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Bill Nye Net Worth

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Bill Nye net worth is
$6.5 Million

Bill Nye Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, and scientist who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator. 
Full NameBill Nye
Net Worth$6.5 Million
Date Of BirthNovember 27, 1955
Place Of BirthWashington, District of Columbia, USA
Height1.85 m
ProfessionScreenwriter, Presenter, Comedian, Actor, Engineer, Educator, Scientist
ResidenceLos Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationCornell University, Sidwell Friends School
Religionnone/agnostic
NationalityAmerican
SpouseBlair Tindall
ChildrenCharity Nye
ParentsEdwin D. "Ned" Nye, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye
SiblingsEdward Darby Nye Jr., Susan Nye
NicknamesWilliam Sanford Nye, Bill Nye, William Nye, Nye, William, Nye, William Sanford
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AwardsDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Children's Series, Shorty Award for Best in Science, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s or Pre-School Children’s Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, Washington Award
NominationsDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Photography, 20. Motion, 19. Science of Music, 18. Patterns
MoviesRocketboy
Star SignSagittarius
#Trademark
1Always appears with bow-tie and lab coat
#Quote
1[on how he makes the average person understand science] You have to have learning objectives - things you want to get across. You want to make a point: Humans and dinosaurs did not live concurrently. If you get the adjacent carbon dating of volcanic soil, hat's cool. But what I want you to get is that ancient dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time. The rest is gravy.
2Science rules!
3Our country is the only country in the world that has some people that don't believe in evolution. America is still the leader in scientific advancement, and yet we have adults who want to ignore the evidence of millions and millions of years to believe something much more complicated and complex with zero proof. It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions. I think in 30-40 years this won't even be an issue, but right now it's a major concern for a country that has a significant amount of adults raising children to ignore the facts and the evidence surrounding them about our universe, our creation and our well-being.
4[advice to young scientists] Try things then clean up after yourself. Then try some more things and clean that up too.
#Fact
1His maternal grandmother, Lucy Marie Berta Briot, was French. His other ancestry includes English, Welsh, and Irish.
2One of his "Almost Live" co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of "Nebraska".
3One of his characters on the Seattle-based sketch show, "Almost Live", was a humorless caped superhero, Speed Walker.
4Lives in Los Angeles. Neighbors include Ed Begley Jr. and Alex Trebek.
5Quit working at Boeing in the early 80s to become a stand-up comedian.
6Good friends with Kevin Brauch.
7Announced he was engaged to be married to Blair Tindall on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) in December 2005. The "marriage" lasted less than a month before it was either annulled or deemed invalid (sources disagree on the detail). In November 2007, Nye filed for a restraining order against "ex-fiance" Tindall, saying that he wondered if she might have poured solvent on his garden. The restraining order was later dismissed.
8Enjoys 30s/40s style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
9Premiered his Science Guy character on the Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! (1984).
10An honored as Rhodes Class of '56 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied under Carl Sagan.
11His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
12He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
13Self proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie everyday, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
14His father, Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, "Sundials of Maryland and Virginia." Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye's "Sandial®," a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
15Started his career after he won a Steve Martin lookalike contest.
16Worked as an engineer at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films, some of which are still popular among the workers there.
17Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

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Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Miles from Tomorrowland2015-2016TV SeriesProfessor Rubicon Professor Randii Rubicon
Inside Amy Schumer2015TV SeriesBill Nye
Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackles DeflateGate2015ShortScience Guy
The (206)2013-2014TV Series
The Neighbors2014TV SeriesBill Nye
Tosh.02014TV Series
The Drunken Peasants2014TV Series
The Big Bang Theory2013TV SeriesBill Nye
Stargate: Atlantis2008TV SeriesBill Nye
Numb3rs2005-2008TV SeriesBill Waldie
Rocketboy2006ShortPayload Specialist
The Eyes of Nye2005TV SeriesHost
100 Greatest Discoveries2004TV Mini-Series documentaryNarrator / Host
BattleBots2000TV SeriesTechnical Expert
Get Real2000TV SeriesMr. Stone
The Wonderful World of Disney1998TV SeriesScience Teacher
Astronauts1997TV MovieNarrator
Back to the Future1991-1992TV SeriesThe Science Guy
The All New Mickey Mouse Club1989TV Series
Almost Live!1984TV SeriesVarious

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Stuff Happens Hosted by Bill NyeTV Series 4 episodes, 2008 written by - 5 episodes, 2008
The Eyes of Nye2005TV Series head writer
Absent Minded Inventions and the Search for Flubber with Bill Nye the Science Guy1997TV Movie documentary
Bill Nye, the Science GuyTV Series documentary written by - 21 episodes, 1993 - 1994 creator - 1 episode, 1995 head writer - 1 episode, 1995

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Flubber1997science consultant
American Experience1991-1996TV Series documentary production assistant - 6 episodes
Degenerate Art1993TV Movie documentary production assistant

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Bill Nye, the Science Guy1995TV Series documentary producer - 3 episodes

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Whose Line Is It Anyway?2015TV Series performer - 1 episode

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
For the Love of Spock2016Documentary special thanks
The Confirmation2016special thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Bill Nye Saves the World2017TV Series announcedHimself - Host
The Bill Nye Film2017Documentary pre-productionHimself
StarTalk2015-2016TV SeriesHimself
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - World Premiere2016TV MovieHimself - The Scientism Guy
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf2016TV SeriesHimself
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault2016DocumentaryHimself
Food Evolution2016DocumentaryHimself
CBS News Sunday Morning2016TV Series documentaryHimself
The Journey to Mars 101: Living on Mars and Beyond2016Video documentaryHimself - Host
Chelsea2016TV SeriesHimself
Fight for Space2016DocumentaryHimself - CEO Planetary Society
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore2015-2016TV SeriesHimself - Panelist / Himself
Independent Lens2016TV Series documentaryHimself
Explorer2015TV Series documentary
Global Citizen Festival2015TV MovieHimself
Whose Line Is It Anyway?2015TV SeriesHimself - Guest
7th Annual Shorty Awards2015VideoHimself - Presenter, Winner: Best in Science
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs2015TV SpecialHimself
Real Time with Bill Maher2013-2015TV SeriesHimself - Guest / Himself
Inside Edition2014TV Series documentaryHimself
Up with Steve Kornacki2014TV SeriesHimself - Guest
CBS This Morning2012-2014TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver2014TV SeriesHimself
Late Night with Seth Meyers2014TV SeriesHimself
An Honest Liar2014DocumentaryHimself - The Science Guy
The Independents2014TV SeriesHimself
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers2014TV SeriesHimself
Katie2014TV SeriesHimself
ABC News Nightline2014TV SeriesHimself - CEO, Planetary Society
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir2014TV SeriesHimself - 'The Science Guy'
Piers Morgan Tonight2013-2014TV SeriesHimself - Science Educator / Himself
Uncensored Science: Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham2014TV MovieHimself - Against creationism
King of the Nerds2014TV SeriesHimself - Judge
Stossel2012-2014TV SeriesHimself
Politics Nation with Al Sharpton2014TV SeriesHimself
The View2013TV SeriesHimself
Dancing with the Stars2013TV SeriesHimself - Contestant
Hub Network's First Annual Halloween Bash2013TV MovieHimself
Why with Nye2013Video shortHimself
The Arsenio Hall Show2013TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Good Morning America2013TV SeriesHimself - Guest
The Nerdist2013TV SeriesHimself
Larry King Now2013TV SeriesHimself - Guest
EcoDivas TV2012-2013TV SeriesHimself
On Begley Street2013TV SeriesHimself
Solution Earth a New Beginning2012Video documentary
The War Room with Michael Shure2012TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Sandy: The Anatomy of a Superstorm2012TV Movie documentaryHimself
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy: Renewable Energy2012Video shortHimself - Host
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy2011Video shortHimself
Living with Ed2007-2009TV SeriesHimself
Solving for X2009TV SeriesHimself
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire2008-2009TV SeriesHimself - Guest Expert
Nova2009TV Series documentaryHimself - Science Educator
The Bonnie Hunt Show2008TV SeriesHimself
Gravity's Effect on Humans with Bill Nye the Science Guy2008Video shortHimself
Stuff Happens Hosted by Bill Nye2008TV SeriesHimself - Host
Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye2007TV Mini-SeriesHimself
America's Most Smartest Model2007TV SeriesHimself
This Week2006TV SeriesHimself
Last Stop Kew Gardens2006Video documentary
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005TV SeriesHimself
Larry King Live2005TV SeriesHimself
TV Land's Top Ten2005TV Series documentaryHimself
First Look2004TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host (as Bill Nye the Science Guy)
VH1 Big in 032003TV SpecialHimself
Countdown to Mars2003TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host (as Bill Nye the Science Guy)
Bill Nye and Debbie Allen Imagine Mars2002TV MovieHimself
Win Ben Stein's Money2001TV SeriesHimself
Turn Ben Stein On2000TV SeriesHimself
Hollywood Squares1999TV SeriesHimself
The Rosie O'Donnell Show1999TV SeriesHimself
The 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards1999TV SpecialHimself - Winner: Outstanding Children's Series
Bill Nye, the Science Guy1993-1998TV Series documentaryHimself - Host / Himself
The 25th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards1998TV SpecialHimself - Winner: Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien1998TV SeriesHimself
Absent Minded Inventions and the Search for Flubber with Bill Nye the Science Guy1997TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood1997TV SeriesHimself
Ellen's Energy Adventure1996VideoHimself
Space Ghost Coast to Coast1996TV SeriesHimself
Crook & Chase1996TV SeriesHimself
Walt Disney World Inside Out1994TV Series documentaryHimself - Segment

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Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2000Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
2000Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1999Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1998Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1998Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1997Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1996Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2000Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1999Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1999Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1998Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1997Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)
1997Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Performer in a Children's SeriesBill Nye, the Science Guy (1993)

Known for movies

An Honest Liar (2014)
as Himself - The Science Guy

StarTalk (2015-2016)
as Himself

Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993-1998)
as Writer

Ellen's Energy Adventure (1996)
as Himself