Jimmy Tatro is a famous American comedian, actor and a YouTube celebrity, known for making videos on his own YouTube Channel called LifeAccordingToJimmy.
His net worth is estimated on almost $2 million. He is considered to be among the youngest YouTube millionaires.
Early years
He was born on February 16, 1992 in Los Angeles. He was raised with his brother and a sister in the same city. He had a happy and normal childhood, doing all the stuff kids do.
He showed great interest for basketball so he trained it from his early years.
When he was eight years old he made some skate videos and that is the first time he took camera in his hands; he wanted to be a pro skater. His dream hasn’t come true but he became very successful on another field.
He went to Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks where he was involved in playing basketball for their team. He is a huge basketball and volleyball fan and is still playing ball whenever he can.
During high school he started making comical videos, which was not a surprise to his friends because he was always considered to be a class clown. He was extremely successful and that was the first time he realized that he is a natural talent for comedy and that he could earn money that way.
He joined his school’s TV station and after getting really good at making videos he continued it even in college.
He graduated in 2010, after which he enrolled to the University of Arizona, but he dropped out in his junior year. In his own words, he signed up in college just to please everyone, but he always knew he wasn’t into it.
While he was at Arizona University he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and many of his videos were made with his frat boys.
Jimmy signed a contract with Big Frame Studios in November 2011, and decided to leave college and to come back to Los Angeles and continue filming his videos which were very popular while he was filming them as a student and become even more famous. He started earning some serious money.
Career Development
The same year, in 2010, he created his own YouTube channel LifeAccordingToJimmy. He writes and produces his own videos in collaboration with his good friend Christian A. Pierce. They were in the same fraternity in college and they soon realized they had similar aspirations.
He is also doing stand-up all across the nation and it is always crowded at his performances, especially on college campuses. He earns money from selling tickets for his performances too.
A lot of his videos, (and there is over 260 of them), are about issues he considers to be everyday problems of students at college. Naturally, he is making fun of them and their everyday life, in videos named like How To Start a Bro fight.
Many of his videos are made as a part of the series. Here are some of them: Awkward Social Interactions, West Coast Report and Make A Video About It.
His most viewed video since he opened his YouTube channel is named Breaking Up with Overly Attached Girlfriend.
He also had lot of celebrities as guests in his videos: Angela Kinsey, Darin Brooks, Riff Raff and that increased his popularity.
In 2014 his YouTube channel was listed at rank #92 in New Media Rockstars Top 100 YouTube channels of all time and that was a confirmation of his popularity.
As for his acting, he had a minor role in Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups 2 in 2013. He was very terrified of Adam Sandler, the director of the movie, but after he spent time with Adam they became friends and Jimmy showed his acting skills.
He also starred in 22 Jump Street and Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland.
22 Jump Street is a film made by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Jimmy is taking a role of a guy named Rooster, with a red fauxhawk on his head. He is costarring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
He starred in a comedy FML with Jason Nash and Brandon Calvillo in 2016, and he featured in a movie “Airplane mode” which was in cinema this year.
At the end of 2016 he acted in amovie called “Boo! A Madea Halloween” directed by Tyler Perry. This movie is also a comedy just like his another movie “Camp Manna” where he acted alongside Gary Busey,the same year.
He is doing standup comedy on Comedy Central too and that gained him a wider audience, and he became known among older public.
Personal life
Jimmy started dating actress Emily Osment in 2013. She is a former Disney star, known for her role in Spy kids and in Hannah Montana, and for her singing career. In 2015 they broke up and after that there were no new gossips about his love life.
Lauren Elizabeth, A YouTube personality like Jimmy (in beauty and fashion category) is considered to be his new girlfriend but they haven’t confirmed it.
Jimmy likes his privacy and nobody knew he dated Emily Osment for months, and they dated for two years.
Biography
Full name: James Richard Tatro
Nick name: Jimmy, The Jimster
Date of birth: February 16,1992
Birth-sign: Aquarius
Birth place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Age: 25
Occupation: actor, comedian and a YouTube personality
Education: Notre Dame High School, University of Arizona
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Personal Life and Family
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Christianity
Father name: unknown
Mother name: unknown
Brother name: John
Sister name: Laura
Marital status: Single
Girlfriend: Emily Osment, Lauren Elizabeth
Sexual Orientation: Straight
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Hobbies: playing basketball and volleyball
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Personal Look and Measurements
Height: 1, 78 m
Weight: 72 kg
Body: Slim
Hair Color: dark brown
Eye color: green
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Net Worth and Salary
His net worth is estimated around $1, 8 million and by the way it looks he is going to go over $2 million this year.
Social networks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimprov/
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/JimmyTatroFanPage
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/jimmytatro
Snapchat: @JimNJuice
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejimmytatrochannel
https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeAccordingToJimmy
Interesting Facts about Jimmy Tatro
He is listed among the top 100 richest You Tube personalities.
His favorite alcoholic drink is Johnny Walker blue with one big ice cube.
His YouTube channel LifeAccordingToJimmy counts over 2,7 million subscribers.
He partnered up with Serengetee, a fashion clothing company that donates 13% of it’s profit for every sold T-shirt, to one of the fifty foundations and charitable causes all across the world.
Jimmy Tatro was a classmate to Westberg, the co-founder of Serengetee so he advertised them in “Make A Video About It 5”. He also advertises their shirts for free, by wearing them in his videos. That is his way to be involved in charity activities.
Quick Summary
Jimmy Tatro is a famous YouTube personality known mostly for his great sketches about college life.
He was born on February 16, 1992 in Los Angeles in California and after leaving college he dedicated himself to being a comedian.
He starred in a few comedy movies and most of his wealth comes from subscribers and advertisements of his YouTube channel. His dream role in a movie is a sketchy drug dealer because he is tired of acting students in a fraternity.