Dave Filoni Net Worth

What Is Dave Filoni's Net Worth?

Dave Filoni is an American animation director, writer, animator, and voice actor who has a net worth of $10 million.

Dave Filoni served on the animation staff for the television series "King of the Hill" from 1997 to 2004 and "The Oblongs" from 2001 to 2002. Filoni was a director for the TV series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in 2005. He directed the film "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" in 2008 and the series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," which he wrote and did voice work for, from 2008 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018, Dave served as supervising director, writer, executive producer, and voice artist for the television series "Star Wars Rebels." In 2015, Filoni had a voice cameo in the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." He won Daytime Emmy Awards in 2013 and 2014 for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program for "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." In 2023, Filoni became the Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm, and in early 2026, it was announced that he had been promoted to president of the company.

Early Life

Dave Filoni was born David Filoni on June 7, 1974, in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He has Italian heritage, and he is the son of Patricia and Albert Filoni. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1992, he earned an animation degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1996. His father was a fan of opera and classical music, and Filoni inherited an appreciation for classical music from him.

Career

Before working for Lucasfilm Animation, Filoni was a storyboard artist and / or an assistant director for animated series such as "Kim Possible," "King of the Hill," and "Teamo Supremo." Dave was then hired as a storyboard artist and director for the first season of the Nickelodeon series "Avatar: The Last Airbender," which began airing in 2005. He left Nickelodeon after "Star Wars" creator George Lucas offered him a job helping to develop an animated "Star Wars" series. That show was "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," and it aired on the Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2013, on Netflix in 2014, and on Disney+ in 2020. Filoni served as a supervising producer, executive producer, writer, and development artist on the series, which won two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program; he also voiced Enzo the bounty hunter. In 2008, he directed the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" animated film, which grossed $68.5 million against an $8.5 million budget. In 2009, Filoni became an Honorary Member of the "Star Wars" costuming organization the 501st Legion. From 2014 to 2018, he worked on the animated Disney XD series "Star Wars Rebels" as a supervising producer, executive producer, writer, and storyboard artist. Dave co-created the series with Simon Kinberg and Carrie Beck, and it won two Saturn Awards for Best Animated Series or Film on Television.

On 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Filoni voiced a Screaming Jakku villager and worked in the art department as a live-action film / concept artist, then he voiced Chopper in 2016's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." From 2017 to 2018, he was an executive producer and storyboard artist on the animated YouTube web series "Star Wars Forces of Destiny," and he voiced Chopper in that project as well. In 2019, Jon Favreau asked Dave to help him create the live-action Disney+ "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian." Filoni was a writer, director, and executive producer on the series, which aired from 2019 to 2023, and he played Trapper Wolf on the show. Dave also executive produced the "Star Wars" shows "The Book of Boba Fett" (2021–2022), "Ahsoka" (2023–present), and "Skeleton Crew" (2024–2025). He created "Ahsoka," and he is a writer and director on the show in addition to voicing Chopper. In mid-2020, Filoni was promoted to executive creative director and executive producer of Lucasfilm, but his promotion wasn't announced until May 2021. In the fall of 2023, he was promoted again, this time to the position of chief creative officer, and he told Vanity Fair, "In the past, in a lot of projects I would be brought into it, I would see it after it had already developed a good ways. In this new role, it's opened up to basically everything that's going on. When we're planning the future of what we're doing now, I'm involved at the inception phase." In early 2026, he became the president of Lucasfilm.

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Personal Life

Filoni is married to E. Anne Convery, whose short story "Bug" was included in the 2020 book "The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark." Dave named the yellow-feathered birds in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" "convors" after Anne's surname.

Awards and Nominations

Filoni has received six Daytime Emmy nominations for "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," winning for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program in 2013 and 2014. He was also nominated in that category in 2015, and his other nominations were for Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (2013 and 2015) and Outstanding Writing Team for a Daytime Animated Program (2021). Dave has earned seven Primetime Emmy nominations: Outstanding Children's Program for "Star Wars: Rebels" (2017 and 2018) and "Star Wars: Resistance" (2019 and 2020), Outstanding Drama Series for "The Mandalorian" (2020 and 2021), and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "The Mandalorian" (2021). In 2021, "The Mandalorian" earned Filoni a Gold Derby Award for Drama Episode ("Chapter 13: The Jedi") as well as a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form, a PGA Award nomination for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Drama Series. In 2024, Dave was honored  with the George Pal Memorial Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, and in 2025, "Star Wars: Tales of the Empire" received a nomination for Best TV Production at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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