Bill Nye

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Bill Nye Wiki Biography

William Sanford Nye was born on 27 November 1955, in Washington, D.C., USA, and as Bill Nye is a noted  comedian, actor, engineer, scientist, as well as a television host. To the public, Bill is perhaps still best known for his educational television program called “Bill Nye the Science Guy”, which aired on television screens from 1993 until 1998.

A well-known scientist and a television host, just how rich is Bill Nye as of early 2018? According to sources, Bill’s net worth is estimated to be over $6.5 million, most of which he has accumulated from his appearances on television screens, during a working career which began in the late 1970s.

Bill’s mother, Jacqueline, was a World War 2 code-breaker for the US Navy, and his father, Edwin a noted sundial specialist, having suffered in a Japanese POW camp without electricity. Bill was educated at Sidwell Friends School, and upon matriculation in 1973, enrolled into Cornell University, from where he graduated with a degree in science and mechanical engineering. Bill initially found a job at the multi-national corporation, The Boeing Company, being credited with inventing a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on the Boeing 747 – which was the basis of his net worth – and even tried to become an astronaut, but met with multiple rejections from NASA.

Meantime, Bill started doing stand-up comedy on the side, and then turned to television, debuting in 1987 on the comedy sketch show entitled “Almost Live!” on KING-TV in Seattle. He then starred in “Back to the Future: The Animated Series”, and eventually in 1993 launched “Bill Nye the Science Guy”. Co-created by Nye, James McKenna and Erren Gottlieb, the show mainly focused on the pre-teen audiences, as it aimed to teach and explore a variety of scientific topics. Even though the show finished its run many years ago, “Bill Nye the Science Guy” is still popular in high schools, and on various PBS stations. As the popularity of the latter show grew, so did Nye’s appearances on other television projects. In 1998, he landed a role in Robert King’s “Principal Takes a Holiday”, then starred in “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”, and appeared in “The Dr. Oz Show”.

Additionally, Bill Nye created a science program called “The Eyes of Nye”, which was aimed towards adults rather than children. Since then, Nye has been a guest star on such television shows as “Numbers” with Rob Morrow and Judd Hirsch, “Larry King Live”, “Stargate Atlantis” starring Neil deGrasse Tyson, and “America’s Most Smartest Model”. For his contribution to popularising science, Bill Nye was rewarded with a doctor of science degree from Rensselar Polytechnic Institute, Willamete University, and Johns Hopkins University. In 2010, he was further rewarded with Humanist of the Year Award.

More recently, in 2013 Bill Nye became a member of “Dancing with the Stars” television show, where he was partnered with Tyne Stecklein, but was injured and forced to withdraw. In 2014, he was invited to be an interviewer, as well as a guest on an event held in the White House, called “White House Student Film Festival”. All these projects have added steadily to Bill’s net worth.

In regards to his personal life, in 2006 Bill Nye started a relationship with the journalist and performer Blair Tindall, and they married later that same year. However, their marriage lasted for several weeks only, as Nye decided to leave when it turned out that the marriage license was invalid, and the consequences of the separation has continued acrimoniously for several years, apparently not completely settled to this day.

Bill now divides his time between residences in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Bill Nye Quick Info

Full Name Bill Nye
Net Worth $6.5 Million
Date Of Birth November 27, 1955
Place Of Birth Washington, D.C., United States
Height 6 ft (1.85 m)
Profession Scientist, Engineer, Comedian, Presenter, Screenwriter, Actor, Educator
Education Cornell University, Sidwell Friends School
Nationality American
Spouse Blair Tindall (m. 2006–2006)
Children Charity Nye
Parents Edwin D. “Ned” Nye, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye
Siblings Edward Darby Nye Jr., Susan Nye
Nicknames William Sanford Nye , Bill Nye the Science Guy , The Science Guy , William Sanford “Bill” Nye
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/billnye
Twitter https://twitter.com/billnye
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billnye/?hl=en
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638557
Awards Humanist of the Year Award (2010, American Humanist Association), In Praise of Reason Award (2011, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP), Candle in the Dark Award (1997 by CSICOP)
Nominations Honorary doctorate (Johns Hopkins University – 2008, Willamette University – 2011, Simon Fraser University – 2015)
Movies A Brief History of Time Travel (2017, documentary), Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackles DeflateGate (2015), 100 Greatest Discoveries (2004, documentary), Astronauts (1997), American Experience (1991-1996, documentary), Degenerate Art (1993)
TV Shows Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1998), Bill Nye Saves the World (2017–present), Quick Reviews with Maverick (2016), The Big Bang Theory, Inside Amy Schumer, Dancing with the Stars (2013), Miles from Tomorrowland (2015-2016), The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989)

Bill Nye Trademarks

  1. Always appears with bow-tie and lab coat

Bill Nye Quotes

  • [on how he makes the average person understand science] You have to have learning objectives – things you want to get across. You want to make a point: Humans and dinosaurs did not live concurrently. If you get the adjacent carbon dating of volcanic soil, hat’s cool. But what I want you to get is that ancient dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time. The rest is gravy.
  • Science rules!
  • Our country is the only country in the world that has some people that don’t believe in evolution. America is still the leader in scientific advancement, and yet we have adults who want to ignore the evidence of millions and millions of years to believe something much more complicated and complex with zero proof. It’s important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. If you’re an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don’t prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions. I think in 30-40 years this won’t even be an issue, but right now it’s a major concern for a country that has a significant amount of adults raising children to ignore the facts and the evidence surrounding them about our universe, our creation and our well-being.
  • [advice to young scientists] Try things then clean up after yourself. Then try some more things and clean that up too.

Bill Nye Important Facts

  • His maternal grandmother, Lucy Marie Berta Briot, was French. His other ancestry includes English, Welsh, and Irish.
  • One of his “Almost Live” co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of “Nebraska”.
  • One of his characters on the Seattle-based sketch show, “Almost Live”, was a humorless caped superhero, Speed Walker.
  • Lives in Los Angeles. Neighbors include Ed Begley Jr. and Alex Trebek.
  • Quit working at Boeing in the early 80s to become a stand-up comedian.
  • Good friends with Kevin Brauch.
  • Announced he was engaged to be married to Blair Tindall on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) in December 2005. The “marriage” lasted less than a month before it was either annulled or deemed invalid (sources disagree on the detail). In November 2007, Nye filed for a restraining order against “ex-fiance” Tindall, saying that he wondered if she might have poured solvent on his garden. The restraining order was later dismissed.
  • Enjoys 30s/40s style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
  • Premiered his Science Guy character on the Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! (1984).
  • An honored as Rhodes Class of ’56 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied under Carl Sagan.
  • His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
  • He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
  • Self proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie everyday, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
  • His father, Edwin D. “Ned” Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, “Sundials of Maryland and Virginia.” Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye’s “Sandial®,” a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
  • Started his career after he won a Steve Martin lookalike contest.
  • Worked as an engineer at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films, some of which are still popular among the workers there.
  • Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Bill Nye Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Miles from Tomorrowland 2015-2016 TV Series Professor Rubicon
Professor Randii Rubicon
Actor
Inside Amy Schumer 2015 TV Series Bill Nye Actor
Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackles DeflateGate 2015 Short Science Guy Actor
The (206) 2013-2014 TV Series Actor
The Neighbors 2014 TV Series Bill Nye Actor
Tosh.0 2014 TV Series Actor
The Drunken Peasants 2014 TV Series Actor
The Big Bang Theory 2013 TV Series Bill Nye Actor
Stargate: Atlantis 2008 TV Series Bill Nye Actor
Numb3rs 2005-2008 TV Series Bill Waldie Actor
Rocketboy 2006 Short Payload Specialist Actor
The Eyes of Nye 2005 TV Series Host Actor
100 Greatest Discoveries 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary Narrator / Host Actor
BattleBots 2000 TV Series Technical Expert Actor
Get Real 2000 TV Series Mr. Stone Actor
The Wonderful World of Disney 1998 TV Series Science Teacher Actor
Astronauts 1997 TV Movie Narrator Actor
Back to the Future 1991-1992 TV Series The Science Guy Actor
The All New Mickey Mouse Club 1989 TV Series Actor
Almost Live! 1984 TV Series Various Actor
Stuff Happens Hosted by Bill Nye TV Series 4 episodes, 2008 written by – 5 episodes, 2008 Writer
The Eyes of Nye 2005 TV Series head writer Writer
Absent Minded Inventions and the Search for Flubber with Bill Nye the Science Guy 1997 TV Movie documentary Writer
Bill Nye, the Science Guy TV Series documentary written by – 21 episodes, 1993 – 1994 creator – 1 episode, 1995 head writer – 1 episode, 1995 Writer
Flubber 1997 science consultant Miscellaneous
American Experience 1991-1996 TV Series documentary production assistant – 6 episodes Miscellaneous
Degenerate Art 1993 TV Movie documentary production assistant Miscellaneous
Bill Nye, the Science Guy 1995 TV Series documentary producer – 3 episodes Producer
Whose Line Is It Anyway? 2015 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
For the Love of Spock 2016 Documentary special thanks Thanks
The Confirmation 2016 special thanks Thanks
Bill Nye Saves the World 2017 TV Series announced Himself – Host Self
The Bill Nye Film 2017 Documentary pre-production Himself Self
StarTalk 2015-2016 TV Series Himself Self
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – World Premiere 2016 TV Movie Himself – The Scientism Guy Self
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf 2016 TV Series Himself Self
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault 2016 Documentary Himself Self
Food Evolution 2016 Documentary Himself Self
CBS News Sunday Morning 2016 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Journey to Mars 101: Living on Mars and Beyond 2016 Video documentary Himself – Host Self
Chelsea 2016 TV Series Himself Self
Fight for Space 2016 Documentary Himself – CEO Planetary Society Self
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore 2015-2016 TV Series Himself – Panelist / Himself Self
Independent Lens 2016 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Explorer 2015 TV Series documentary Self
Global Citizen Festival 2015 TV Movie Himself Self
Whose Line Is It Anyway? 2015 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
7th Annual Shorty Awards 2015 Video Himself – Presenter, Winner: Best in Science Self
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs 2015 TV Special Himself Self
Real Time with Bill Maher 2013-2015 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself Self
Inside Edition 2014 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Up with Steve Kornacki 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
CBS This Morning 2012-2014 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2014 TV Series Himself Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014 TV Series Himself Self
An Honest Liar 2014 Documentary Himself – The Science Guy Self
The Independents 2014 TV Series Himself Self
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers 2014 TV Series Himself Self
Katie 2014 TV Series Himself Self
ABC News Nightline 2014 TV Series Himself – CEO, Planetary Society Self
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir 2014 TV Series Himself – ‘The Science Guy’ Self
Piers Morgan Tonight 2013-2014 TV Series Himself – Science Educator / Himself Self
Uncensored Science: Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham 2014 TV Movie Himself – Against creationism Self
King of the Nerds 2014 TV Series Himself – Judge Self
Stossel 2012-2014 TV Series Himself Self
Politics Nation with Al Sharpton 2014 TV Series Himself Self
The View 2013 TV Series Himself Self
Dancing with the Stars 2013 TV Series Himself – Contestant Self
Hub Network’s First Annual Halloween Bash 2013 TV Movie Himself Self
Why with Nye 2013 Video short Himself Self
The Arsenio Hall Show 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Good Morning America 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
The Nerdist 2013 TV Series Himself Self
Larry King Now 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
EcoDivas TV 2012-2013 TV Series Himself Self
On Begley Street 2013 TV Series Himself Self
Solution Earth a New Beginning 2012 Video documentary Self
The War Room with Michael Shure 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Sandy: The Anatomy of a Superstorm 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy: Renewable Energy 2012 Video short Himself – Host Self
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy 2011 Video short Himself Self
Living with Ed 2007-2009 TV Series Himself Self
Solving for X 2009 TV Series Himself Self
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 2008-2009 TV Series Himself – Guest Expert Self
Nova 2009 TV Series documentary Himself – Science Educator Self
The Bonnie Hunt Show 2008 TV Series Himself Self
Gravity’s Effect on Humans with Bill Nye the Science Guy 2008 Video short Himself Self
Stuff Happens Hosted by Bill Nye 2008 TV Series Himself – Host Self
Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye 2007 TV Mini-Series Himself Self
America’s Most Smartest Model 2007 TV Series Himself Self
This Week 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Last Stop Kew Gardens 2006 Video documentary Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Larry King Live 2005 TV Series Himself Self
TV Land’s Top Ten 2005 TV Series documentary Himself Self
First Look 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself – Host (as Bill Nye the Science Guy) Self
VH1 Big in 03 2003 TV Special Himself Self
Countdown to Mars 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself – Host (as Bill Nye the Science Guy) Self
Bill Nye and Debbie Allen Imagine Mars 2002 TV Movie Himself Self
Win Ben Stein’s Money 2001 TV Series Himself Self
Turn Ben Stein On 2000 TV Series Himself Self
Hollywood Squares 1999 TV Series Himself Self
The Rosie O’Donnell Show 1999 TV Series Himself Self
The 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards 1999 TV Special Himself – Winner: Outstanding Children’s Series Self
Bill Nye, the Science Guy 1993-1998 TV Series documentary Himself – Host / Himself Self
The 25th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards 1998 TV Special Himself – Winner: Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series Self
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1998 TV Series Himself Self
Absent Minded Inventions and the Search for Flubber with Bill Nye the Science Guy 1997 TV Movie documentary Himself – Host Self
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 1997 TV Series Himself Self
Ellen’s Energy Adventure 1996 Video Himself Self
Space Ghost Coast to Coast 1996 TV Series Himself Self
Crook & Chase 1996 TV Series Himself Self
Walt Disney World Inside Out 1994 TV Series documentary Himself – Segment Self
Before the Flood 2016 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Drunken Peasants 2014-2015 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
The Comfort Zone 2013-2014 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Mike & Mike 2013 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
In Focus 2012 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Pastor Mike Online 2012 TV Series Himself Archive Footage

Bill Nye Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
1999 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
1998 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
1998 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
1996 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Won
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
2000 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
1999 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
1998 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
1998 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
1997 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated
1996 Daytime Emmy Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993) Nominated