Joshua Ian Schwartz better known as Josh Schwartz has a net worth of $70 million. He was born on 6th of August in 1976 and already at the age of 26, Josh became the youngest person in network, who created a network series to run it day to day production! Television producer, Screenwriter and Film producer, was born in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States. His parents Honey and Steve Schwartz, were working as toy inventors at Hasbro, and lately started their own company. Joshua grew up with a younger brother, Danny, and a younger sister, Katie on the East side of Providence. Since very young age Schwartz was very ambitious about being a writer.
Josh Schwartz Net Worth $70 Million
Already in the age of seven, young writer won an essay-writing contest at children camp, for a review of just released movie Gremlins. The first line was “Spielberg has done it again” and of course it appeared as most outstanding essays. With age of 12 he even had a subscription to the newspaper Variety! Joshua studied his boyhood old dream, a TV and screen writing at a very prestigious University of Southern California, he also managed to generate Hollywood buzz for his screenplays while being still in college. While being a student Schwartz even tried himself at standup comedy at a talent show in front of five hundred people.
American screenwriter and television producer, Josh Schwartz estimates net worth of $70 million. He started his career in 2003, while writing a screen for Warner Brothers. And even not everybody could accept his success in TV industry, he managed to get what he wanted. The plot of him reached a huge popularity among teens, which was release in 2003. Already in 2005, Josh established the Josh Schwartz Scholarship, for students who are more concentrated on writing for TV. Josh Schwartz is best known for creating and producing the Fox`s teen drama series as comedy drama The O.C. (The Orange County) from 2003 till 2007, a total of four seasons. Next drama, which he created together with Chris Fedak is Chuck, an action comedy-spy drama, a premiere comes out in 2007 and takes 5 seasons till 2012. Gossip Girl, teen drama TV series based on a book with a same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar, together with Stephanie Savage, they made six seasons starting from 2007. All this, was easier to bring to reality, when a TV veteran Bob DeLaurents, signed on for nurturing presence on the show. Josh and Bob were collaborating on supervising of each TV episode. TV producer didn`t afraid to bring his own music taste to a series, the O.C. became well known for its music, chosen by Joshua Schwartz according to his favourite music.
Josh who owns $70 million, is the youngest ever creator of a TV show, and you can imagine that, some of geeks, who spent on TV industry ages, were not so pleasant with someone so young and ambitious! And in that time, when young writer started to collect his first salary, for sure he wound never think, that one day, many people will wonder, how ridiculously rich is Josh Schwartz. Josh with his wife Jill Stonerock and their child currently resides in Los Angeles.
Full Name
Josh Schwartz
Net Worth
$70 Million
Date Of Birth
August 6, 1976
Place Of Birth
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Profession
Screenwriter, Television producer, Film Producer
Education
University of Southern California, Wheeler School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Jill Stonerock (m. 2008)
Parents
Honey Schwartz, Steve Schwartz
Siblings
Danny Schwartz, Katie Schwartz
Nicknames
Joshua Ian Schwartz , Joshua Schwartz
Twitter
IMDB
Nominations
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama
Movies
Love the Coopers, Endless Love, Fun Size, Wall to Wall Records
TV Shows
The O.C., Chuck, Gossip Girl, Gossip Girl: Acapulco, Medcezir, Gossip Girl: Thailand, Rockville, CA, Hitched, Lily
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Trademark
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Satirical portrayal of teenage lives
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Fact
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On The O.C. (2003), he has based some teachers on some of his high school teachers, including a science teacher and dean from the Wheeler School.
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He went back to the Wheeler School, to give the graduation speech in 2005.
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Created The O.C. (2003) at the age of 26, becoming the youngest hour-long show creator ever.
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Parents were both toy designers for Hasbro Toys in Rhode Island
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Has two younger siblings, a sister and brother
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Graduated from The Wheeler School, a private school in Providence, Rhode Island, class of 1994
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Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1999)
