "Ghost." For this role, he earned a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is also well known for his role on the comedy series "Designing Women," on which he played a young, HIV-positive interior designer who asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral. In 1993, Goldwyn played the role of Fletcher Coal in "The Pelican Brief." In the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon," he portrayed Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11.
In 1995, Tony played the role of Harold Nixon in "Nixon." In 1999, he voiced the title character from the animated feature film "Tarzan." He reprised the role in the Disney video games "Tarzan Untamed" and "Kingdom Hearts." Goldwyn had a recurring role on NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as Frank Goren, the brother of lead character Robert Goren. From 2012 to 2018, Tony starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal and political drama "Scandal." He also directed eight episodes of the show. In 2013, Goldwyn starred in the Lifetime Original Movie "Outlaw Prophet" as Warren Jeffers.
In 2014, Tony appeared in "Divergent" as Andrew Prior, the father of Angel Elgort and Shailene Woodley's characters. In 2015, he starred in James Gunn's horror film "The Belko Experiment." Goldwyn appeared in the feature film "Mark Felt – The Man Who Brought Down the White House" in 2017 as part of an all-star cast including Liam Neeson and Diane Lane. In 2018, Goldwyn played Ben Lefevre in the Netflix supernatural series "Chambers." In 2020, he appeared on HBO's "Lovecraft Country" as Samuel Braithwaite. He appeared in the film King Richard" in 2021.
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Goldwyn has gone back and forth between film and television work, both as an actor and a director. He has directed such projects as "A Walk on the Moon," "The L Word," "Grey's Anatomy," and "Dexter," in which he also acted. In 2014, he directed the pilot episode of WE's "The Divide." He also served as an executive producer. In addition, Tony has recorded numerous audiobooks throughout his career.
Outside of his lengthy film and TV career, Goldwyn is also a stage actor. He has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre, appearing in "Spike Heels" in 1992 alongside Kevin Bacon and starring opposite Kate Burton in "The Water's Edge." He also appeared in "Promises, Promises" starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth on Broadway at the Circle in the Square theater. The cast recording was released on June 23, 2010, with Goldwyn featuring on three tracks.
In April 2012, Tony played Captain von Trapp opposite Laura Osnes in a performance of "The Sound of Music" at Carnegie Hall. The performance also featured opera singer Stephanie Blythe, Brooke Shields, and Patrick Page. In 2018, he starred opposite Bryan Cranston in the role of Max Schumacher in a sold-out run of "Network" at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. In 2020, Goldwyn appeared on Broadway again as Henry Wilcox in "The Inheritance"
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Activism
Goldwyn is a former president of the Creative Coalition and is involved heavily with arts advocacy and activism. Tony also works as a spokesperson for the AmeriCares Foundation. He was an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and in 2016, he directed a commercial featuring his "Scandal" co-stars Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Shonda Rhimes in support of Clinton's presidential campaign. Goldwyn also serves as an ambassador for the non-profit The Innocence Project, an organization that strives to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates and reform the criminal justice system.
In August 2024, Tony was revealed to be one of the main celebrity hosts of the Democratic National Convention.
Personal Life & Real Estate
Goldwyn has been married to production designer Jane Michelle Musky since 1987, and the pair has two daughters, Anna and Tess. They raised their family in suburban Connecticut, where Tony and Jane still reside.
In 1997, Tony and Jane paid $1.1 million for an estate in New Canaan, Connecticut. The two-acre property features a 5,000-square-foot home. They sold this home in June 2018 for $2 million. In March 2018 they paid $1.956 million for a 4,500-square-foot home in Pound Ridge, New York that sits on 10 private wooded acres. The couple also owns a five acre property in Block Island, Rhode Island, which they purchased in February 2001 for $1.5 million. This property has a large yard with a path that leads to an oceanfront pond.
