Matt Stone Biography
Matt Stone is an actor, animator, filmmaker, and composer from the United States best known for co-creating South Park and The Book of Mormon with Trey Parker. As a child and in high school, Stone was interested in film and music, and he attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Parker. They worked together on several short films and co-starred in the feature-length musical Cannibal! The Musical.
How old is Matt Stone? – Age
He is 51 years old as of 26 May 2022. He was born in 1971 in Houston, Texas, United States. His real name is Matthew Richard Stone.
Matt Stone Family – Education
Stone identifies as ethnically Jewish because his mother is Jewish. Stone and his younger sister Rachel grew up in Littleton, Colorado, a Denver suburb, and attended Heritage High School. He went to the University of Colorado at Boulder. His father was concerned that his son would “become a musician and a bum,” so he insisted on a “practical” major for his son. They made a deal for Matt to major in both mathematics and film. Stone earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in 1993.
Matt Stone Wife
Stone met Angela Howard, a Comedy Central executive, in 2001 and began dating soon after. They were married in 2008 and have two children. Stone and his family live in Venice, California.
Matt Stone’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $700 million.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Stone, Parker, Ian Hardin, and McHugh established the Avenging Conscience production company in 1992. The organization was named after the D. W. Griffith film by a similar title (which was effectively loathed by the gathering.) On Avenging Conscience’s first production, Jesus vs. Frosty (1992), an animated short in which the religious figure faces off against Frosty the Snowman, Parker used the cutout paper method.
A three-minute trailer for a fictional movie called Alferd Packer was created by the quartet: The Stage Play Parker’s obsession with Alferd Packer, a real prospector who was accused of cannibalism in the nineteenth century, was the inspiration for the concept. During this time, Parker proposed to his long-term partner, Liane Adamo, but their relationship ended just before the trailer was made. Parker named Packer’s “beloved but disloyal” horse after her, directing his “horribly depressed” anger toward her toward the project.
Virgil Grillo, chairman and founder of the university’s film department, persuaded the quartet to expand the trailer into a feature-length film after it became somewhat of a sensation among school students. Parker wrote the movie’s script, which was a musical based on Oklahoma! with ten original show tunes. The group began filming the movie after raising $125,000 from family and friends. The crew endured the freezing temperatures while filming on Loveland Pass at the end of winter. Parker was the film’s star, director, and co-producer. He worked as Juan Schwartz.
Matt Stone House
In Venice Beach, California, he owns a house. The airy architectural was purchased in 2005 for $3.25 million and is on a rare double lot in a sought-after neighborhood just outside the ultra-fashionable Abbott Kinney shopping and dining district. It has three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and is just over 2,900 square feet in size. It is hidden behind a secure gate and almost completely hidden behind a thicket of tropical plants.
Stone maintains a full-floor, four-bedroom loft with a city-view roof terrace in New York City’s Flatiron District that was acquired in 2008 for $5.15 million and, after first coming to market in May 2018 with an entirely unrealistic $7.5 million price tag, finally sold in April 2019 for $6.15 million. His other Venice Beach property is an itty-bitty cottage on a coveted street that tax records indicate was purchased in 2003 for not quite $800,000.
Matt Stone South Park
South Park’s pilot episode was made on a $300,000 budget and took between three and three and a half months to complete, with animation taking place in a small room at Celluloid Studios in Denver, Colorado, during the summer of 1996. The original pilot, like Parker and Stone’s Christmas shorts, was entirely animated with traditional cut paper stop motion animation techniques. The town of South Park was inspired by the real Colorado basin of the same name, where, according to the creators, a lot of folklore and news reports about “cattle mutilations and UFO and bigfoot sightings” originated.
South Park debuted in August 1997 and quickly became one of the most popular cable television shows, averaging between 3.5 and 5.5 million viewers on a consistent basis. The show transformed the then-fledgling Comedy Central into “a cable industry power almost overnight”. At the time, the cable network had a small subscriber base of only 21 million people. Before its premiere, Comedy Central aggressively promoted the show, billing it as “why they created the V-chip.” The resulting buzz earned the network an estimated $30 million in T-shirt sales before the first episode aired. Comedy Central requested an additional seven episodes due to the success of the series’ first six episodes; the series finished its first season in February 1998.
Previously an MTV Network affiliate, Comedy Central decided, in part due to the success of South Park, to establish its own independent sales department. By the end of 1998, Comedy Central had sold more than $150 million in show merchandise, such as T-shirts and dolls. Over the next few years, Comedy Central’s viewership skyrocketed, owing largely to South Park, with the network adding 3 million new subscribers in the first half of 1998 alone, allowing it to sign international deals with networks in several countries.
Parker and Stone became celebrities as a result of the show’s success; Parker stated that the show’s success allowed him to pursue a lifestyle that included partying with women and “out-of-control binges” in Las Vegas for a time. Their philosophy of taking every deal (which arose as a result of their lack of faith in South Park’s early success) led to appearances in films, albums, and outside script deals. BASEketball, a 1998 comedy film that was a critical and commercial flop, was among them.