Trey Parker, the voice of Cartman, Stan and Randy Marsh on South Park, is the richest voice actor in the world as of November 2026, with an estimated net worth of about $1.4 billion. His partner Matt Stone sits right behind him, after Paramount agreed in 2025 to pay $1.5 billion for the show’s streaming rights. This list ranks people whose careers rest mainly on voicing animated characters, including creators who perform their own leads.
The ground rule: the voice work has to be the job. Hollywood stars who lend their voice to a cartoon now and then built their money on camera, so they appear under special mentions rather than in the ten.
| Rank | Name | Net worth (USD) | Main source of wealth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Nancy Cartwright | $60 million | Voice of Bart Simpson |
| 9 | Mike Judge | $80 million | Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill |
| 8 | Yeardley Smith | $85 million | Voice of Lisa Simpson |
| 7 | Harry Shearer | $85 million | The Simpsons, Spinal Tap |
| 6 | Dan Castellaneta | $85 million | Voice of Homer Simpson |
| 5 | Julie Kavner | $90 million | Voice of Marge Simpson |
| 4 | Hank Azaria | $90 million | The Simpsons, film and TV acting |
| 3 | Seth MacFarlane | $400 million | Family Guy, studio deals |
| 2 | Matt Stone | $1.4 billion | South Park, The Book of Mormon |
| 1 | Trey Parker | $1.4 billion | South Park, The Book of Mormon |
The ranking
10. Nancy Cartwright: $60 million
Cartwright went to the 1987 audition for The Tracey Ullman Show expecting to read for Lisa. She asked to try the brother instead, and Bart Simpson has had her voice ever since. Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd Flanders are hers too.
Before Springfield she worked steadily in animation, and she also voiced Chuckie Finster on Rugrats for years. Like the rest of the main Simpsons cast, she has been paid a reported $300,000 to $400,000 per episode for much of the show’s run, which has now passed 780 episodes. She won an Emmy for the role in 1992.
Three and a half decades of Simpsons salaries form the base of our estimate, trimmed for her large charitable giving, which is why she trails her castmates.
9. Mike Judge: $80 million
Judge trained in physics and played bass in blues bands before he taught himself animation. A short film about two snickering teenagers landed on MTV in 1993, and Beavis and Butt-Head became a national obsession. He voices both of them.
He then co-created King of the Hill with Greg Daniels and voiced Hank Hill and Boomhauer for 13 seasons on Fox. Live action paid off too: Office Space turned into a cult hit on home video, and HBO’s Silicon Valley ran for six seasons. In 2025 King of the Hill came back on Hulu with Judge again playing Hank, and Paramount+ revived Beavis and Butt-Head before that.
Our number adds up creator fees, back-end profits on the two animated hits and his HBO producing deal. Two separate estimates both land at $75 million to $80 million.
8. Yeardley Smith: $85 million
Smith is the only main Simpsons actor who voices just one regular character. She has been Lisa since the shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, and Lisa’s saxophone has outlasted most of television.
That single role still pays like a lead. Smith took home the same per-episode salary as her castmates through each round of contract talks with Fox and then Disney. On the side she has written a novel, launched a shoe line called Marchez Vous and hosted a popular true-crime podcast.
Simpsons salaries and syndication money make up nearly all of this estimate, with a small amount for her side ventures.
7. Harry Shearer: $85 million
Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Reverend Lovejoy and Kent Brockman all come out of one throat. Shearer has done it since 1989, apart from a short contract standoff in 2015.
He was famous before The Simpsons. Shearer co-wrote and played bassist Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, and he returned for the sequel released in 2025. He has also hosted the radio show Le Show for more than 40 years and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
The figure rests mainly on his Simpsons pay since 1989, plus Spinal Tap and his writing and radio work. Published estimates put him at about $85 million.
6. Dan Castellaneta: $85 million
Castellaneta came out of Chicago’s Second City improv scene. Homer’s “D’oh” started as a scripted “annoyed grunt” that he turned into a word that now appears in English dictionaries.
Besides Homer, he voices Krusty the Clown, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie and Mayor Quimby. That range made him one of the most valuable people on the show, and he has collected Emmys for it. He has also voiced the Genie in Aladdin sequels and Earthworm Jim.
Castellaneta’s value comes almost entirely from his Simpsons salary over more than 35 seasons, with smaller sums from other voice work. Estimates for him run from $85 million to $95 million.
5. Julie Kavner: $90 million
Kavner first became known as Brenda Morgenstern on the 1970s sitcom Rhoda, which won her an Emmy. She later appeared in several Woody Allen films before Marge’s blue beehive took over her career.
She voices Marge and Marge’s twin sisters, Patty and Selma. Kavner famously refuses to promote the show and almost never gives interviews or appears in public as Marge, but she has received the same top-tier salary as her colleagues for decades.
We added up her Simpsons pay since 1989, her earlier film and TV work and modest investment growth. Two separate estimates put her at about $90 million.
4. Hank Azaria: $90 million
Azaria joined The Simpsons in its first season and took on Moe the bartender, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy and Professor Frink, among dozens of others. He stopped voicing Apu in 2020.
He earns more outside Springfield than most of his castmates. He played Phoebe’s boyfriend on Friends, starred in The Birdcage and the IFC series Brockmire, and starred in Spamalot on Broadway. Lately he has also toured with a Bruce Springsteen tribute act he formed.
The calculation counts his Simpsons salary at a reported $400,000 per episode in recent seasons, then his film, TV and stage income. Estimates range from $90 million to $120 million, and we stay at the lower end.
3. Seth MacFarlane: $400 million
MacFarlane pitched Family Guy to Fox when he was 24. He voices Peter Griffin, Stewie, Brian and Quagmire, and he created American Dad and co-created The Cleveland Show. In 2008 Fox signed him to a deal reported at about $100 million, then one of the largest ever for a TV writer.
He moved his company, Fuzzy Door, to NBCUniversal in 2020 under a deal worth about $200 million. Movies added more: Ted grossed about $550 million worldwide and led to a 2024 Peacock series. He also created and starred in the sci-fi series The Orville, and he released several jazz albums.
We started from his studio deals, Family Guy back-end profits and Ted earnings, then added property. Estimates run from $300 million to $400 million, and we side with the higher number because of the NBCUniversal deal.
2. Matt Stone: $1.4 billion
Stone met Trey Parker in film class at the University of Colorado. A crude 1995 animated Christmas card turned into South Park two years later, and Stone voices Kyle, Kenny and Butters.
The pair own the show through their company, Park County, and that ownership is the reason both are billionaires. They sold streaming rights to HBO Max in 2019 for more than $500 million. In 2025 Paramount agreed to a $1.5 billion streaming deal plus a new production deal reported at $250 million per year through 2030. The Book of Mormon, their Broadway musical, won nine Tony Awards and ranks among the highest-grossing shows in Broadway history.
Park County’s deals with Paramount, past streaming deals and Book of Mormon royalties shape our valuation. Estimates for each partner run from $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion, and the deal arithmetic supports a figure near the middle of that range.
1. Trey Parker: $1.4 billion
Parker voices Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Randy Marsh, Mr. Garrison and a long list of others. He also writes and directs nearly every episode, often finishing one in the six days before it airs. That pace has kept the show on air for more than 25 seasons.
He and Stone split their income evenly, so their fortunes match. We put Parker first because he voices more of South Park’s main cast. In 2021 the pair bought Casa Bonita, a run-down Denver restaurant from their childhood, for about $3 million and spent tens of millions to restore it. They also built Deep Voodoo, a company that makes AI-driven visual effects.
His share of Park County, the Paramount deals, Book of Mormon income and the Casa Bonita property give us roughly $1.4 billion. Two independent reports say the Paramount streaming deal is worth $1.5 billion.
Special mentions
- Matt Groening: The Simpsons creator is worth far more than the cast, but he does not voice the characters.
- Kelsey Grammer: Sideshow Bob is a great role, but most of his roughly $80 million came from Cheers and Frasier.
- Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers: Donkey and Shrek made them a lot of money, but their fortunes come mostly from live-action films.
What the richest voice actors have in common
The gap between #3 and #4 is the whole story. Parker, Stone and MacFarlane own the shows they voice, while the Simpsons cast are employees, however well paid. Owning the show matters more than the number of voices you do.
- Every person on the list is tied to a show that has lasted, or kept coming back, for decades. Longevity is the only way a per-episode salary turns into a fortune.
- Six of the ten work on a single show, The Simpsons, which shows how few animated series pay at that scale.
- Most of them started in comedy or improv. Second City, Saturday Night Live and college film classes appear again and again in their résumés.
- Streaming rewrote the math. The biggest paydays of the last five years came from streaming rights to old episodes, not from making new ones.
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Who is the richest voice actor in the world?
Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park and the voice of Cartman and Stan, with an estimated net worth of about $1.4 billion in November 2026.
Are Trey Parker and Matt Stone billionaires?
Yes, by our estimate. Each is worth about $1.4 billion thanks to their ownership of South Park and Paramount’s $1.5 billion streaming deal from 2025.
How much do The Simpsons voice actors make per episode?
The main cast has been paid a reported $300,000 to $400,000 per episode in recent contracts, which adds up to several million dollars a season each.
Who is the richest Simpsons voice actor?
Hank Azaria and Julie Kavner are tied at about $90 million. Azaria earns more outside the show, from films, TV series and Broadway.
How much is Seth MacFarlane worth?
We estimate about $400 million, built on Family Guy, his deals with Fox and NBCUniversal, and the Ted films.
How much does the 10th richest voice actor have?
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, ranks tenth with an estimated $60 million.
How we estimate net worth
Our estimates are based on public reporting, company valuations, and deal and earnings figures all compiled in an internal valuation model. They are approximate, and figures change over time as new information emerges.
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Last updated: November 2026.
