David Hasselhoff net worth in 2023 Career & Relationship

Estimated value:	€10 million
Age:	69
Born:	07/17/1952
Country of origin:	United States of America
Source of Wealth:	singers and actors
Last updated:	2021

Short introduction

David Hasselhoff was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, on July 17, 1952. He is an American actor and singer of German ancestry. He is best known for his two starring roles in the television series Knight Rider and Baywatch. He was also known for various musical publications.

early life

After birth and childhood, David Hasselhoff quickly discovered his acting talents, which he was able to demonstrate from 1975 to 1982 in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. There he embodied the role of the young seducer Dr. Snapper Foster. In Germany, this series was broadcast by the Sat.1 broadcaster under the synonym Schatten der Passion. In addition, various photos showing him in a leather jacket and black swimming trunks established his reputation as a male sex symbol. Then in 1979 he was Prince Simon in the Italian Star Wars clone entitled Star Crash.

Career

David Hasselhoff made his worldwide breakthrough as Michael Knight in the Knight Rider series, which ran from 1982-1986 and reached millions of viewers. The series also managed to achieve cult status. being the most-watched television series in the United States in the 1980s. With the series Baywatch, which started in 1989 and comprised a total of 241 episodes, David Hasselhoff also reached an audience of millions. This is also surprising because the US television series flopped in the United States after the first season. Baywatch later became the highest grossing television series in the world, with the series being seen in 144 countries. David Hasselhoff plays the role of lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and is the lead actor of the series, which ended in 2001. In 2004, David Hasselhoff also starred in the musical Chicago, a London West End production. He played Billy Flynn there. David Hasselhoff later described the leading role in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, which he embodied in 2000, as the realization of a great dream. In 2004, he made a brief cameo appearance as coach of the German national team in the film Voll auf die Nusse. In addition, David Hasselhoff appeared in the real-time game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. In the end, David Hasselhoff is even appointed President of the USA. The star made her first appearance on a talent show in 2009 when he served as a judge on the talent show America’s Got Talent. Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne sat next to him at the time. In 2013 he was a guest on the Sat.1 television show Celebrity Big Brother, but had to leave because his father was ill.

Career highlights

Again and again David Hasselhoff undertook excursions into the two art forms of singing and dancing, for which he was very interested. In 1985 and 1987 he released two rather less successful albums with the two ballads Night Rocker and Lovin’ Feelings in the USA. These two albums, Night Rocker and Lovin’ Feelings, were released in Switzerland in 1989 and subsequently established David Hasselhoff’s success in the Alpine Republic. In 1988, David Hasselhoff appeared in a TV show in which his famous car from the TV series Knight Rider drove onto the stage, where he also sang a duet with actor Harald Juhnke. David Hasselhoff has his mother-in-law to thank for a collaboration with the German producer Jack White. The story goes that she made Jack White aware of David Hasselhoff and suggested working with David Hasselhoff. In 1989, David Hasselhoff recorded the song Looking for Freedom with Jack White, which was written after appearing on the TV show Wetten, dass..? was sold up to 70,000 times a day in Germany and thus took first place in the hit parade for eight weeks. Jack White and David Hasselhoff then recorded the album of the same name in a studio in Kitzbühel, which became the best-selling album in Germany in the same year. Finally, David Hasselhoff also achieved his breakthrough as a singer in Germany, after he was initially only granted this success in Austria. One of his highlights was on New Year’s Eve 1989 when he sang Looking for Freedom in front of the Berlin Wall for more than 500,000 people. In the 1990s he produced several songs for Jeremy Jackson.

Famous quotes

• “It’s great that part of the wall is still standing. What do people want to see when they are in Berlin for the first time? They want to see the Wall, they want to drive a Trabi and they want to go to the Brandenburg Gate. It’s important to have a memory of the people killed here.”

Amazing Facts

The paternal great-great-grandmother came from Völkersen near Bremen. In 1996, Hasselhoff received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

David Hasselhoff has received numerous other prestigious awards.

Estimated value:	€10 million