Carolee Campbell is currently 88 years old. Known as the long-time wife of the American character actor, Hector Elizondo, Campbell is famous for her works as an actress. She is also well-known for being a photographer and bookbinder which has contributed to her net worth guesstimated to be at least $1 million.
As an actress, Campbell is admired for playing Nurse Simpson in The Doctors (1967 – 1976) as much as she is remembered for being Emily Kingston and Marian respectively on This is My Son (1977), and Sticky My Fingers… Feet My Feet (1970). It’s been over four decades since Carolee was last seen in a project as an actress, yet she has remained relevant in Hollywood, thanks to her husband.
Profile Summary of Carolee Campbell
- Full Name: Carolee Campbell
- Gender: Female
- Date of Birth: August 13, 1936
- Carolee Campbell’s Age: 88 Years Old
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Nationality: American
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
- Religion: Christianity
- Marital Status: Married
- Carolee Campbell’s Husband: Hector Elizondo
- Duration of Marriage: April 13, 1969 – Present
- Carolee Campbell’s Parents: Ben and Doris Campbell
- Carolee Campbell’s Height: 5 Feet 6 Inches (168 cm/1.68 m)
- Carolee Campbell’s Net worth: $1 Million
- Famous for: Career as an Actress and Marriage to Hector Elizondo
Carolee Campbell Is 88 Years Old and Was Raised in Los Angeles, California
The Doctors actress Carolee Campbell was born on the 13th of August 1936. This means she is 88 years old at the moment and a few months older than her husband. As you would easily find, he was also born in 1936 but on the 22nd of December.
While Carolee Campbell’s husband was born in New York City, she was born in Los Angeles, California, where she presumably spent most of her childhood. Carolee’s mother is Doris Campbell while her father is Ben Campbell. It seems she is the only child of her parents as no record indicates she has a sibling.
No one needs to be told that the former actress is an American of European descent. It’s pretty obvious that she is Caucasian. As for her husband, he was born to Carmen Medina Reyes and Martín Echevarría Elizondo who were Puerto Ricans of Basque and Spanish ancestry.
Her Career as an Actress Began at the Age of 15
Carolee Campbell was already involved in acting from as far back as when she was 15 years old. From what we gathered, her journey in the field began in a theater in Los Angeles. When she turned 20, she moved to New York City to further her training and actively pursue the profession.
This saw her travel and perform in theatres in different parts of the country, though she always did return to New York. In 1964, she was given the offer to become a lifetime member of Actor’s Studio in New York. As far as on-screen works go, Carolee Campbell has only three works to her name. These are:
- Sticky My Fingers… Feet my Feet (1970)
- The Doctors (1967-1976)
- This is My Son (1977)
She Won an Emmy Award While Her Acting Career Lasted
While Carolee Campbell’s career as an actress didn’t last as long as one might expect, she won one of the most coveted gongs in the business, an Emmy. According to IMDb, she won the Daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming. And this was for her role in This Is My Son, a 1977 television movie written by Allan Sloane and directed by Lynwood King.
Nevertheless, other sources have it that the Emmy Award was for her role in The Doctors series. On the NBC show, she played a nurse named Carolee Simpson Aldrich, working with other known names such as David O’Brien.
Carolee Campbell’s Net Worth Is Estimated at $1 Million
Based on the foregoing, it is clear that being an actress was one of the earliest sources of the wealth that Carolee Campbell has accumulated over the years. Several sources have quoted different figures as her net worth. This only goes to show that the true value of her wealth is not known to the public. Be that as it may, it is not hard to believe that she is worth at least $1 million.
Disregarding what she must have made from acting, Hector Elizondo’s wife has also been making a living as a photographer and publisher. In fact, it has been suggested in some quarters that her involvement in photography and other activities related to it was what made her give up acting.
More so, she is a publisher and it is possibly the biggest source of her net worth. It was in 1984 that she inaugurated her publishing company called Ninja Press. Located in Sherman Oaks, California, Ninja Press is known for publishing limited editions of modern poetry amongst other prose.
Her work as a publisher has been influenced by her experience as a photographer and actress. As learned, Ninja Press books have been and are still collected by renowned libraries across the globe. Including the likes of the Library of Congress, The Getty Research Institute, the New York Public Library, The British Library, and more.
Her Net Worth Compared to Her Husband’s
As hinted earlier, Carolee Campbell’s net worth is best known to her, but one can easily believe that she is worth at least $1 million. As it is with Leslie Winston, her acting days are over. So acting has not been her source of income for a long time. Nonetheless, Campbell has had a successful endeavor as a photographer and the proprietor of her publishing company, Ninja Press.
Given that, it is easy to agree that she is worth $1 million. Working with that amount, one could assert that her husband Hector Elizondo is ten times richer than her. According to some reputable platforms known for estimating the wealth of famous people, the American character actor is worth $10 million. Acting is the major source of his wealth as he has been seen in scores of movies and TV shows.
List of All the Sources of Carolee Campbell’s Wealth
- Paychecks from her career as an actress
- Revenues from her career as a photographer
- Income generated from her publishing company, Ninja Press
Carolee Campbell and Hector Elizondo Have Been Married Since 1969
Carolee Campbell and Hector Elizondo met on the NBC show, The Doctors. Soon enough they formed a relationship with bloomed into a romance that saw them exchange wedding vows in 1969. Before this time, Hector had already been in two failed marriages.
An American actor born on December 22, 1936, Carolee Campbell’s husband is notable for portraying Philip Watters in the TV series Chicago Hope. And also for his roles in Last Man Standing (2011-2021), Pretty Woman (1990), The Princess Diaries (2001), Leviathan (1989), and many others.
She Is Hector Elizondo’s Third Wife and They Don’t Have Any Child Together
Hector got married for the first time in 1956 to Marie Rivera with whom he had his only child. As fate would have it, they divorced the following year and he gained full custody of the child, a son named Rodd. He got married the second time to Marie Mandry in 1963. Again, the union packed up the following year.
His third shot at marriage happens to be the charm as he has been married to Campbell for over five decades. Hector and Carolee never had a child together, though the former actress was stepmom to Rodd Elizondo, the son from her husband’s first marriage. Sadly, Rodd Elizondo passed away on February 24, 2017, at the age of 60.
