Brandon Barash Net Worth

What is Brandon Barash's Net Worth?

Brandon Barash is an American actor who has a net worth of $1 million. Brandon Barash is best known for playing Johnny Zacchara on the ABC soap opera "General Hospital" and Stefan DiMera and Jake DiMera on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives." He also had recurring roles on "Gilmore Girls" and "Major Crimes."

Early Life and Education

Brandon Barash was born on October 4, 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jewish parents. He has a brother and a half-sister. When Barash was four years old, his parents divorced, and he subsequently moved in with his father in Calabasas, California. A year after his bar mitzvah, he moved with his father to Houston, Texas. Barash attended Memorial High School and played high school basketball until a knee injury forced him to end his career. He became involved in acting after his girlfriend got him an audition for a school musical and he landed the role. For his higher education, Barash attended the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a BFA in acting in 2002.

Television Career

Just a couple of months after graduating from college, Barash made his television debut on the show "Gilmore Girls." He played Jamie, the boyfriend of Liza Weil's character Paris Geller, in three episodes between 2002 and 2004. During that time, Barash also had guest roles on "Threat Matrix" and "The West Wing." He went on to appear in episodes of "24," "NCIS," and "Tell Me You Love Me." Barash had his breakout role in 2007 when he began playing Johnny Zacchara on the ABC soap opera "General Hospital." He was the son of Claudia Zacchara and Gino Soleito. Barash originally played Johnny until 2013; he returned in late 2014 and remained in the role until early 2016. During his time on "General Hospital," Barash guest-starred on such shows as "Bones" and "CSI: Cyber" and played the recurring role of Detective Robby Oderno on the TNT police procedural series "Major Crimes." He also portrayed actor Thomas Calabro in the Lifetime television film "The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story," which premiered in 2015.

In 2017, Barash portrayed writer Ernest Hemingway in an episode of the NBC science-fiction series "Timeless." Also that year, he was in episodes of the CBS series "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders" and "Scorpion." In 2018, Barash guest-starred on "The Last Ship" and "Lucifer." He returned to soap opera acting in 2019 when he began playing Stefan DiMera on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives," replacing Tyler Christopher in the role. Barash played Stefan until the character was killed off toward the end of 2019. Subsequently, in 2020, he began playing Jake Lambert, who was later revealed to be Stefan's unknown twin brother Jake. After Jake was killed off in 2022, Stefan was brought back from the dead, and Barash stepped back into the role, which he played through 2024. While he was on "Days of Our Lives," Barash appeared in three episodes of the Freeform series "Good Trouble" between 2019 and 2022.

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Film Career

Although mostly known for television, Barash has made some appearances on the big screen. He played Roger in the 2005 action film "Crash Landing" and the boyfriend of Lyndsy Fonseca's character in the 2006 period thriller "Intellectual Property." Barash later acted in the short films "The Mourning Hour" (2014) and "Sedation" (2017).

Rock Bands

With his former "General Hospital" co-stars Scott Reeves, Steve Burton, and Bradford Anderson, Barash was a member of the rock band Port Chuck. Elsewhere, he played in the Day Players Band with his former "Days of Our Lives" co-stars Wally Kurth, Eric Martsolf, and Carson Boatman.

Personal Life

Barash previously dated Canadian actress Natalie Hall, to whom he got engaged in 2011. They eventually split, and Barash began dating his former "General Hospital" co-star Kirsten Storms. Barash and Storms married in 2013 and had a daughter, Harper, early the next year. They divorced in 2016. Barash later started dating schoolteacher Isabella Devoto, whom he married in late 2022. They had a son, Joaquin, in September of 2023.

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