Susan Yeagley is an American actress famous for her guest roles in shows like ER, Friends, Reno 911, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Miracles, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Everybody Loves Raymond. Her performance as Jessica Wicks in nine episodes of Parks and Recreation is one of the major roles in her career. Yeagley has mostly had paltry roles in the shows and movies she gets. Despite this, she has been able to impress both the audience and the costars she's worked with on those projects, primarily as a comedy actor.
Not only is Nashville native Susan Yeagley a staunch supporter of the LGBT community, but she's also one of Hollywood's funniest women sharing the screen with the likes of Amy Poehler, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, and husband, Kevin Nealon. Yeagley has been in Hollywood ever since her early teens through various commercials as a child actor and always followed on with that path resulting in the acting career that she currently has.
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Early Life, Family, And Education
Susan Melinda Yeagley was born on the 27th of February of 1971 and is of German ethnicity. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Yeagley has been cited to be a descendant of Mayflower pilgrims via her mother's lineage. Though the fact has not been mentioned about who Susan Yeagley's parents are or who her siblings are, she has mentioned how her mother encouraged her to audition for a music video role. Likewise, her parents were a major part of her start in Hollywood and are still very supportive of what Susan does.
Susan Yeagley during her teenage years. Image Source: Susan's Instagram.
At the age of 10 or 11, Susan would beg her mom to do theater or local commercials. After few tries, Susan eventually got cast in an Amy Grant music video, for which she was compensated with $25 and a music CD which she considered to be a blast. Subsequently, Susan did a Mickey Gilley video playing as one of the children and played a kid in Johnny Cash Christmas Specials. All these ventures were a great way for Kevin Nealon's wife to get her leg in and learn the job of being an actress, a gaffer or a lighting person, or a director.
When Susan Yeagley graduated from high school and had a few commercials under her belt, she decided to apply for the University of Southern California and went to a film school there. Susan got a Bachelors's degree in Arts and graduated with magna cum laude from USC. Thereafter, Susan joined The Groundlings Theatre and School to further her acting skills and joined the improv group there. Her improving class and an audition for a drama series she performed in a humorous manner got her interested in comedy. Susan loved her time in Groundlings and still attends some classes there to stretch out her comedy muscles.
Well, Susan's acting works in commercials, and her academic background helped her develop the career that she has.
Career And Countless TV Appearances
Susan Yeagley's career is not filled with starring roles in Oscars-winning movies or Emmys-winning TV shows, but her trifling roles in more than twenty-five TV shows and fifteen movies is what spikes her success in such an onerous industry. Susan got her official start in Hollywood through the 1998 movie The Thin Pink Line, where she played Chauncey's New Wife. A year later, Susan made her debut in NBC sitcom Jesse as a student in two episodes.
During the course of her career, Susan Yeagley has been involved in movies such as Almost Famous, and I'm not Gay, The Lucky Ones, Blended, and the 2018 movie Action Point as the Adult Boogie Carver. Despite having such movies under her belt, most of her notable roles emanate through her television projects.
Susan Yeagley's career bearing more than 25 shows, encompasses guest roles and recurring roles in some of TV's most classic shows, such as Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Curb your Enthusiasm, and most notably, Parks and Recreation.
The numerous acting projects Kevin Nealon's wife, Susan, has been involved in must surely bring in huge earnings, adding to Susan Yeagley's net worth. Actress Mara Lane, also known as Jonathan Rhys Meyers' wife, has found fame and fortune from her career.
Susan Yeagley Net Worth And Earnings
Susan Yeagley's involvement in all the work she has done since her initial project would have surely gathered up to be a good sum. As per ProjectCasting, actors with minor roles in movies tend to earn $9 an hour to $90 an hour depending on the actor's name in Hollywood, which translates to $500 to $5K per week for 8-hour workdays.
On the other hand, a TV show guest would earn about $5K to $8K per week. A regular actor with a minor role could make $500 to $2K a week. Susan's more notable part in shows like Rules of Engagement, Eddie and Jeff, Parks and Recreation, Reno 911 would surely increase that figure by quite a bit. The sheer quantity of her work and the fact that the talented actress is quite well known in the show biz would accumulate the earnings and Susan Yeadley's net worth to quite a substantial amount.
The wealth generated through all these projects, along with her husband, Kevin Nealon's net worth of $8.5 million, would surely allow the couple to live a comfortable life.
Married to Kevin Nealon
The talented and charismatic actress got married to Kevin Nealon in 2005. The couple got married in an effusive ceremony in Bellagio in Italy. Susan Yeagley's husband is a talented actor and a comedian famous for being a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live during the show's gold era. The comedian was previously married to Linda Dupree before he met Susan.
Susan and Kevin have a strong affection for each other, due to which they have been able to stay strong in a loving and passionate relationship for more than 15 years now. Fans adore the couple and can not get enough of their interaction, just like when they appeared together in Celebrity Family Feud and also in Hiking With Kevin.
Susan Yeagley has been married to Kevin Nealon since 2005. Image Source: Susan's Instagram.
Two years into her marriage with Kevin, Susan had the pleasure of being a mother. On 29th January of 2007, Kevin Nealon and Susan Yeagley's son was born. Their son, who appeared on his father's TV show Kevin's Laugh Lesson in 2014, is named Gable Ness Nealon and is the only child in the family. The kid enjoys a happy and fulfilling childhood along with his parents living in Los Angeles, California.
Susan Yeagley enjoys a blissful life with her family, and we hope her happiness lasts through her lifetime.
Trivia
- Susan is a co-founder of the Leaky Pen comedy writing contest.
- Susan Yeagley is 5 feet 8 inches tall.
- Susan has blue-colored eyes.
