Simon Kinberg Net Worth, Career, Biography, Facts, Age, Life Story

Simon Kinberg is an American screenwriter and film producer who has a net worth of $200 million. Kinberg is probably best-known for producing the “Deadpool” and “X-Men” film franchises.

Simon Kinberg was born in London, England in August 1973. He graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts with his MFA and won the Zaki Gordon Fellowship for Screenwriting. Kinberg wrote for the movies XXX: State of the Union, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Fantastic Four in 2005. He wrote for the movie X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 and wrote and produced the film Jumper in 2008. Kinberg wrote the movie Sherlock Holmes in 2009 and produced the film X-Men: First Class in 2011. In 2012 he wrote and produced the movies This Means War and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he also served as executive producer on. In 2013 he produced the film Elysium and in 2014 he produced the movie Let’s Be Cops.

Kinberg wrote and produced the movies X-Men: Days of Future Past and the TV series Star Wars Rebels which he also executive produced in 2014. In 2015 he produced the movies Cinderella, Chappie and The Martian, and wrote and produced the film Fantastic Four. Kinberg also served as a consultant on the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In 2016 he produced the movie Deadpool and wrote and produced the film X-Men: Apocalypse. Kinberg won an AFI Award and a Hollywood Film Award for The Martian and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2016 for the same film.

Deadpool earnings: Kinberg was given 5% gross participation points for producing Deadpool. To date this resulted in an $80 million payday.

Real Estate: In early 2018, Simon sold a Sunset Strip home to actor Sam Worthington for $7.9 million. Later that same year, Simon purchased a different house above the Sunset Strip in the Hollywood Hills for $31.5 million. He sold this home in 2021 for $28.5 million, a $3 million loss. That same year he paid $15.5 million for a home in LA’s Brentwood neighborhood.