Sheryl Lee Ralph Net Worth

Sheryl Lee Ralph is a Jamaican-American singer and activist who has a net worth of $5 million. Ralph began acting in the 1970s and made her film debut in 1977 with “A Piece Of The Action”. Later starred in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit and To Sleep With Anger.

Ralph achieved success on television, appearing in a number of soap operas and sitcoms. She went to school to study medicine but soon changed her major to performing arts, becoming the youngest woman to graduate from Rutgers University.

She is no stranger to hard effort, having previously had a successful Broadway career. The highlight of her career was playing Deena Jones in Dreamgirls. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and starred in Wicked and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

She was a multi-talented artist who produced an album called In The Evening in 1984 and penned an autobiography called Redefining Diva: Life Lessons From The Original Dreamgirl. She has also produced Divas Simply Singing, which has become a major AIDS fundraiser as an activist.

Sheryl Lee Ralph Net Worth (2024)

Net Worth:	$5 Million
Profession:	Singer
Country:	United States
Born:	30 December 1956
Salary (Annual):	$500 Thousand Per Year
Last Updated	2024

Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Net Worth Growth

Net Worth in 2024	$8 Million
Net Worth in 2023	$7 Million
Net Worth in 2022	$6 Million
Net Worth in 2021	$5 Million
Net Worth in 2020	$4 Million

Early Life

Sheryl Lee Ralph was born on 30th December 1956 in Waterbury, Connecticut to Stanley Ralph, a college professor, and Ivy Ralph O.D., a Jamaican fashion designer and the inventor of the Kariba suit.

She is descended from the Tikar people of Cameroon and grew up in Mandeville, Jamaica, and Long Island. She also has a younger brother, actor and comedian Michael Ralph. However, Ralph’s passion for performing led her to pursue a career in the arts instead of medicine.

Career

Ralph attended Uniondale High School in Uniondale, New York, where she performed in a high school production of Oklahoma! , as Ado Annie, and graduated in 1972. She had previously been crowned Miss Black Teenage New York.

Ralph who graduated from Rutgers University at the age of 19 was the school’s first female student to receive the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. She was also one of the school’s inaugural students to receive the award.

Glamour magazine also named Ralph one of the top ten college women in America that year. She originally planned to study medicine, but after handling cadavers in a pre-med class and winning a scholarship at the American College Theater Festival.

She decided to pursue the performing arts instead. Many years later, she was the Rutgers Class of 2003 commencement speaker. Ralph made her cinematic debut in 1977 with the comedy film A Piece of the Action.

Breakthrough

She started out in the theatre in the 1977 Broadway musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Her breakthrough role was as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, for which she received a Primetime Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award.

In 1984, Ralph released her only album, In the Evening, and the title single hit No. 6 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles list that same year. In 1991, she was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for her performance in the drama film To Sleep with Anger.

Other films in which she has appeared include The Mighty Quinn, The Distinguished Gentleman, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and Deterrence. She featured in the syndicated sitcom It’s a Living from 1986-1989, and then in the ABC sitcom New Attitude and the CBS medical drama Street Gear.

She played Dee Mitchell in the sitcom Moesha from 1996-2001, and Maggie Turner in the Nick at Nite series Instant Mom from 2013-2015. In 2012, Ralph wrote an autobiography titled Redefining Diva: Life Lessons and appeared on Broadway as Madame Morrible in Wicked in 2016.

Recent Projects

Ralph is presently starring in Abbott Elementary for which she won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards for her role-making history as the first black woman to do so in 35 years.

Sherly Lee Ralph has recently been in the short-lived How We Roll, Motherland: Fort Salem, the upcoming Harlem’s Kitchen pilot, The Young Wife, Big Shot, A Fall from Grace and perhaps Cooking4Luv.

Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Favorite Things

Favorite Actor	Robert Downey Jr.
Favorite Actress	Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite Singer	Justin Bieber
Favorite App	Instagram
Favorite Game	N/A
Favorite Food	Not Know
Favorite Song	Not Know
Favorite Sportsman	Jayson Tatum
Favorite Movie	Spider-Man™: Far From Home
Favorite Footballer	Cristiano Ronaldo
Favorite TV Show	Not Know
Hobbies	Driving, Traveling

About Sheryl Lee Ralph

Net Worth	$8 Million
Name	Sheryl Lee Ralph
Age	66 Years Old
Height	(1.65 M)
Weight	60 KG (Approx)
Profession	Actor
Date Of Birth	30 December 1956
Birthplace	Waterbury, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Income	$500,000 per year
Spouse	Eric Maurice

“To anyone who has ever—ever—had a dream, and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever, ever give up on you! .”

– Sheryl Lee Ralph

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Personal Life

From 1990 to 2001, Ralph was married to French businessman Eric Maurice, with whom he has two children. Ralph has been married to state senator Vincent Hughes of Pennsylvania since 2005.

Awards and Achievements

Throughout her career, Ralph has won several awards and nominations. She has won Independent Spirit Award in 1990 for Best Supporting Female for the film To Sleep with Anger and Primetime Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Supporting Actress.

She also won a Tony Award Nomination and 6 NAACP Awards almost all for her role in Moesha. Ralph was inducted as an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. At Tougaloo College in 2008, She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

Summary

As of 2024, Sheryl Lee Ralph’s net worth is estimated to be $5 million. She earns around $500,000 per year from her acting and singing careers. She has a large fan following on Instagram and Twitter.

She has 454k followers on Ig and 164.9k followers on Twitter. She amassed her fortune initially as a stage artist and then eventually became a famous actress and singer. Ralph also made millions as royalties from Spotify and other music streaming sites.

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