Revealed: Jay Chandrasekhar ( Updated) Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

As one of the most talked-about figures, Jay Chandrasekhar has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

What Is Jay Chandrasekhar's Net Worth?

Jay Chandrasekhar is an American actor, director, writer, producer, and comedian who has a net worth of $5 million. A member of the Broken Lizard sketch comedy group, Chandrasekhar has starred in and directed films such as "Super Troopers" (2001), "Club Dread" (2004), and "Beerfest" (2006) as well as episodes of numerous television shows, including "Arrested Development" (2003–2004), "Psych" (2008–2012), "Chuck" (2008–2012), "Community" (2010–2015), "Happy Endings" (2011–2012), "New Girl" (2014–2018), and "The Goldbergs" (2014–2021).

In 2001 Broken Lizard self-funded the movie "Super Troopers" on a budget of $1.5 million. The movie went on to earn $23.5 million and became a huge success later on DVD.

Broken Lizard, which also includesKevin Heffernan,Steve Lemme,Paul Soter, andErik Stolhanske, wrote "Super Troopers," "Club Dread," and Beerfest" as well as the films "Puddle Cruiser" (1996), "The Slammin' Salmon" (2009) and "Super Troopers 2" (2018) and the comedy special "Broken Lizard Stands Up" (2010). Jay produced "Puddle Cruiser" and 2012's "The Babymakers," and he directed both films. In 2005, he was featured on "Fade In" magazine's "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know" list, and he published the book "Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy" in 2017.

Early Life

Jay Chandrasekhar was born Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar on April 9, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Hema and Arcot, are doctors who are originally from India. Jay was born at the hospital where his parents worked, Cook County Hospital. Chandrasekhar has two sisters who are both lawyers. Jay attended Lake Forest Academy, a boarding school, then he enrolled at Colgate University in New York, where he joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and founded the sketch comedy group Charred Goosebeak. At Colgate, he majored in European history and minored in philosophy, graduating in 1990. Chandrasekhar also attended Loyola University in Chicago for a semester.

Career

After college, Jay and the other members of Charred Goosebeak moved to New York City and became known as Broken Lizard. The group spent a few years performing at colleges and clubs before turning their focus to filmed content, beginning with the 1994 short film "Tinfoil Monkey Agenda." Chandrasekhar made his directorial debut with the 1996 film "Puddle Cruiser," which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. In 2001, he directed "Super Troopers" and starred as Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn in the film. Jay reprised the role in 2018's "Super Troopers 2," and in July of that year, he announced that the members of Broken Lizard had begun writing the script for "Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers." In 2001, Chandrasekhar directed his first television series, the "Rush and Pledge" episode of Fox's "Undeclared." He directed two more episodes of the series, then he directed a 2003 episode of "Andy RichterControls the Universe" and four episodes of "Arrested Development" in 2003 and 2004. Jay then directed 2004's "Club Dread" (appearing as Putman in the film), 2005's "The Dukes of Hazzard," and 2006's "Beerfest" (starring as Barry Badrinath). He directed the 2008 TV movie "Held Up," and in 2009, he worked with his cousin,Sendhil Ramamurthy, in the film "The Slammin' Salmon" and the "Psych" episode "Bollywood Homicide." Chandrasekhar also directed the episode as well as three other episodes of "Psych."

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