Jason Bateman has a net worth of $60 million, accumulated over four decades as one of Hollywood’s most consistently employed actor-director-producers. Born in 1969, Bateman launched his career as a child actor, survived a near-decade of career dormancy in the 1990s, and engineered one of the most celebrated comebacks in television history through Arrested Development and the Netflix drama Ozark.
Updated March 2026: According to IMDb industry reporting and Britannica, Bateman remains one of Netflix’s most bankable stars, earning an estimated $300,000 per episode for his 2025 limited series Black Rabbit alongside Jude Law, continuing a multi-year overall deal he signed with Netflix through his production company Aggregate Films.
Jason Kent Bateman was born on January 14, 1969, in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, is an actor, writer, and director, and his mother, Victoria, is a British-born flight attendant. His older sister is actress Justine Bateman, best known for her role on Family Ties (1982–1989). The family relocated to California to support the children’s acting careers.
Bateman’s entrée into acting came at age 10, when he accompanied a friend to an audition for an educational film and was asked to read for the lead role himself. He landed his first national television credit on Little House on the Prairie in 1981, playing James Cooper during the 1981–1982 season. By his early teens, the family’s finances were substantially supported by his earnings. Bateman attended Brighton Hall School in Los Angeles but did not complete his finals, having departed mid-enrollment to film Teen Wolf Too (1987).
Bateman’s television career accelerated rapidly through the 1980s. He appeared as a recurring cast member in Silver Spoons (1982–1984) and in the sitcom It’s Your Move (1984–1985). His most sustained early role was David Hogan in The Hogan Family (1986–1991), originally titled Valerie. During this run, he also directed several episodes at age 18, becoming the youngest person at the time to hold a Directors Guild of America card.
His film debut came with Teen Wolf Too (1987). However, the transition from child and teen actor to adult roles proved difficult. Through the 1990s, Bateman starred in a string of short-lived television series including Chicago Sons (1997), George & Leo (1997–1998), and Some of My Best Friends (2001), none of which continued beyond a single season. He has spoken openly about struggling with alcohol and drug dependency during this period.
The turning point came in 2003, when creator Mitch Hurwitz cast him as Michael Bluth in Fox’s Arrested Development. The show ran for three seasons (2003–2006), earned a Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and won Bateman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2005. The series was revived on Netflix in 2013 and again in 2018–2019.
Bateman’s film work accelerated in parallel: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Horrible Bosses (2011), and his directorial feature debut Bad Words (2013). He voiced the character Nick Wilde in Disney’s Zootopia (2016), a film that grossed over $1 billion worldwide; the sequel Zootopia 2 (2025) opened to a record-breaking $556 million globally in its opening five-day period, according to AP News.
In 2017, Bateman debuted as Marty Byrde in Netflix’s crime drama Ozark, which he also executive produced and directed. The series ran four seasons through 2022. Bateman won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for the episode “Reparations,” and received three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, according to Wikipedia’s awards listing. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017.
In 2025, Bateman starred in and directed Netflix’s limited series Black Rabbit alongside Jude Law, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025. He is also set to appear in DTF St. Louis in 2026.
Bateman’s wealth derives from a layered set of income streams spanning acting fees, producing back-end, directing fees, podcast licensing, and production company deals:
Jason Bateman has been married to actress and producer Amanda Anka since July 3, 2001. The couple first met as teenagers at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game in 1988 and remained friends for a decade before beginning to date in 1998. Amanda Anka is the daughter of singer-songwriter Paul Anka. Her acting credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and Lost Highway (1997), and she served as co-producer on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show from 2019 to 2021. They married in Malibu, California, and are regarded as one of Hollywood’s most enduring couples, according to E! News.
The couple has two daughters. Francesca Nora Bateman was born on October 28, 2006, and at age 2 appeared in a Gap holiday advertisement alongside her father. Maple Sylvie Bateman was born on February 10, 2012. Both daughters accompanied Bateman and Anka to the world premiere of Black Rabbit at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, their first major public family appearance since Bateman’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in 2017, per E! Online.
The family resides in Beverly Hills, California, where Bateman owns a 6,148-square-foot property at 3055 Lake Glen Drive, a gated estate formerly owned by actor Ernest Borgnine, which Bateman purchased in 2013 for $3 million. He also acquired an adjacent property in 2018 for $1.85 million, creating a mini-compound with indoor and outdoor pools, per Virtual Globetrotting.
Jason Bateman’s net worth is estimated at $60 million. His wealth comes from a long career as an actor, director, and producer, highlighted by starring and directing roles on Netflix’s Ozark (2017–2022), a multi-year overall production deal with Netflix through Aggregate Films, and the SmartLess podcast’s $100 million SiriusXM deal (2024).
Jason Bateman’s wife is Amanda Anka, daughter of legendary singer Paul Anka. The couple met as teenagers at a Los Angeles Kings game in 1988, began dating in 1998, and married on July 3, 2001, in Malibu, California. Amanda Anka is also an actress and producer, with credits including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and a co-producer role on The Morning Show (2019–2021), per People.
Jason Bateman is 57 years old, born on January 14, 1969, in Rye, New York. He began acting at age 10 and appeared on Little House on the Prairie at age 12, making him one of the most experienced actors in Hollywood with over four decades of professional credits.
Jason Bateman is 5 feet 11 inches tall (1.80 meters), per his listing on IMDb.
Jason Bateman earned approximately $300,000 per episode during the early seasons of Ozark, rising to an estimated $400,000–$500,000 per episode in later seasons, factoring in his roles as actor, director, and executive producer. With 44 total episodes across four seasons (2017–2022), his acting compensation from Ozark alone exceeded $15 million. His directing fees for nine episodes and producing back-end added further income on top of his on-screen salary, per International Business Times.
Jason Bateman lives in Beverly Hills, California. He owns a gated 6,148-square-foot estate at 3055 Lake Glen Drive, formerly owned by actor Ernest Borgnine, which he purchased in 2013 for $3 million. He bought the adjacent property in 2018 for $1.85 million, creating a combined mini-compound with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and both indoor and outdoor pools, per Echo Fine Properties.
Jason Bateman has two daughters with his wife Amanda Anka. Francesca Nora Bateman was born on October 28, 2006, and Maple Sylvie Bateman was born on February 10, 2012. At the 2023 SAG Awards, where Bateman won Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series for Ozark, he told the audience: “I get to say thank you to my wife Amanda, my two kids at home, Maple and Francesca — they made me feel like I was a good dad even though I was gone for six months every year,” per People.