Cheech Marin Net worth 2022, Bio, Early life, Success

Cheech Marin is an American comedian, actor, and film director who has huge fame in America. Cheech Marin Net worth $30 Million and Throughout his career, he played the role of a Comedian, Actor, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Writer, Film Producer, and Film director also.

Cheech Marin Net worth

Well, by doing so many things in his career he gets highlighted as a comedian and an actor. He got a huge level of recognition for his role played by a co-actor Tommy Chong named Cheech & Chong.

This was one of the most successful events of his career which gives a breakthrough to keep forwarding his career.

The duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong released 11 albums under which they performed stand-up comedy events.

It also has various soundtracks the year 1974 he won the most prestigious music industry award named Grammy for his tremendous performance in plenty of projects.

If we talk about the career credits which he got throughout his career then according to our search we found that he got around 140 credits in various projects of Hollywood like “The Lion King” (2004), “Cars” (2006), “Cars 2” (2011), and “Cars 3″ (2017), Born in East L.A.”

(1987), “Tin Cup” (1996), “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003), and the “Spy Kids” franchise (2001–2003), Nash Bridges, Cheech the School Bus Driver” (2007), “Captain Cheech” (2008), and “Cheech and the Spooky Ghost Bus” (2009), “Judging Amy” (2004–2005) and has lent his voice to the Disney films “Oliver & Company” and a lot more.

He is also running a successful business that sells cannabis and CBD products like body cream and many other products. His business is going on a good stage.

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Cheech Marin Early life

The real name of Cheech is Richard Anthony Marin. He was born on 13th July 1946, in Los Angeles, California. He is the child of a policeman.

His father named Oscar was a Policeman in LAPD and his mother was a secretary. His parents are Mexican-American and both of them are recognized with the title of Chicano.

He underwent surgery to repair his cleft lips and after the completion of his surgery, his uncle saw him and named him Cheech. He takes this name to get identified by Cheech.

Now, the world knows him by the name of Cheech. He had completed his elementary education at Bishop Alemany High School after completing his school he went to San Fernando Valley State College for completing his education.

Cheech and Chong

The biggest glory which Marin got is from standup comedy and that’s why he is recognized as a comedian after performing so many other works also.

He meets Tommy Chong in Vancouver and they become friends. After that, they decided to make a standup comedy duo named Cheech and Chong. After that, they released their first album named Cheech and Chong in 1971.

This album contains songs and stand-up comedy recordings.

This album got a tremendous response from the audience and they got huge popularity with it.

After that,t they introduced various other projects like 1972’s “Big Bambu,” 1973’s “Los Cochinos,” and 1974’s “Cheech & Chong’s Wedding Album.”

Cheech & Chong also made their first feature film, “Up in Smoke,” in 1978, and it grossed $44.3 million at the box office in America.

In 2018, “Forbes” [one of the most reputed magazines in America] announced the total valuation of this movie as around $151 million including inflation.

After that they worked on plenty of other projects like “Nice Dreams,“” Things Are Tough All Over,” Still Smokin’,“” Cheech & Chong’s “The Corsican Brothers,” and “Get Out of My Room.”

Cheech and Chong split up in 1985 but sporadically worked together in the 1990s and early 2000s. They completed a voice acting in the release in 1992 named “FernGully: The Last Rainforest”.

They work on plenty of other projects and in the year 2013 he introduced his unnamed movie named “Cheech and Chong Animated movie”.

Other work of Cheech

There are some subsidiary projects in which he worked throughout his career.  Like  1987’s release “Born in East L.A.,” then appeared in movies like “Ghostbusters II” (1989), “Troop Beverly Hills” (1989), and “Far Out Man” (1990).

He also played the role of  Chuy Castillos on “The Golden Girls” spin-off “The Golden Palace” from 1992 to 1993, and he guest-starred on “Tales from the Crypt” in 1993, also done “Dream On” (1994), and “Sesame Street” (1995).

He starred in the 1994 TV movie “The Cisco Kid” (1994) and appeared in 1996’s “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Tin Cup,” and “The Great White Hype.”

From 1996 to 2001, he also worked with Don Johnson on the CBS series “Nash Bridges,” appearing in 120 episodes.

He also worked in  “Spy Kids” released in 2001 and reprised his role in 2002’s “Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams” and 2003’s “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over”, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,”  “Christmas with the Kranks” (2004), “Grindhouse” (2007), “Race to Witch Mountain” (2009), and many other big projects of that time.

Cheech Marin Personal life

He married Darlene Morley on 1st November 1975. They took divorce in 1984 But had a child before divorce. His former wife is available in some movies of Cheech with the name of Rikki Marin.

She also produced some of the big projects of Cheech like “Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers.”

After some time he got married to an artist named Patti Heid on April 1, 1986, and in the year of 2009, they divorced each other. They had 2 children together. In the same year, he got married to the pianist Natasha Rubin.

In the year 2017, it was announced that Cheech has organized the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry this is to promote the art and culture of Chicago.

This center attains more than 700 pieces of art. He also faced knee replacement surgery and after surgery, he became completely fine.

Now, he is 76 years old and after having this tremendous career working on hundreds of projects he holds a total net worth of $30 million