Cameron Mackintosh Net Worth

What Is Cameron Mackintosh's Net Worth?

Sir Cameron Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer who has a net worth of $1.1 billion. Cameron Mackintosh is most famous for his association with many commercially successful musicals. He is the producer of shows such as "Les Misérables," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Mary Poppins," "Martin Guerre," "Cats," and "Hamilton." The New York Times described him as "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" in 1990. Cameron started his theatre career as a stagehand at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in his late teens, then he started producing his own small-scale tours before he became a London-based producer in the '70s. Some of Mackintosh's early London productions included "Anything Goes," "Side By Side by Sondheim," "The Card," "My Fair Lady," and "Tom Foolery. "The Phantom of the Opera" is the longest-running show in the history of Broadway and the second longest-running musical in West End history, and "Les Misérables" is the West End's longest-running musical and the sixth longest-running Broadway show. In 1996, Mackintosh was knighted for services to musical theatre, and in 2014, he became the first British producer to be inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Early Life

Cameron Mackintosh was born Cameron Anthony Mackintosh on October 17, 1946, in Enfield, London, England. His mother, Diana, was a production secretary, and his father, Ian, was a jazz trumpeter and timber merchant. Ian was Scottish, and Diana was of French and Maltese descent. When Cameron was eight years old, his aunt took him to a stage production of the musical "Salad Days," and he subsequently decided that he wanted to become a theatre producer. Mackintosh attended Prior Park College. His brother, Robert, also grew up to be a producer.

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Career

As a teenager, Cameron worked at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as a stagehand, then he served as an assistant stage manager on touring productions. In 1967, he co-produced five plays with Robin Alexander at the Kenton Theatre, Henley, then he began producing small tours on his own. Mackintosh's early London productions included "Anything Goes" (1969), "Side by Side by Sondheim" (1976), and "My Fair Lady" (1978). He produced the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" in 1981, and it became that season's hit and ended up becoming one of the top 10 longest-running shows on both Broadway and the West End. "Cats" earned 10 Tony nominations, winning seven of them, including Best Musical. Next, Cameron approached Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about producing their musical "Les Misérables" in London. "Les Misérables" was eventually a huge hit and became the world's second longest-running musical. "Les Misérables" was named Best Musical at the 1987 Tony Awards and also won seven other Tonys. In 1986, Mackintosh produced his second Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, "The Phantom of the Opera," which became the longest-running show in the history of Broadway and the second longest-running musical in West End history. "The Phantom of the Opera" earned Cameron his third Tony Award for Best Musical, and it won seven awards out of 10 nominations. The West End production won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

In 1989, Mackintosh produced another Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil musical, "Miss Saigon," at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In 1991, the musical made its Broadway debut after selling more than $39 million in advance tickets. The musical attracted controversy, with Asian American actors protesting the casting of Caucasian actors to play to Eurasian or Asian characters as well as the use of yellowface in one of the roles. Despite the controversy, "Miss Saigon" received 11 Tony nominations, winning three of them. In 1995, Cameron produced a 10th anniversary "Les Misérables" concert in London. He was also responsible for producing West End transfers of National Theatre revivals of "Carousel," "Oklahoma!," and "My Fair Lady" in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1990, Cameron became a co-owner of Music Theatre International, a theatrical licensing company, and the following year, he launched Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, which owns the London theatres the Sondheim, the Prince Edward, the Victoria Palace, the Prince of Wales, the Gielgud, the Novello, the Noël Coward, and the Wyndham's.

Cameron produced a stage musical of "Mary Poppins" in London in 2004 and on Broadway in 2006, followed by a revival of the Lionel Bart musical "Oliver!" in London in 2008. In 2010, he produced a London revival of "Hair," and in 2014, he relaunched "Miss Saigon" in London to celebrate the musical's 25th anniversary. In 2017, he produced the London transfer of the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical "Hamilton," and it won seven Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. Mackintosh has also produced musicals such as "Godspell," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Carousel," "Avenue Q," "Kinky Boots," and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," and he produced the 2012 film adaptation of "Les Misérables," which won more than 80 awards and grossed $442.8 million at the box office.

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Personal Life

Cameron's longtime partner is theatre photographer Michael Le Poer Trench, who he met at the opening night of 1982 production of "Oklahoma!" in Australia. In 2005 and 2006, Sunday's Pink List in The Independent ranked Mackintosh the fourth most influential "out-and-proud" Briton. He is a patron of the London charity The Food Chain, whose mission is to "ensure that people living with HIV can access the nutrition they need to get well, stay well and lead healthy, independent lives." In 1998, Cameron was included on a list of the Labour Party's biggest private financial donors. He later regretted the decision, and in a 2010 interview with The Independent, he stated, "Labour really fucked it up. They were profligate at a time when we were doing well. That's why we have the problems we have now. They didn't save any money for a rainy day. It couldn't have been worse these last 12 years. Over the next generation, the one thing we will all have to face is the common sense approach of 'Can we afford it?" In 2015, he donated £25,000 to David Warburton, the Conservative candidate for Somerton and Frome in the British general election.

Awards and Nominations

Mackintosh has won Tony Awards for Best Musical for "Cats" (1983), "Les Misérables" (1987), and "The Phantom of the Opera" (1988) and Best Revival of a Musical for "Carousel" (1994). He has earned nine Drama Desk Award nominations, taking home the prize for Outstanding Musical for "Little Shop of Horrors" (1983) and "Les Misérables" (1987) and Unique Theatrical Experience for "Swan Lake" (1999). For the 2012 film adaptation of "Les Misérables," Cameron received an Academy Award nomination for Best Motion Picture of the Year and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Film and the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. The film also earned him a Christopher Award, a Hollywood Film Award, and an Awards Circuit Community Awards as well as nominations from the PGA Awards, Online Film & Television Association Awards, and AACTA International Awards. In 2022, Mackintosh received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for "Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (The Sensational 2020 Live Recording)."

Real Estate

In 2021, Mackintosh put his 4,776-square-foot London home on the market for £8 million (which equals $11.2 million in U.S. dollars). Famed architect John Nash designed the four-bedroom home, known as the Tower House, in the early 1800s.

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