Hamish Linklater Net Worth

What is Hamish Linklater's Net Worth?

Hamish Linklater is an American actor, screenwriter, and director who has a net worth of $4 million. Hamish Linklater is known for his roles in such television series as "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "The Crazy Ones," "Legion," and "Midnight Mass." His film credits include "Groove," "The Future," "One More Time," "The Big Short," and "Paper Year," and his theater credits include the world premieres of "Seminar," "Posterity," and "The Pain of My Belligerence."

Early Life and Education

Hamish Linklater was born on July 7, 1976 in New York City to Kristin Linklater and James Cormeny. His mother was a Scottish-born vocal and acting coach who taught at Columbia University, and his father was an actor and stage builder. Linklater was raised by his single mother partly in the Berkshires, where she co-founded Shakespeare & Company. He began acting in Shakespeare plays when he was just eight years old. After graduating from Commonwealth School in Boston in 1994, Linklater attended Amherst College.

Television Career

Linklater had his first major television role from 2000 to 2001, playing Dr. Bruce Cherry on the short-lived ABC medical drama "Gideon's Crossing." After that, he portrayed CNN reporter Richard Roth in the 2002 HBO television film "Live from Baghdad." Following roles in the NBC series "American Dreams" and the Sci Fi Channel miniseries "Five Days to Midnight" in 2004, Linklater began his biggest television role yet on the CBS sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine." He played Matthew Kimble, the live-in brother of Julia Louis-Dreyfus's titular Christine. Linklater appeared in every episode of the series, which ran for five seasons from 2006 to 2010. During that time, he had guest roles on the ABC shows "Pushing Daisies" and "Ugly Betty." Linklater went on to appear on "The Big C," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," and "The Good Wife." In 2013, he played the recurring role of Jerry Dantana on HBO's "The Newsroom" and began playing the main role of Andrew Keanelly on the CBS sitcom "The Crazy Ones." The latter show was canceled in 2014 after a single season.

In 2017, Linklater had a recurring role in the third season of the FX anthology series "Fargo." He also began playing Clark Debussy in the FX superhero series "Legion," initially a recurring character before becoming a main character for the show's second and third seasons. After the end of "Legion" in 2019, Linklater appeared in episodes of "Monsterland" and "The Stand' in 2020. He went on to have a big year in 2021, first starring in the Amazon Prime Video series "Tell Me Your Secrets" and then in the acclaimed Netflix miniseries "Midnight Mass." Linklater was in two more miniseries in 2022: Starz's "Gaslit," in which he portrayed disgraced political operative Jeb Magruder, and Peacock's "Angelyne," in which he played the fictional Rick Krause. Next, in 2024, Linklater portrayed Abraham Lincoln in the Apple TV+ miniseries "Manhunt." Also that year, he began voicing the titular superhero in the Amazon Prime Video animated series "Batman: Caped Crusader." For the same streamer, Linklater played Dean Cipher in the second season of the satirical superhero series "Gen V" in 2025.

Film Career

Linklater made his big-screen debut in the 2000 film "Groove," playing an introverted writer who comes alive after being taken to an underground rave. His subsequent credits included "Final Draft," "Fantastic Four," and "The Violent Kind." In 2011, Linklater starred opposite Miranda July in July's film "The Future." He followed that with roles in the military science-fiction action film "Battleship" and the romantic comedy "Lola Versus." In 2013, Linklater starred in "Redemption Trail" and portrayed Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the Jackie Robinson biopic "42." The next year, he was in "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn" and Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight." Linklater was in three films in 2015: "One More Time," "Ithaca," and the Oscar-winning "The Big Short," in which he portrayed rower and investor Porter Collins. He was in another three films in 2017: "Paper Year," "You Can't Say No," and a modernized adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

In 2019, Linklater appeared in the fantasy dramedy "Unicorn Store," directed by and starring Brie Larson. He subsequently starred opposite Christina Ricci in the 2020 romcom "10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up." Linklater's next film role was as the villainous Martin Kidd in Walter Hill's 2022 Western action thriller "Dead for a Dollar." He went on to step behind the camera to co-direct the film "Downtown Owl" with his wife Lily Rabe. Linklater also wrote the film, an adaptation of the Chuck Klosterman novel of the same name. "Downtown Owl" premiered at the Tribeca Festival in 2023 before being released theatrically in 2024. In the latter year, Linklater had a small part in RaMell Ross's acclaimed drama "Nickel Boys." His credits after that included the romantic fantasy film "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey" and the crime thriller "The Whisper Man," based on the novel of the same name by Alex North.

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Stage Career

In the 1990s, Linklater acted in such plays as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Chemistry of Change," and "Hamlet." He would reprise the titular role in "Hamlet" after that in various local productions. Linklater also appeared in such plays as "Good Thing," "Recent Tragic Events," "The Singing Forest," and "The Busy World is Hushed." In 2009, he made his Shakespeare in the Park debut in "Twelfth Night." Linklater returned to Shakespeare in the Park in 2010 with roles in "The Winter's Tale" and "The Merchant of Venice." In 2011, he acted in the world premieres of two plays: David Ives's "The School for Lies" and Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar." The latter marked his Broadway debut.

Linklater returned to Shakespeare in the Park in 2013 with a role in "The Comedy of Errors." Over the subsequent years, he appeared in Shakespeare in the Park productions of "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Cymbeline." In 2015, Linklater starred in the world premiere of Doug Wright's "Posterity" off-Broadway, portraying Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. He later appeared in a Hollywood Bowl production of "Mamma Mia!" in 2017. Linklater followed that with roles in "Henry IV" at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and the world premiere of Halley Feiffer's "The Pain of My Belligerence" at Playwrights Horizon.

Personal Life

Linklater was married to his first wife, playwright and screenwriter Jessica Goldberg, from 2002 until their divorce in 2012. They had one child together, a daughter. Linklater went on to begin a relationship with actress Lily Rabe in 2013. They had their first child together, a daughter, in 2017, followed by another daughter in 2020. The couple had a son in 2022.

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