Trevor Noah Net Worth and Salary: Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, actor, television host and radio DJ who has a net worth of $40 million. After making his mark on the international stand-up comedy circuit, Noah got his big break in America when he was hired to host Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show .

Personal Life: Trevor Noah was born on February 20, 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since his father Robert was of Swiss descent and his Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah was of Xhosa descent, he made life difficult for the Noah family under South Africa’s apartheid regime at the time, which had criminalized interracial marriage until Trevor’s birth, and his mother had to in the course faced imprisonment and fines during his childhood (he wrote about his experiences growing up under apartheid in South Africa in his 2016 book Born a Crime ).

Personality: Trevor Noah’s show business career began when he was just a teenager. In 2002, aged 18, he had an extra role in an episode of the popular South African soap opera Isidingo . Around the same time, he began hosting his own youth-oriented radio show entitled Noah’s Ark , and thereafter he hosted an educational television series entitled Run The Adventure from 2004 to 2006 . Then in 2007, Noah hosted the gossip television series The Real Goboza and a year later the dating game show The Amazing Date. At this point in his career he was not only working as a TV presenter, around this time he also appeared as a contestant on the fourth season of the reality TV series Strictly Come Dancing . He hosted the South African Film and TV Awards in 2009, co-hosted the South African Music Awards in 2009 and 2010 and eventually got his own TV show called Tonight with Trevor Noah. He then began earning sponsorship deals when he became spokesman and consumer advocate for South African mobile operator Cell C in 2010. Throughout his career he has continued to make his mark on the stand-up stage, performing with comedians such as Paul Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias and Russell Peters. In 2012 his comedy career reached a new milestone when Noah became the first ever South African stand-up comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, and the following year he received the same award on The Late Show with David Letterman . In 2012 he was the subject of the documentary You Laugh But It’s True and in late 2014 he made his first appearance as a contributor on The Daily Show with Jon Stewarton. That same year, he received a nomination for the MTV Africa Music Award for Personality of the Year. It was then announced on March 30, 2015 that Daily Show contributor Trevor Noah had been chosen to replace Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show and since taking over he has won multiple awards for his work on the show and was named in 2017 nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Noah has also found work as a TV producer, developing both The Opposition with Jordan Klepper and Klepper with fellow former Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper at Comedy Central, and the executive producing another show from fellow Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr .named Jefferson County: On parole. As befits his position as a major late night talk show host, he has also begun making cameo appearances in film and television. In 2017, he appeared in the series Nashville , and in Black Panther and American Vandal the following year.

In 2018, Trevor Noah established the Trevor Noah Foundation in his hometown of Johannesburg. According to the foundation’s official website, its primary goal is to provide youth in South Africa with “the tools, skills and pathways to opportunity needed to improve their lives and effect change in their communities”.

Trevor Noah is probably the only major American talk show host who speaks a total of eight languages: English, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Afrikaans and German. He originally made the journey from South Africa to America under extremely uncomfortable circumstances: his mother was shot in the head by her ex-husband Ngisaveni Abel Shingange, who according to Noah threatened him after calling him on the phone to tell him about his act to confront. In 2011, Shingange was convicted of attempted murder for the shooting as Noah’s mother miraculously survived. He said he had hoped the incident would draw public attention to the issue of domestic violence – and law enforcement’s response (or lack thereof) to it – in South Africa: “For years my mother asked the police for help with domestic violence and nothing was ever done. This is the norm in South Africa. Files were lost and the cases never went to court.”

Personal Life: In January 2019, Trevor Noah made headlines with his purchase of a mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel Air neighborhood. Noah reportedly paid $20 million for the mansion, which is 10,044 square feet and has two floors with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms. The villa features a large master bedroom measuring 2,200 square feet and the property features an infinity edge swimming pool, private home theater and 500 gallon saltwater aquarium. For special guests stopping by to see Noah in Bel-Air, there is an “Ultra Private VIP Suite” that includes its own private entrance, among other amenities.