Rashida Jones is a popular actress, screenwriter, comic book author and also a singer. She is mostly known for her roles in Parks and Recreation, Boston Public, The Social Network and many other shows and televisions. What is more, Jones became spokeswoman for Dove Nourishing Oil Care Collection in 2011. In addition to this Rashida was also a part of several online comedy series.
So how rich is Rashida Jones? It has been made a statement that Rashida’s net worth is about 10 million dollars. As Rashida continues acting in different movies and also works as a co-screenwriter, there is a high chance that Rashida Jones’s net worth will become higher in the future.
Rashida Jones Net Worth $10 Million
Rashida Leah Jones, or simply known as Rashida Jones, was born in 1976, in Los Angeles. Her parent was a musician and her mother an actress, known for her roles in Twin Peaks and The Mod Squad. So Rashida knew from the very young age what it meant to be popular and recognized. In her childhood, Jones learned how to play the piano and had a very nice voice. Later Rashida studied at Harward University and was interested in the idea of becoming a lawyer, but she later decided to study performing arts. During this time Rashida acted in different plays. Her debut as an actress was in The Last Don. This is when Jones’s net worth started to grow. She also appeared in such movies as If These Walls Could Talk 2, Boston Public, Freaks and Geeks and many others. These roles not only made her more popular but also helped her to receive the attention from others.
One of her most successful roles was in the television series, The Office, where she had an opportunity to work with Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson and many others. What is more, Rashida appeared in I Love You, Man, directed by John Hamburg, and worked with Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Andy Samberg and others. Other movies that Rashida appeared in include Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Crop Out, Friend with Benefits, Decoding Annie Parker and others. All these appearances added up to the growth of Rashida Jones’s net worth.
As it was mentioned before, Rashida is not only an actress but also a singer. She was a back vocal for Maroon 5. She also worked with Tupac Shakur and sand the song for the soundtracks of such movies as The Ten, Reno 911!: Miami and The Baxter. In addition to this Rashida directed Sara Bareilles’s music video for the song, called Brave. This of course made Jones’s net worth higher. Online comedy series, which Jones was a part of, include Speak Put, Web Therapy, Wainy Days and others. To conclude, it could be said that Rashida is a talented actress, singer, songwriter and producer. There is a high possibility that Rashida will appear in many more movies and television shows in the future. If this happens, eventually Rashida Jone’s net worth will also become higher.
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series/Comedy Series (2002/2012), Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay (2011)
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Our Idiot Brother (2011), Monogamy (2010), The Muppets (2011), Inside Out (2015), A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
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The Last Don (1997), If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000), Freaks and Geeks (2000), Boston Public (2000-2002),Celeste and Jesse Forever, Who Do You Think You Are? (2012), Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
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Often appears in movies with Paul Rudd and/or Jason Segel
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[on her Jewish faith] I do not keep kosher. I grew up reformed. I never had my bat mitzvah, but I still practice and go to synagogue on high holidays.
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(2011, on having famous parents) Look, I have parents who have accomplished so much. I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all. I've been acting professionally for 15 years, and I've had to prove myself. Someone may think, Oh, everything was handed to her, but it doesn't really work that way.
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(2011) In high school I never drank, I never smoked, I never smoked weed. I was president of the varsity club and was on the math team and then student government. I was in every activity. I saved all the bad stuff for college.
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(2011, on Michael Jackson) Michael basically grew up with us, so I have a million memories of him. We were at each other's house all the time. He was definitely a little bit of an alien, for sure, and when I was young, it felt as if he was my age, not 18 years older, but with just a little bit more pep. Later, we'd go out on the town together. He always wore those surgical masks. Once, my sister, Michael, Emmanuel Lewis and I got in a car with Super Soakers and went by a movie theater and supersoaked the hell out of people waiting in line. They had no idea they'd just been supersoaked by the King of Pop.
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[from a 2005 Glamour Magazine interview with Rashida and Kidada Jones] Finally I was leaving for college, for Harvard. Daddy would have died if I turned Harvard down. Harvard was supposed to be the most enlightened place in America, but that's where I encountered something I'd never found in L.A.: segregation. The way the clubs and the social life were set up, I had to choose one thing to be: black or white. I chose black. I went to black frat parties and joined the Black Student Association, a political and social group. I protested the heinous book The Bell Curve [which claims that a key determinant of intelligence is inherited], holding a sign and chanting. But at other protests-on issues I didn't agree with- wondered: Am I doing this because I'm afraid the black students are going to hate me if I don't? As a black person at Harvard, the lighter you were, the blacker you had to act. I tried hard to be accepted by the girls who were the gatekeepers to Harvard's black community. One day I joined them as usual at their cafeteria table. I said, "Hey!"-real friendly. Silence. I remember chewing my food in that dead, ominous silence. Finally, one girl spoke. She accused me of hitting on one of their boyfriends over the weekend. It was untrue, but I think what was really eating her was that she thought I was trying to take away a smart, good-looking black man-and being light-skinned, I wasn't "allowed" to do that. I was hurt, angry. I called Kidada in New York crying. She said, "Tell her what you feel!" So I called the girl and...I really ripped her a new one. But after that, I felt insidious intimidation from that group. The next year there was a black guy I really liked, but I didn't have the courage to pursue him. Sometimes I think of him and how different my life might be if I hadn't been so chicken. The experience was shattering. Confused and identity-less, I spent sophomore year crying at night and sleeping all day. Mom said, "Do you want to come home?" I said, "No." Toughing it out when you don't fit in: That was the strength my sister gave me.
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[from a 2005 Glamour Magazine interview with Rashida and Kidada Jones] When I audition for white roles, I'm told I'm "too exotic." When I go up for black roles, I'm told I'm "too light." I've lost a lot of jobs, looking the way I do.
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It's a two-way street. Hollywood, yes, I would say there is some feeding of some, as my character says in the movie ["Celeste and Jesse Forever"], 'pretty garbage-y stuff,' but we're also eating the garbage. So people have to show that there's a mature, complex moviegoing audience that wants to see - we have to see, we have to demand the better stuff. I'm not against an action movie, I'm not against a big-budget movie, but the ones that I like are the ones where it's obvious where they took the time to develop characters, develop jokes, develop storylines. Like, don't waste my time and don't insult me, is how I feel.
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Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish, and Jones attended Hebrew school.
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As of the end of 2009, has played three different characters with the name "Karen" on cult classic TV comedies (Freaks and Geeks (1999), Stella (2005) and The Office (2005)).
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Rashida's father is African-American, and also has smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh, ancestry (some of his African ancestors were from the Tikar people of Cameroon). Rashida's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent).
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Appeared as a vocalist in a tribute song to Tupac Shakur, who was engaged to her sister, Kidada Jones. Rashida and Kidada's brother Quincy Jones III produced the song, and their father, Quincy Jones, made an appearance reciting the lines of Shakur's poem "Starry Night" during the introduction. The title of the song is named after the poem.