Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly Profile Summary

Jennifer Tilly's Net Worth in 2024: $40 million

Jennifer Tilly began her career as an actor, starring in Woody Allen’s film Bullets Over Broadway. She has been in movies and TV including House Arrest and Liar Liar, worked as a voice actor and has a successful career as a screenwriter.

Beyond entertainment, she is well-known in the poker world. Tilly is a pro poker player thanks to her boyfriend, Phil “Unabomber” Laak. It was he who insisted she start participating in competitive poker tournaments. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Jennifer Tilly has a net worth of $40 million.

I'll see the young kid who's taking his college tuition to enter the tournament, and then I knock him out. I feel horrible. You have to get really hardhearted. Sometimes I'll go easy on some really old guy, and then he just really sticks it to me a half-hour later. He's really ungracious about it, and I think, Oooh, I should have never let him live. I should have snuffed him out when I had the chance.

What Does Jennifer Tilly Do?

Jennifer Tilly has been an actor for decades with over 120 acting credits. Since the mid-1980s, she’s been making movies and has also done quite a few voices that you might be familiar with. 

She is the voice of Bonnie Swanson in the Family Guy and also did the voice of Celia Mae in Monsters, Inc. 

Since 2005, she has also been playing poker professionally. 

How Did Jennifer Tilly Make Her Money?

Jennifer Tilly made a lot of money acting consistently for over three decades. Not only did she act but is also a voice actor and screenwriter. She had already amassed plenty of wealth, but it didn’t hurt to get yearly royalties in the millions. Her ex-husband Sam Simon was the co-creator and producer of The Simpsons. 

They divorced in 1993 but when Simon died, Jennifer was left with 30% of the royalties, which pays her up to $10 million per year. 

On top of all her acting earnings and royalties, she is a successful tournament poker player, winning over $1 million so far.

What’s Jennifer Tilly’s Game of Choice? 

Jennifer Tilly has always loved poker. Her dad was a gambler and poker player and introduced her to the World Series of Poker video game. This is how she honed her skills and began to understand all about poker hand rankings, like the Dead Man’s Hand. She started playing poker in 2005 and won her first (and only) WSOP bracelet.

What is the Most She Ever Won?

According to The Hendon Mob, Tilly’s biggest win was in 2005 when she won the WSOP, bringing in a prize of $158,335. She also won the bracelet in the event, Ladies’ No-Limit Texas hold’em as well as $124,455 in the $5,000 + 180 No Limit Hold ’em.

How Does Jennifer Tilly Like to Spend Her Money?

She likes to collect fine jewelry but says her favourite piece of jewelry is the cheapest one, her WSOP gold bracelet. She doesn’t talk much about her purchases, however, there is some information online about her homes. This includes a luxury mansion in LA and two homes in Canada, where she grew up.

Key Gambling Stats 

• Biggest win - $158,625
• Biggest loss - Undisclosed
• Her big break into gambling was when she played WSOP 2005 and won her only bracelet. 

Gambling Lessons From Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly has always been pushing forward and trying to improve. She is unapologetic in her decisions. She stopped playing poker in 2008 and had a change of heart one year later. At the beginning of 2010, she said she was going to resume her poker career. She said the year she took off helped her prioritize what she wanted to do and make more space for it. 

She’s extremely busy as an actor, voice actor, and screenwriter so finding time to focus on gambling took time. Tilly might not be as successful at poker as Vanessa Selbst, but she’s still earned over $1,000,000 in poker winnings and is one of the top 2500 all-time winners in professional poker. It doesn’t hurt that her boyfriend, Phil Laak is such a supporter of her. You can even see her wins posted on his personal website.

Confidence is Key

Jennifer Tilly gained confidence throughout her life with acting and let this flow into her poker career. While many think she started playing when she began to date Phil Laak 15 years ago, she’s been actively playing poker for 25 years. 

Jennifer was dating a man who would play poker on Monday nights and she felt left out. She would do anything competitive and so she just learned how to play without being intimidated. When she talks about playing poker, she always talks about how she feels bad about beating out guys. That’s the kind of mentality she walks in with when she’s going to play. It’s that confidence that has brought her so much success in gambling and her acting career.