Lee Pace was born on the 25th March 1979 in Chickasha, Oklahoma USA, and is a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award-nominated actor, best known for his role in the TV series “Pushing Daisies”, as Ned. Pace is also known for working in such films as “The Hobbit” trilogy, playing Elven king Thranduil, and also as Ronan in the film “Guardians of the Galaxy”. He currently stars in the ABC’s series “Halt and Catch Fire” (2014-2017), as Joe MacMillan.
Have you ever wondered how rich Lee Pace is as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Pace’s net worth is as high as $5 million, an amount earned through his successful career in the world of entertainment, active since 2002.
Lee Pace Net Worth $5 Million
Lee Pace is a son of James Roy Pace, an engineer, and Charlotte, a schoolteacher, and grew up in Texas alongside his sister Sally and brother William. He went to Klein High School in Spring, Texas, and later was accepted into the Juilliard School’s Drama Division, and appeared in several plays until 2001.
In 2002, Pace debuted on television in an episode of the Golden Globe Award-winning series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, while a year later, he starred in a Golden Globe Award-nominated TV movie called “Soldier’s Girl”. In 2004, Lee played in 13 episodes of “Wonderfalls”, while in 2005, he appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardso, and Vanessa Redgrave in “The White Countess”. Pace continued with “Infamous” (2006) starring Toby Jones, Daniel Craig and Sandra Bullock, and had a minor role in Robert De Niro’s Oscar Award-nominated “The Good Shepherd” (2006) with Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and De Niro. From 2007 to 2009, Lee played Ned in 22 episodes of the Golden Globe Award-nominated series “Pushing Daisies”, for which he earned nominations for both Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Awards. His net worth was certainly now well established.
In 2008, Pace had a part alongside Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, and Ciarán Hinds in “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”, and then appeared in “Possession” (2008) starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and in the Oscar Award-nominated “A Single Man” (2009) with Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. Pace started the present decade with the role of Brady Sacks in the film “When in Rome” (2010) alongside Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, and Anjelica Huston, and then featured in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Award-winning film “Lincoln” (2012) starring Daniel Day-Lewis. From 2012 to 2014, Lee appeared in all three films of “The Hobbit” trilogy, while he also played in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” (2012) and “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014) starring Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper.
Since 2014, Pace has been starring as Joe MacMillan in the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated TV series “Halt and Catch Fire”, while in the meantime, he appeared alongside Ben Foster in the movie “The Program” (2015). Most recently, Pace portrayed Mark in the romantic horror drama “The Keeping Hours” (2017), then played Bo in the sci-fi action film “Revolt” (2017), while he also worked on the crime-drama thriller “Book of Henry” (2017), starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, and Jacob Tremblay. He is currently even busier working on the comedy film “The Party’s Just Beginning”, which will be released in 2018.
Aside from screen, Lee is also known for his extensive work on stage; he appeared in the play “Small Tragedy” by Craig Lucas, for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award-nomination in the category Outstanding Actor, and then starred in the play “Guardians” by Peter Morris, which also earned him a nomination for a Lortel Award in the same category. He made his Broadway debut in 2011 when he appeared in the play “The Normal Heart”, and has made several other notable appearances, such as portraying composer Vincenzo Bellini in the play “Golden Age”, among others, and will also feature in the play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes”, scheduled for a 2018 premiere.
Regarding his personal life, until most recently very little info was available about Lee’s personal life, but it has been revealed that Lee is bi-sexual. He has dated both women and men in the past, and the list includes such names as Laura Donnelly, Carter Smith, Jason Moore and James Calleri, however, he is currently single. He loves skydiving and traveling, and owns a Pointer dog named Carl.
