These 2 Young Sheldon Stars Are the Wealthiest Cast Members (None of Them Is Iain Armitage)
You may still easily guess whose piggy bank got way bigger after seven years of the prequel’s run.
Having come to its end back in 2019, The Big Bang Theory still secured its future as a franchise established in 2017 when Young Sheldon hit the screens with its season 1.
Just like its predecessor, the show had an immense success with the audience, leaving everyone in tears by the time it wrapped its story up in the seventh and last season released this year.
Young Sheldon made sure that its commercial success would bring its cast and crew to a new level of wealth, yet only two of the show’s regulars can now boast of an impressive net worth — ironically, even Iain Armitage doesn’t get close to them.
The numbers in Young Sheldon actors’ salaries were just wildly different, but it didn’t impede a side character to become one of the wealthiest cast members in real life.
According to several reports shared across social media during recent years, Annie Potts, who in Young Sheldon portrayed the titular character’s grandma nicknamed Meemaw, lost the first place to only one actor with an estimated net worth of around $8 million.
Despite having gained much more popularity after showing up in Young Sheldon, Potts has been a prominent figure in the industry for years, securing this position by a big role in Ghostbusters movie series and some cameo appearances in shows like The Twilight Zone, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS: New Orleans.
It surely won’t come as a surprise for those who have been following The Big Bang Theory and its spinoffs for years, yet Jim Parsons’ salary numbers can still turn out to be pretty impressive.
According to the reports, Young Sheldon’s narrator and executive producer secured himself a careless retirement with an estimated net worth of $160 million. Sheldon’s original actor was the one to lead The Big Bang Theory to its end with season 12, but he also joined Young Sheldon after exiting the parent show.
Parsons’ decisions caused lots of controversies and speculations afterwards, yet he still handled both series pretty well.