Kay Cannon Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Kay Cannon is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is famous for writing and producing the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with the comedy film Blockers (2018).

Cannon was also a writer and producer for the NBC comedy series 30 Rock (2007–2012) and the FOX comedy series New Girl (2012–2014). She created, wrote and produced the short-lived Netflix comedy-drama series Girlboss (2017).

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Early life

Name	Kay Cannon
Net Worth	$10 million
Occupation	Actress, Producer, Director, Screenwriter
Age	48 years
Height	1.71m

Kay Cannon net worth

Kay Cannon was born on August 21, 1974 (age 48 years) in Custer Park, Illinois, United States. She is the daughter of American parents and is the fifth of seven children. She graduated from Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, and received her BA in Theatre and MA in Education at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.

Career

Kay Cannon trained at The Second City, ImprovOlympic, and ComedySportz. One of her first jobs was as a performer at ComedySportz.

Cannon has performed sketch and improv for theaters including Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Second City in Chicago and Las Vegas, ImprovOlympic (West and Chicago) and at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles and New York City.

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She starred in the independent film The Little Tin Man (2013). She has guest-starred on NBC’s 30 Rock, New Girl, and Cristela. She made a cameo in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and also appeared in the comedy How to Be Single (2016), starring Rebel Wilson and Dakota Johnson.

While performing and writing around Chicago, Kay Cannon met actress Tina Fey, a fellow Second City alumna. When Fey began creating the NBC comedy 30 Rock, she brought Cannon to the writing staff. She worked her way up from staff writer to supervising producer.

Kay Cannon won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedic Series for her work on 30 Rock three times. In 2008, she won a Peabody Award for her work on the show.

In 2010, Kay Cannon was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. During this time, Cannon also worked as a co-producer on the feature film, Baby Mama (2008).

She moved from New York City to Los Angeles when she signed an overall development deal with 20th Century Fox. Within that deal, she worked as a co-executive producer on New Girl and as a consulting producer on Cristela. As part of her development, Cannon sold a workplace comedy, The Wrecking Crew, to Fox and wrote the pilot The Runt for CBS.

Kay Cannon created, and executive produced the show Girlboss for Netflix based on the real life of Sophia Amoruso. Her first produced feature screenplay was the a cappella comedy Pitch Perfect (2012). She wrote and co-produced the film’s sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).

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Cannon made her directorial debut with Blockers. The film was released by Universal Pictures on April 6, 2018. On April 9, 2019, it was announced that Cannon would write and direct a musical reimagining of Cinderella for Sony Pictures, starring Camila Cabello and produced by James Corden and his production company, Fullwell 73.

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Husband

Who is Kay Cannon’s husband? Kay Cannon current husband is Eben Russell, they had their wedding in 2012. Her second husband Eben is a comedy writer and they have a daughter born in October 2013. However, she was married to her first husband actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis in 2004 and they separated in 2008 and divorced in 2010.