Adam Whitney Savage was born on 15th July 1967. He is an American special effects designer and fabricator. He is also an actor, educator, and television personality, who has produced several shows. He hosted a popular show on the Discovery Channel named Mythbusters and unchained reactions, along with his co-host Jamie Hyneman. He has even been a part of several movies like Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded.
In June 2019 he started a show named Savage builds, which aired on the Science channel. Presently Adam Savage has his website and a YouTube channel known as ‘Adam savage’s tested’ on which he spends most hours of his day, working and interacting with people.
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Adam Savage Early Life:
Born in New York City, Adam Savage was raised by his parents in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He belonged to a wealthy family, where Cushman Haagensen, his maternal grandfather, was a surgeon by profession, and his father Whitney Lee Savage was a filmmaker, painter, and animator. His grandfather had worked on breast cancer surgeries, while one of the most popular ventures of his father was Sesame Street.
He even owns an exhibit in Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1968, his father directed an underground short film on Mickey Mouse in Vietnam. Whitney Lee Savage died in 1998. Adam Savage’s mother, Karen Savage was a psychotherapist. His parents had 5 other kids from their other partners. 2 older brothers, 2 older sisters, and a younger sister were also a part of his childhood.
Adam Savage was interested in acting from a very young age and growing up, he even went to an acting school for five years. He participated in voicing animated characters in movies that were made by his father Mr vipuls stock boy Jimmy was one of the most popular characters on this list. In the 1985 music video “You’re Only Human”, he voiced the character of a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard.
Adam Savage was nearly 19 years old when he left acting. Talking about his decision, he said that he had some new stuff to explore and therefore gave up acting. Talking about his show “Mythbusters”, he had said that the show was a perfect combination of performance and special effects.
In 2011, Adam Savage was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente, in Enschede, Netherlands. The doctorate was awarded to him for his contribution to popularizing Science and Technology.
Savage spent a major part of his teenage years in Sleepy Hollow, where he visited a bike shop quite often that fixed flat tires. The shop owner was kind enough to teach him how to fix these Tyres and several other repairing techniques. Talking about what he learned from his teenage experiences, he said that he realized that dismantling a bike and putting it back together wasn’t as hard as he imagined. Ever since then, he had been doing so, with his bikes and bicycles.
On his 18th birthday, Savage went swimming and faced an accident, in which he broke his neck. However, he recovered soon from the injury and did not have any long-term consequences on his body. Adam Savage does suffer from congenital Otosclerosis and therefore has to wear hearing aids in both his ears, most of the time.
In 2004, Adam Savage got hitched to Julia Wards. Before their marriage, Adam was into another relationship, from which he had twin sons.
Savage spent a few years of his life in Brooklyn. He lived at Eighth Avenue and Carroll Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn during the 1980s. He had to work on a graphic design firm in Manhattan and therefore decided to live with his parents for some time. During the same time, one of his friends who lived in San Francisco asked him to move in with him as a roommate and therefore, Savage started living with on Broderick Street in San Francisco.
In 2020, Adam Savage released a YouTube video, in which he shared that he was an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. It was a group of people, who believed “Do that which is right”. He said that as a minister, he married 22-25 couples. Later, he also revealed that he was an atheist.
Costume making and cosplay are some of the passions that Adam Savage endures. Talking about the same, he once shared that his mother used to get him costumes of Jaws, when Jaws came out, and he would wear a Batman costume all the time. He shared that when he was a kid, everybody dressed up as hobos. Talking about the kind of costumes he likes, he said that authenticity was one of the major ingredients he liked, not just in his costumes, but most of the things he does.
He was in High school when his father made him a suit of armor. The armor was made out of aluminum roof flashing and had 700 rivets. He said that he wore it to school and due to heat exhaustion in the maths class, he passed out and was taken to the nurse’s office. In the office, the first thing he asked after waking up was about his armor.
In June 2020, Adam Savage’s younger sister Miranda Pacchiana accused him of raping her throughout her childhood. The case went to the courts but the drawback to the case was that the evidence had expired because a lot of time had passed since the incident happened.
Talking about the same accusations, Adam said that he wished for his sister to find peace and stop accusing him and his family members of what they never did. Adam’s mother also came to his defense and talked about how her younger daughter suffered from severe mental illness. She said that she was very concerned about her daughter’s mental health and what effects it had been taking on Adam and the rest of the members of her family.
Adam Savage Career:
Adam Savage has been an animator, graphic designer, carpenter, projectionist, television presenter, film developer, toy designer, gallery owner, and set designer by profession. He has been a part of several films like Galaxy Quest, Bicentennial Man, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Mummy, The Matrix Reloaded, and Space Cowboys. In these movies, he worked as a model maker. In 2001 he did a movie named “Ever since the world ended”, in which he played the character of an engineer. In 2006, he did another movie called “The Darwin Awards”, and played the role of a man who is the owner of an army surplus store and sells a rocket engine to a man.
In 2008, he became a part of the show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in its episode “The Theory of Everything”. The BTS video of the episode shows him discussing special effects and several such subjects with the artists involved. Before this, he had been at the Art University in San Francisco, teaching their department of Industrial Design, the art of model making.
In 2006, Savage first appeared on magician James Randi’s annual skeptics’. After this, he became a common visitor at his shows. Adam Savage is also a popular guest on several renowned television talk shows. In 2008, he was invited to the annual Maker Faire, since which he has been visiting more often. During his talking session, he talked about the dodo bird and how much he adored it. The members of the audience loved his presence on the show and fondly asked him questions about his show, Mythbusters.
He even hosted one of the episodes of the Discovery Channel series Curiosity. The subject of his discussion was very intriguing and revolved around the question, “if humans could live forever”. His session covered different subjects like limb regeneration, organ printers, and even age reversal. He even played the role of “Dan” in “Night of the Little Dead”, which was a short film that was released in 2011 and was directed by Frank Ippolito.
In 2012, Adam Savage joined his friend Hyneman on the game show Unchained Reaction, as a judge. Adam Savage also visited San Francisco-based non-profit City Arts & Lectures, to address the enthusiasts and students. In 2014, he was invited as a speaker at the South by Southwest conference.
On June 5, 2012, Adam Savage launched a project named “The Adam savage project”. It was a weekly podcast that was co-hosted by Adam. The podcast encompassed conversations between Adam Savage and the editors-in-chief of his website tested.com, Will Smith and Norman Chan. The subjects of the podcast revolve around science, movies, and several other domains. Each episode of the podcast was 30 to 40 minutes long.
The year 2017 has been a great year for Adam Savage. At the Annual Conference of the American humanist association, he was named humanist of the year. In the prequel of the movie “2049”, (2048: Nowhere to Run), Savage played the role of a merchant selling blood bags. In 2018, a new series was announced by the discovery channel, named MythBusters Jr, that was to be hosted by Adam Savage.
Savage proved to be the perfect host for the show Mythbusters and took the show to new heights of success. The show too added to his fame and hiked his net worth drastically.
Adam Savage Awards & Achievements:
In 2016, Adam Savage was nominated for an award in the category of Outstanding Structured Reality Program. He was nominated for being the Executive Producer of MythBusters, which aired on Discovery Channel. In 2015 and 2014 also, he was nominated for the same.
In 2013, 2012, and 2011, he was nominated in the category of Outstanding Reality Program for his show MythBusters that aired on the Discovery Channel.
What is Adam Savage’s Net Worth?
Adam Savage is an American actor, designer, and host to several popular shows, including super hits like Mythbusters, that aired on the Discovery Channel. Mythbusters is one of the most popular ventures of his life that has added to his fame. Apart from the show, he has also been a part of several Hollywood films. For his large contribution to the Television and Film industry, Adam Savage holds a great fan base across the world. Adam Savage’s net worth is $8 million.
How much does Adam Savage make on YouTube?
For anyone who has watched Mythbusters is familiar with the kind of subjects that are covered in the show. Adam Savage’s YouTube channel “Tested”, covers similar subjects and presents intriguing research on them.
Adam Savage also has his website by the name Tested.com, which is known to provide supplementary content on such subjects. Savage does have a team of people working on his YouTube channel and the website, but it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the maximum part of the revenue generated from his YouTube channel goes to Adam Savage.
His YouTube channel has approximately 6 million subscribers and his videos have approximately 1 billion views on them. As per reports, his channel receives 7 lakh views per day and the statistics suggest that Adam savage earns approximately $3,000 per day.
Conclusion:
Born on 15th July 1967, Adam Whitney Savage is an American special effects designer and fabricator. He is an actor, educator, and television personality by profession, and has produced and acted in many shows. Adam Savage hosted several popular shows like Mythbusters and Unchained Reactions. Most of his ventures have been for the discovery channel.
He has been an animator, graphic designer, carpenter, projectionist, television presenter, film developer, toy designer, gallery owner, and set designer for various ventures. Adam has also been a model maker in several films like Galaxy Quest, Bicentennial Man, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Mummy, The Matrix Reloaded, and Space Cowboys.
