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Danny DeVito Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Children, Movies, Wiki, & Net Worth

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About Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito, is an American actor, director, producer, and comedian. Tortured for his small status at school and by neighboring kids, DeVito took a lot of bumps while growing up, but proved his mettle with his talent and passion for acting. He initiated out by doing off-Broadway musicals and later settled his first dominant portrayal in ‘NBC’ series ‘Taxi.’ The role of a repressive yet Charmy taxi dispatcher for the imaginary ‘Sunshine Cab Company’ made him a beloved character on American television and secured him for roles in Hollywood movies.

He has always been extolled for his comic timing and pleasant humor. However, he did not inhibit himself from only humor and examined with other roles as well. DeVito not only adorned Hollywood with his acting and comedy but also supervised movies starring great actors like , Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, etc. The genre near to his heart is a black comedy and almost all of his directorial undertakings belong to this genre. DeVito is also a producer and has produced remarkable projects like ‘Pulp Fiction,’ ‘Erin Brockovich,’ ‘Reno 911!’ etc

Bio/Wiki

Birth Name Daniel Michael DeVito, Jr.
Nick Name Danny DeVito
Age (as in 2022) 78 years
Religion Roman Catholic
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Birth Place Neptune Township, New Jersey, United States
Date of Birth 17 November 1944 [1]wikipedia
Nationality American
Residence Beverly Hills, California
Home Town Neptune Township, New Jersey
Hobbies Acting and reading books

Physical  Stats

Height (Approx.) in centimeters- 147cm
in meters- 1.47 m
in feet inches- 4’10”
Weight (Approx.) in kilograms- 70 kg
in pounds- 154 lbs

Figure Measurements

Chest Size 40 Inches
Hips Size 31 Inches
Waist Size 30 Inches

Extra Ordinary Features

Race / Ethnicity White
Hair Color White
Eye Color Dark Brown
S*xual Orientation Straight
Dress Size Not Known
Shoe Size American size- 9
European size- 42
British size- 8.5

Family

Mother’s Name Julia DeVito
Father’s Name Daniel DeVito, Sr. (Small Business Owner)
Brother None
Sister Angela Lucia (Older Sister)
Theresa Scialla (Older Sister)
Others • Michael DeVito (Paternal Grandfather)
• Mary DeVito (Paternal Grandmother)
• Ludovico Moccello (Maternal Grandfather)
• Angelina Moccello (Maternal Grandmother)
Wife/Spouse Rhea Perlman
Marriage Date 28 January 1982
Children Daughters- Lucy DeVito
Grace Fan DeVito
Son- Jake DeVito

Personal Life

School Oratory Preparatory School, New Jersey
College/University American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Educational Qualification Graduate
Profession Actor, comedian, director, producer
Brands Endorsed • Nespresso coffee machines (Alongside George Clooney)
• Lipton’s Brisk iced tea
• DIRECTV
• He has lent his voice in the ad for Nest Thermostat devices
Career Manager Stan Rosenfield & Associates, Inc

Awards

N/A

Relationship & more

Affairs/Girlfriends Rhea Perlman (1971-Present)

Favorite Things

Favourite Treasured Possession His wife
Favourite Super Power Get people do things the way he wanted
Favourite Fancy Dress Costume An apple
Favourite Guiltiest Pleasure Popcorn
His Greatest Achievement Staying alive
Controversies None

Danny DeVito was born Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey. DeVito was raised by his mother, Julia, and his father was a small business owner whose various experiments included a dry cleaner, luncheonette, dairy outlet, and pool hall.

DeVito joined Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grammar School and Oratory Prep High School in Summit, New Jersey, where he initially tried his hand at acting, acting in school productions of St. Francis of Assisi and the Billion Dollar Saint.

DeVito is 4 feet, 10 inches tall. His small status is due to his having Fairbank’s disease, also called multiple epiphyseal dysplasias (MED), which is a genetic bone rise disorder.miniature 4 feet, 10 inches tall, DeVito revealed he yearned to be taller as a youth. He said, “I was bedeviled; I could not slow-dance with the girls I wished to because my face would be in a scene where I might be thought of as moving too fast.” His height also made him a target for neighborhood bullies. “I took a lot of lumps,” DeVito remembers. “But I had a lot of friends who helped me and looked out for me.”

Although he acted in high school, when DeVito graduated in 1962 he did not consider acting a possible career path. DeVito revealed, “I wasn’t sure what I wished to do when I got out of high school. College did not seem a likely or beneficial option, and I didn’t want to go too far away.” DeVito was sprawling around the house one day when his older sister asked him to work as a hairdresser at the salon she owned. He remembers seeing, “Well, I’m not doing anything else, and I could meet a lot of girls there.”

After 18 months and no romances at his sister’s salon, DeVito decided to switch to the more lucrative cosmetics profession. He applied to take makeup classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Applicants must perform a monologue to get into any of the school’s programs, and after his monologue received positive feedback, DeVito decided to take acting classes as well. He quickly realized that acting was his true calling.

DeVito graduated from the American Academy in 1966 and worked briefly at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, where he met and befriended with fellow actor . While in Connecticut, DeVito read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood; after seeing an advertisement for Hollywood auditions for a movie version of the book, DeVito moved to Los Angeles.

DeVito did not land a part in the film In Cold Blood, or in anything else at the start of his career. Instead, he was worked as a car parker and hung around the Sunset Strip with all the flower children. He had long hair and he wore a raincoat and sneakers, and he fit right in. But he wished to act.” DeVito soon moved back to New York, where he initiated parts in several off-Broadway plays.

Money Factor

Danny DeVito has a net worth of $80 million.

Estimated Net Worth in 2022 (Approx) $80 Million
Previous Year’s Net Worth 2021 (Approx) Under Review
Annual Salary Under Review
Income Source Actor, comedian, director, producer

For many years Danny and Rhea resided in a 14,579 square foot house in Beverly Hills, California. They shopped the property in 1994 and sold it in April 2015 for $24 million after registering it a few years earlier off-market for more than $30 million.

They continue to co-own a home in Malibu’s Point Dume neighborhood.

 Movies And TV Shows

  • After his graduation, DeVito initiated working at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’ in Waterford, Connecticut.
  • After noticing an advertisement, he auditioned for a character in the film version of ‘In Cold Blood.’ DeVito did not get the part in the movie anissued working as a car parker to earn his living.
  • He soon migrated back to New York, where he got parts to play in several off-Broadway plays.
  • In 1971, DeVito settled the character of Martini in the stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Four years later,  formed its film version and demanded him to reprise his stage role.
  • DeVito auditioned for a new ‘NBC’ series titled ‘Taxi’ in 1978 and settled the part of the endearingly oppressive cab dispatcher, Louie De Palma. The show flew for five years and he won an ‘Emmy Award for ‘Best Supporting Actor.
  • After ‘Taxi’ was takeoff the air, DeVito’s Hollywood career initiated with ‘Terms of Endearment’ in 1983. The movie, which starred actors like Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson, won five Academy’ awards.
  • Now that his Hollywood career had started, DeVito rapidly earned popularity among filmmakers. He became part of another successful project titled Romancing the Stone’ in 1984. The film was an action-adventure romantic comedy, starring his friend and Kathleen Turner.
  • The following year, a sequel to Romancing the Stone’ titled The Jewel of the Nile released where all the actors reprised their respective roles. The movie turned out to be a commercial hit but failed to impress the critics.
  • In 1987, DeVito came up with his first directorial venture Throw Momma from the Train,’ a dark comedy in which he also played a role. Inspired by Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train,’ the movie also starred actors like Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner.
  • DeVito once again joined hands with for his next directorial venture The War of the Roses’ in 1989, which was another black comedy. The movie was based on Warren Adler’s novel of the same name.
  • In an attempt to avoid being stereotyped as a comedy actor, he starred in movies like ‘The Rainmaker’ (1997), Hoffa’ (1992) – a biographical film which he also directed, ‘Heist’ (2001), etc.
  • During 2002-2003, DeVito directed twmovies, ‘Death to Smoochy’ (2002), starring Robin Williams and Edward Norton, and ‘Duplex’ (2003), starring Ben Stiller . Both the movies were black comedies, a genre close to DeVito’s heart.
  • As DeVito was always interested in documentaries, he got into a partnership with Morgan Freeman’s company ‘ClickStar’ in 2006, which gave him an opportunity to host a documentary channel called ‘Jersey Docs.’
  • In 2012, he debuted at the ‘West End in a play titled ‘The Sunshine Boys’ by Neil Simon. He acted in the play along with Richard Griffiths. The play previewed at the ‘Savoy Theatre’ for a 12-week season. From 2012 to 2019, DeVito played many characters with different shades in several movies like ‘Hotel Noir’ (2012), ‘All the Wilderness’ (2014), ‘Weiner-Dog’ (2016), and Dumbo’ (2019).
  • He returned to direction with the 2016 short comedy film ‘Curmudgeons’ in which he starred alongside David Margulies.
  • As a voice actor, DeVito has voiced several characters in movies, such as ‘Look Who’s Talking Now’ (1993), Space Jam’ (1996), Hercules’ (1997), The Lorax’ (2012), Animal Crackers’ (2017), and Smallfoot’ (2018).
  • In 2019, he was cast to important roles in movies like Jumanji: The Next Level’ and Harry Haft.’ He was also elected to voice a character named Bob in a fantasy film titled The One and Only Ivan.

Movies List

1970 Dreams of Glass
1971 Lady Liberty
1972 Hot Dogs for Gauguin
1973 Hurry Up, or I’ll Be 30
Scalawag
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Deadly Hero
1976 Car Wash
The Money
1977 The Van
The World’s Greatest Lover
1978 Goin’ South
1979 Swap Meet
1981 Going Ape!
1983 Terms of Endearment
1984 Romancing the Stone
Johnny Dangerously
1985 The Jewel of the Nile
Head Office
1986 Wise Guys
Ruthless People
My Little Pony: The Movie
1987 Tin Men
Throw Momma from the Train
1988 Twins
1989 The War of the Roses
1991 Other People’s Money
1992 Batman Returns
Hoffa
1993 Jack the Bear
Last Action Hero
Look Who’s Talking Now
1994 Renaissance Man
Junior
1995 Get Shorty
1996 Matilda
Space Jam
Mars Attacks!
1997 The Rainmaker
Hercules
L.A. Confidential
Men in Black
1998 Living Out Loud
1999 The Big Kahuna
Man on the Moon
The Virgin Suicides
2000 Drowning Mona
Screwed
2001 Heist
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
2002 Death to Smoochy
Austin Powers in Goldmember
2003 Anything Else
Duplex
Big Fish
2004 Christmas in Love
2005 Be Cool
Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
2006 Relative Strangers
Even Money
10 Items or Less
The Oh in Ohio
Deck the Halls
2007 The Good Night
Reno 911!: Miami
Nobel Son
2008 Just Add Water
2009 House Broken
Solitary Man
2010 When in Rome
I’m Still Here
2011 Girl Walks into a Bar
Revenge of the Electric Car
2012 The Lorax
Hotel Noir
2014 All the Wilderness
2016 Curmudgeons
Wiener-Dog
The Comedian
2017 Animal Crackers
2018 Smallfoot
2019 Dumbo
Jumanji: The Next Level
2020 The One and Only Ivan
Yet To Be Released Harry Haft

TV Shows & Serials List

1977 Delvecchio
Starsky and Hutch
Police Woman
1978–1983 Taxi
1979 Angie
1980 The Associates
1982–1999 Saturday Night Live
1984 The Ratings Game
CBS Schoolbreak Special
1985 Amazing Stories
1988 Sesame Street
1990 The Earth Day Special
1991–1992; 2013 The Simpsons
1994 The Larry Sanders Show
1997 Pearl
2002 Ed
2003 Karen Sisco
2004 Friends
Father of the Pride
2006–present It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2015 Deadbeat
2018 The Kominsky Method  [2]IMDB

Some unknown facts about

  1. Before becoming a successful actor, he has held a number of confused jobs such as a cosmetician at his sister’s beauty salon and cleaning of ashtrays at a hotel.
  2. He was under consideration to play the role of Super Mario in the adventure comedy film, Super Mario Bros, which was influenced by the popular video game. The role finally went to Bob Hoskins.
  3. In 2010, he was listed into the New Jersey Hall of Fame for his enormous contributions and works to the show business and entertainment industry.
  4. In his early competing days, he shared a flat in Manhattan, New York City with actor  His share in the rent of the flat was $75 per month.
  5. The producers of Kindergarten Cop considered Danny for the lead role of Detective John Kimble. However, they decided against casting him due to his short stature and instead went for his close friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  6. He collaborated with Michael Shamberg to establish a production house, Jersey Films, which has produced cult hits such as Pulp Fiction (1994) and Garden State (2004).
  7. His father got him enrolled at a boarding school at the age of 14 after he had convinced his father that was the only way to keep him out of trouble.
  8. The cause of his famous short stature is multiple epiphyseal dysplasias, which is also known as Fairbank’s disease. This rare genetic problem has an adverse effect on the development of bones.
  9. He was the co-owner of a Miami-based restaurant named DeVito South Beach. However, it shut down in 2011.
  10. He has been elected in the steering committee of the Friends of the Apollo, which works to support a theater of the same name in Oberlin, Apollo.
  11. He was honored with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6906 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood in August 2011.
  12. He is an environment lover and uses a Nissan Leaf 100% electric car. He is also a supporter of the Solar Neighbors Program, which is a foundation that encourages the usage of solar power.
  13. He is an active proponent of the International Myeloma Foundation, which is the largest and oldest charity that supports this unique form of cancer.
  14. At the 73rd Annual Academy Awards, he took a bag of carrots along to munch during the award ceremony.

References

References
1 wikipedia
2 IMDB

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