Matthew Richard Stone was born on 26 May 1971, in Houston, Texas USA, and is an animator, actor, producer, director, singer and song writer perhaps best known for his works co-creating the animated sitcom “South Park”, and musical “The Book of Mormon”, which have brought Matt a great number of awards.
So just how rich is Matt Stone? Authoritative sources say that Matt has an estimated net worth of $300 million, as of mid-2016, from working in all the areas of the entertainment industry mentioned above.
Matt Stone Net Worth $300 Million
Matthew was born to parents Sheila Lois Belasco – part-Jewish – and Gerald Whitney Stone, Jr.; Stone used the names of his parents when writing the script of “South Park”. He was educated at Heritage High School, and then graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Matt Stone began his career as well as the accumulation of the net worth being still a student. Together with Trey Parker he created ‘The Spirit of Christmas’, referring to two animated short films “Jesus vs. Frosty” and “Jesus vs. Santa” – the latter film won a Florida Film Festival Award for the Best Short and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for the Best Animated Film. From 1997, “South Park” – an adult animated sitcom – has been broadcasted on Comedy Central television network. The series were created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and initially received controversial reviews from critics, but it appeared in a number of lists naming the greatest shows, best cartoon and greatest pop culture icons. The series won a huge number of various awards including being nominated for the Emmy Award for the Outstanding Animated Program ten times. Needless to say, that the sitcom “South Park” significantly increased Matt’s net worth and wealth; due to its great popularity, an animated music comedy film “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” was released in 1999, which also collected a huge number of nominations and awards.
Matt’s next notable work was the comedy film ‘Team America: World Police’ which won an Empire Award for the Best Comedy and was nominated for a number of other awards. Stone has also added to his net worth co-creating animation series ‘Princess’, television series ‘That’s My Bush!’, How’s Your News?’, and television show ‘Kenny vs. Spenny’, adding to his net worth.
Matt Stone has appeared in a number of TV specials as a host or voice of ‘South Park’ characters, including 50th and 51st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python, 2000 MTV Movie Awards, 6 Days to Air, and the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. Matt Stone added to his net worth and popularity after co-creating a religious satire musical ‘”he Book of Mormon” which won a huge number of awards including Grammy Award, Tony Awards and other famous awards.
In addition to these, six video games under the franchise of ‘South Park’ were co-created by Matt.
As a musician, Matt has released seven albums, many soundtrack albums including ‘Basketball’, ‘Orgazmo’, ‘South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut’, ‘Team America: World Police’, ‘The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording’, and compilation albums ‘Chef Aid: The South Park Album’, ‘Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics’.
In his personal life, Matt Stone married Angela Howard in 2008, and the couple has two children. Matt identifies himself as an atheist, regardless of his ancestry, and a libertarian.
