Ben Mckenzie Net Worth

Ben Mckenzie's Quotes

• "I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be. So, in that sense, Ryan and I are the same. I played football in Texas, but I didn't really hang out with the jocks. I did honors courses, but I didn't hang out with those kids, either. I sort of had my own group I hung with occasionally, but I've always been kind of by myself." - When asked about his high school experience.
• It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.
• "It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and skeptical about a lot of it." When discussing differences between Ryan Atwood and himself.
• "I'm somewhat puzzled about that myself. I did theater in college, so I had already started down that path, but I didn't want to major in theater at U. Va. I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd get a good education and do some acting at the same time" Explaining why he majored in Economics and Foreign Affairs and not theater.
• Sometimes those fears (about fame) creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

Interesting Facts about Ben Mckenzie

1. Uncle is Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan
2. Education: Austin High, graduated 1997; University of Virginia, bachelor's degree 2001
3. His paternal grandparents both did some acting when they were young. His 22-year-old brother Nate is a Yale graduate working in avant-garde theater in New York. Younger brother Zack, 19, is attending Pomona College, a half-hour away from Los Angeles, and still pondering his future.
4. He followed his father and grandfather to the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 2001 with a degree in economics and foreign relations.
5. Son of Austin attorney Pieter Schenkkan and poet-writer Mary Frances Victory.
6. Has a manager, publicist and lawyer on the payroll (he's shopping for a new agent now that his career is taking off)
7. He recently moved into a new apartment in Santa Monica and bought a sleek new Infiniti G35, which he concedes he spends more on than housing.
8. Moved to New York City three weeks before 9/11
9. While in New York he waited tables to help support himself and shared a bunk bed in a cramped apartment in the city.
10. Mother: Frances Schenkkan will begin the master's program in creative writing at the University of Texas in the fall. She's been a newspaper reporter and editor, and in the 1980s she served on the Austin Planning Commission and the board of the Austin Child Guidance Center. She is a recipient of the Adele Steiner Burleson prize in poetry at the university. She and husband Pieter have three sons, Ben, Nate, and Zack.
11. He graduated from the same high school in Austin that the Bush twins (Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush) graduated from. He was a senior the year they were freshmen.
12. Second cousin of Sarah Drew
13. Was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention on July 27, 2004.
14. Was voted one of InStyle's "10 Hottest Bachelors Of Summer" in July 2005, placing at number 10.
15. One of his grandfathers, Robert F. ("Bob") Schenkkan, was an early proponent of both PBS and NPR. In recognition of his work, Austin, Texas' public radio and television stations KUT-FM and KLRU-TV hosted a 90th birthday celebration for him in March 2007, at which McKenzie and many of Schenkkan's other grandchildren spoke.
16. Played football with (quarterback of the New Orleans Saints) Drew Brees at Austin High School and then against Drew Brees when Drew transferred to a rival school. Is now a Saints fan.
17. Best friends with Paul Wesley.
18. Ben's paternal grandfather, Robert Frederic Schenkkan, was from a Dutch Jewish family, and had both Ashkenazi and Sephardi ancestry. Ben's patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to Ben's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Abraham Juda Schenkkan Levie, who was born, c. 1781, in Amsterdam. Ben's great-great-aunt, Martha van der Zijl, died in Auschwitz in 1943; Martha was the sister of Ben's paternal great-grandmother, Josephine van der Zijl. From Ben's three other grandparents, his ancestry is English, with a smaller amount of Scottish.
19. He is the only actor to have played both Bruce Wayne/Batman and his ally Commissioner James ''Jim'' Gordon.
20. In September 2015, girlfriend Morena Baccarin announced she was pregnant with Ben's first child and planning to marry him.