Michael Barrett is an American cinematographer, who is best known for his amazing cinematography work on the movies Bobby, Ted, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Michael is recently in the news for getting married to his long-time girlfriend/fiance, Anna Farris. As of 2021, Michael Barrett net worth is estimated to be roughly $10 million.

Early life

Michael Barrett was born on the 28th of May, 1970 in Riverside, California, United States of America. He has not shared much about his early life and his parents. For his study, he joined the University of California-Los Angeles from where he received a Bachelor’s degree in art in 1992. Later, he attended Columbia University based in New York City. He came out holding a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from the University in 1996.

Michael Barrett Net Worth & Career

Michael got to meet the Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa in 1992. On his very first meeting with Gabriel, he talked about his amazing work in the 1947 movie La Perla. After completing his Master’s from Columbia University, he worked in few short movies such as “Ticket to Ride”, “Face”, and “Cookin’”. In 1998, he worked as a cinematographer in the gay-themed movie titled “Finding North”. The movie earned a nomination at the International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in the category of Best Film.

After his work was appreciated in the movie Finding North, Michael started getting other movie works. His other appreciable movie works as a cinematographer include “Safe Men”, “The Suburbans”, and “The Atlantis Conspiracy”. In 2001, he began working for the forensics crime drama series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”. The series helped him to build another step toward his successful career. He was a part of the series for three years until the series ended on September 27, 2015.

Michael kept on working with full dedication in other movies and TV series. In 2012, he became a part of the commercially successful movie “Ted”, where his cinematography work was appreciated by all audiences. The sequel of the movie “Ted 2” was released in 2015, where he was successful to received positive feedback again.

Besides his cinematography work, he has also directed the 2017 movie titled “Temple”. Likewise, he has co-produced the 2018 Canadian psychological thriller movie titled “Night Hunter”.

Michael Barrett Personal Life

Michael Barrett has been married twice. First, he tied the knot with Natasha Sabrina Sizlo. From his first marriage, he has two children. Then he started dating actress, Anna Faris in 2017 while working on the movie “Overboard”. They were spotted together as a new couple for the first time in September 2017.

Michael and Faris became engaged in 2019. Their engagement ceremony took place in a secret event, which was confirmed by Faris’ former Mom costar, Allison Janney. Anna Faris recently revealed the engagement news on an episode of Anna Faris is Unqualified podcast.

While having a conversation with a caller she said “I’m looking around.. my fiance’s right-he’s now my husband, Yes, we eloped. It was awesome, yeah, it was great.”. She further added and said, “It was at a local courthouse up in Washington State, it was great.”

Michael Barrett Net Worth

As of 2021, Michael Barrett’s net worth is estimated to be around $10 million.  He has been able to gather a vast chunk of money by working as a cinematographer in various movies and TV series. On the other hand, his wife, Anna Faris holds a huge net worth of $30 million.