Dan Castellaneta (American Actor) – Net Worth, Friends, Homer, Salary

Dan Castellaneta is an American voice actor and comedian widely known as the voice of ‘Homer Simpson’ in the hugely popular adult comedy animated series ‘The Simpsons’. He has also provided voiceovers for several other popular characters like ‘Barney Gumble’, ‘Krusty the Clown’, ‘Sideshow Mel’, and ‘Groundskeeper Willie’ in the same show. Castellaneta is equally famous for lending his voice to various characters in television programs and films like ‘Darkwing Duck’, ‘The Adventures of Dynamo Duck’, ‘Back to the Future: The Animated Series’, ‘Aladdin’, and ‘Hey Arnold!’. The versatile actor has won the Annie Award two times and the Emmy Award four times in his career that has spanned over three decades. The son of an amateur actor, Castellaneta was inspired by his father’s comic acts and used to listen to his records while growing up.

Dan Castellaneta Biography

Castellaneta was born as Daniel Louis Castellaneta in Chicago, Illinois, on October 29, 1957, to Elsie Castellaneta, a home maker, and Louis Castellaneta, an amateur actor who also worked in the printing industry. He used to listen to his father’s recordings with much delight and was very enthusiastic about acting and comedy. After seeing his passion, his mother put him in an acting class for children. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School and after graduating, he began attending the Northern Illinois University in 1975. He studied art education with the aim of becoming an art teacher in the future. While serving as a student teacher, he would entertain his students with his voiceover skills.

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Career: After graduating from the Northern Illinois University in 1979, Dan Castellaneta joined the show business and began his acting career. He began taking improvisation classes and joined The Second City, an improvisational comedy enterprise, in 1983. He worked with them for four years. Castellaneta tried for a role in ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’, an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman, but was not convincing enough in his audition to impress Ullman. However, Ullman later attended one of Castellaneta’s shows where he played the role of a blind man. Ullman was taken aback by the poignancy of his performance and later admitted that he made her cry with his act. Ullman ultimately gave him a role in her show.

During his time with the ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’ there was a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family in the show itself. When the producers required some voice actors, they asked Ullman for artists from her show rather than going for extra artists. Castellaneta auditioned for the voice of ‘Homer’ but initially he struggled to keep the voice powerful as intended by the producers. He later decided to “drop the voice down” and added a bit of humor to it. After making people fall in love with his character and his brand of humor, he also voiced several other characters in the show. Some of his popular characters on the show are ‘Grampa Simpson’, ‘Barney Gumble’, ‘Krusty the Clown’, ‘Groundskeeper Willie’, ‘Mayor Quimby’, ‘Sideshow Mel’, ‘Itchy’, ‘Kodos’, ‘Hans Moleman’, and ‘Gil Gunderson’.