Sunny Suljic Net Worth: Age, Profession, Income, and Personal Life

Nobody who runs one of those “Sunny Suljic net worth” pages has ever touched a real number. I want to be really clear about that.Because the whole story people tell about this kid — skate park prodigy, A24 breakout, voice of one of gaming’s most beloved characters — gets quietly hijacked by a paragraph of made-up figures every time it’s written down, and most readers never notice the sleight of hand.

Let me be direct: when every source range starts at $1 million and ends at $5 million with zero evidence in between, those are not estimates. They’re guesses dressed in spreadsheet clothes. I checked this for longer than I ought to have. Here’s what I found.

Quick Bio

Detail	Info
Full name	Sunny Suljic
Born	August 10, 2005, Roswell, Georgia
Parents	Bosnian father; Polish-born mother of Russian-Jewish descent
Age (as of 2026)	20 years old
Career start	Short film Ruined, 2013
Breakout role	Stevie in Mid90s (A24, 2018)
Most lucrative franchise	Atreus in God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarök (2022)
Awards	Two BAFTA nominations, one Game Awards nomination (no confirmed wins)
Skate sponsors (confirmed, 2018)	Illegal Civ, adidas, Shake Junt, Orbs wheels
Latest film	Lurker (Mubi, August 2025)
Estimated net worth	1M–3M range (unverified; no salary data exists publicly)
Disclosed salary or contract	None. Zero.

The Internet’s Dumbest Confidence Trick

You’ve seen this before. Type any young actor’s name into Google, add “net worth,” and within three results you’ll get a number delivered with total certainty. For Sunny Suljic, the game goes like this: one page says $1.5 million in 2023. Another says $1.6 million in 2024 — updated for inflation, it clarifies, which is the most ridiculous phrase I’ve seen applied to a guess. A third says $3 million flat. One page headlines $3 million and then, in its own FAQ section six paragraphs later, says approximately $1 million. Same article. Different number.

Then there’s the page that says he was born in Vienna, to a German mother and an Australian father. Vienna. The man was born in Roswell, Georgia. Every credible source agrees: Wikipedia (citing a Nine Club interview), multiple trade profiles, his own interviews during the Mid90s press circuit. The continent and the number were both made up on one sheet.

Here’s what bothers me most. These pages appear on what look like university domains — a Barnard economics subdomain, a Cal Poly library subdomain — lending institutional-looking addresses to copy-pasted nonsense. Some appear to be hijacked or abandoned subdomains stuffed with SEO filler. The apparent credibility is the trick. There’s no economist from Barnard who studied Sunny Suljic’s earnings. There is a content-farm script that found a trustworthy-looking URL to hide inside.

No disclosed salary. No contract. No agent deal. No brand endorsement fee on record anywhere. Hold that fact while we go through the actual career.

2013: The Short Film Nobody Mentions

The story usually begins at a skate park in 2016 or 2017, when Jonah Hill spotted a talented kid and destiny intervened. That’s the version that gets told.

But Suljic’s first screen credit is Ruined, a 2013 short film where he played Jody Dunlap. He was seven or eight years old. He appeared in 1915 and The Unspoken in 2015, and picked up a one-episode credit on Criminal Minds in 2014 playing Young Joe Bachner.

That last part matters. Child actors working TV procedurals and low-budget indie shorts at age eight don’t just materialize. There’s a parent involved, an agent, a production infrastructure around the child. None of the net worth pieces mention this history. They want the clean cinematic arc — anonymous skater kid plucked from obscurity by famous director — because it sells better than “working child actor with pre-existing credits.”

The prior credits probably didn’t make him much money. Short films and single TV episodes don’t pay the way leads do. But the gap between the narrative and the timeline is telling. The “overnight story” had been building for three years before anyone paid attention.

The Discovery That Was Half Engineered

Everybody loves the Jonah Hill skate park story. The details keep shifting.

Rotten Tomatoes’ editorial says Hill — scouting with Lucas Hedges — spotted Suljic in person and knew immediately. Paper Magazine says it was co-producer Mikey Alfred who found him at Stoner Skate Plaza in the Sawtelle neighborhood of LA. The i-D version has Alfred making the introduction by showing Hill Suljic’s Instagram. Suljic himself said in that same i-D interview, “I think Jonah may have already made up his mind before I even auditioned.” That’s a fascinating observation for a 13-year-old to make about his own casting process.

Here’s the thing about Mikey Alfred: he is the founder of Illegal Civ — the skateboarding brand sponsoring Suljic at the time. He’s simultaneously the kid’s board sponsor, the person who introduced him to Hill, and a co-producer on the film. That’s a tight little circle where brand loyalty and professional opportunity blur together completely. Not necessarily shady. Just not the simple “right place, right time” story the press circuit prefers.

The casting story also obscures something Suljic confirmed in multiple interviews: he was already acting. He’d trained at John Casablancas. He had credits. He had already worked with Yorgos Lanthimos on The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), where he played Bob Murphy alongside Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. So when Hill’s team found him, they found a 12-year-old who had already done a Lanthimos film. The park story is real. It’s also incomplete.

What the A24 Money Probably Looked Like

Mid90s had a production budget of $1.7 million per Wikipedia. The Numbers puts it at $2.8 million. These two figures appear across dozens of articles, and nobody ever reconciles them. The worldwide gross, at least, is consistent: about $9.3 million.

Think about what those numbers mean for a child lead’s paycheck. A $1.7 million production needs to pay crew, equipment, locations, all the adult cast — Lucas Hedges was already recognized, Katherine Waterston is a name, and Jonah Hill took a writer-director fee — and then there’s the teenage lead in nearly every scene.

Jonah Hill called Suljic’s performance extraordinary. At the NYFF panel, per Hollywood Reporter, Hill said he’d “never had to carry a movie like that.” Career-making quote. Whether it came with career-making money on a sub-$3 million budget is a genuinely open question, and I haven’t seen anyone ask it seriously.

California’s Coogan Law requires 15% of a minor’s gross earnings go into a protected trust, accessible at 18. Whatever he made, 15% was ring-fenced. Agent, manager, entertainment attorney took their cuts from the rest. On a micro-budget A24 indie, the math gets humble fast. I’m not saying he wasn’t compensated fairly. I’m saying the gap between “A24 breakout” and “substantial money” doesn’t close automatically.

God of War: The Franchise Nobody Prices Out Loud

The God of War credit is the one that makes net worth estimators excited. “Major video game franchise!” Sure. But video game performer deals are notoriously opaque, and they’ve been the source of active labor conflict for years.

Suljic was attached from when the first game was revealed at E3 2016, which would have made him around ten years old. Atreus was modeled on his physical stature and voice from those early sessions. Then the pandemic hit and stretched Ragnarök‘s production across years during which, as dialogue supervisor Jodie Kupsco stated publicly, his voice “changed dramatically.” They re-recorded substantial portions of his dialogue to match the character’s age within the game, because the real teenager had aged past the sound they needed.

More recording sessions could mean more pay. Or re-recordings fell under the original deal. I genuinely have no idea, and neither does anyone with a net worth website. SAG-AFTRA’s video game strike ran from July 2024 until ratification in mid-2025, delivering a 15.17% pay increase and new AI protections for performers. Whether Suljic’s work fell under those minimums or an overscale lead deal, and what either would have paid across two major titles, is not in any public record.

Both BAFTA nominations are confirmed. The Game Awards nomination for Ragnarök is confirmed. A win? I couldn’t find one. The farms say award-winning. That’s a nomination list read sloppily or deliberately.

The Quiet Years Nobody Explains

After 2018’s run — The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Mid90s, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, The House with a Clock in Its Walls — the on-screen film credits go quiet. The Christmas Chronicles 2 for Netflix arrives in 2020, supporting role. North Hollywood in 2021, supporting. Then essentially nothing until Lurker in 2025.

That is a long pause for someone described as a breakout. Either he chose quiet, the industry chose it for him, or both. Probably both. The child-to-adult transition has eaten more acting careers than it’s spared. He kept skating throughout it — every interview suggests that never stopped — and continued the Ragnarök voice work through 2022. But on-screen live-action leading work? Four years, silence.

I’m not diagnosing this. I don’t know his choices, what was offered, what was declined. What I know is that the farms skip the gap entirely, smoothing from Mid90s to Lurker without remarking on four years because an uninterrupted ascent is a better story for a net worth article. Real careers have strange gaps. Real net worths reflect them.

***Lurker*, 2025, and Whether the Moment Is Now**

Lurker premiered at Sundance in January 2025 to strong notices. Mubi acquired it after a competitive bidding war — they also released The Substance, for context on what “Mubi acquires after bidding war” means in terms of prestige — and set a theatrical release for August 22, 2025. The film follows a retail clerk who works his way into a pop star’s inner circle. Suljic plays Jamie, the co-worker who acts like a dorky fan when the star walks in. Supporting role, not lead.

The Playlist gave it an A-. It screened at Berlinale and closed New Directors/New Films. By any measure, a quality project with serious distribution. Whether quality Mubi supporting roles translate into significant income is a different calculation from whether they improve your position for the next negotiation. They do the latter. The former is unclear.

He’s 20. The Coogan trust money released at 18 — whatever was set aside over those childhood years is his now. He’s old enough to negotiate adult deals without parental countersignature. His career has not peaked. I say that with real confidence based on who keeps hiring him and what the projects are.

My Final Read, Plainly Stated

There’s a version of this piece where I invent a confident figure and send you off satisfied. I’m not doing that. The number would be as made-up as every other one you’ve seen, just dressed in slightly more honest prose.

What the evidence actually supports: somewhere between $1 million and $3 million, weighted toward the lower half given what we know about indie budgets, minor’s pay structures, and the reality that his most visible credit is in an industry that just spent 11 months on strike partly because it wasn’t paying performers fairly. The God of War work is probably his single largest income source, and that sits behind union rate cards nobody publishes.

But let’s be honest about what’s more interesting than the number. The financial conversation around Sunny Suljic is mostly invented, and the actual person — a kid who started acting at seven, who was a working child actor before anyone famous noticed him, who went through puberty mid-franchise for a studio’s scheduling convenience, who disappeared from leading film roles for four years and came back to Sundance — is more complicated and more interesting than whatever figure a content farm drops onto a hijacked .edu subdomain.

The number will eventually be findable. Right now, it isn’t. Anyone who told you otherwise was guessing at best. I’d rather give you the honest shape of the gap.

FAQs

1. What is Sunny Suljic’s net worth in 2026?

Nobody outside his accountant can say with confidence. The range that most credibly reflects his known career — indie film budgets, video game union work, skateboard sponsorships — sits between $1 million and $3 million, probably toward the lower half. Any site printing a precise figure pulled it from nothing.

2. How much was he paid for Mid90s?

Never disclosed. The total production budget was somewhere between $1.7 million and $2.8 million depending on your source, and that covered an entire film crew plus adult cast. Child lead on a micro-budget indie is not the same financial situation as child lead on a studio franchise, and anyone who implies otherwise is flattering a number.

3. Is he actually a pro skateboarder?

Wikipedia calls him a professional skateboarder, and the 2018 sponsor list is real: Illegal Civ, adidas, Shake Junt, Orbs. He’s told every interviewer who asked that skating is non-negotiable in his life. What he earns from it specifically, nobody’s published.

4. How much do God of War voice actors make?

SAG-AFTRA minimums apply, overscale deals exist for leads, and the new 2025 Interactive Media Agreement added a 15.17% pay raise. Nobody publishes individual performer rates. Across two major titles over roughly six years, it’s likely his biggest single income source — that’s inference from industry structure, not a contract.

5. Is he still the voice of Atreus?

Yes, through both games. The studio had to re-record significant dialogue for Ragnarök because his voice changed during the pandemic-delayed production. No confirmed third installment exists as of this writing.

6. Why did his film career slow down after 2018?

Undocumented. Four largely quiet years between 2021 and Lurker in 2025. The child-to-adult transition is brutal for any actor; his path through it just wasn’t publicized. The farms skip this stretch entirely. I find that more interesting than they apparently do.

7. Where was he born?

Roswell, Georgia. One site said Vienna, Austria. That site was wrong about the city, the country, and both parents’ nationalities simultaneously. Use that as your calibration for how much to trust these sources.

8. Has he won any awards?

Nominated — twice for BAFTA, once for the Game Awards — but I found no confirmed wins. Multiple content farms call him an award winner. Read nomination lists more carefully than they did.

9. What is Lurker and is it worth watching?

A psychological thriller about parasocial obsession, directed by The Bear and Beef writer Alex Russell. Suljic plays a supporting role. Sundance 2025, Mubi acquisition, strong reviews. Worth your time regardless of your investment in Suljic specifically.

10. Was he really discovered randomly at a skate park?

Not exactly. He had prior acting credits, was already skate-sponsored by the film’s co-producer, and had just completed The Killing of a Sacred Deer with Nicole Kidman. The park encounter happened. The “random discovery” framing is a myth layered over a more textured set of connections.

11. Who are his parents?

According to Wikipedia — the only source I found that cites something real on this — his father is Bosnian and his mother is Polish-born of Russian-Jewish descent. He keeps family details private, which is his right, and I’m not going to speculate beyond what he’s confirmed or what’s documented.

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