Ryan Higa Nigahiga Net Worth
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- What Is Ryan Higa Nigahiga’s Net Worth?
- Early Life
- Career
- Personal Life
What Is Ryan Higa Nigahiga’s Net Worth?
Ryan Higa is an American YouTube celebrity, actor, comedian, and producer who has a net worth of $10 million. Ryan Higa is best known for creating his popular and well-known YouTube channel, “Nigahiga.” As an actor, he starred in the 2016 film “Tell Me How I Die.” Higa has been nominated for three Streamy Awards and a Young Hollywood Award.
Early Life
Ryan Higa, also known by his YouTube name Nigahiga, was born on June 6, 1990, in Hilo, Hawaii. He attended Waiakea High School, where he was a wrestler. He graduated in 2008. Higa is an alumnus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied nuclear medicine. He competed in Judo and holds the rank of black belt. He later dropped out of university in order to start his career making online videos.
Career
In 2015, Ryan formed the Ryan Higa Production Company, based at a studio in Henderson, Nevada. Higa created a parody K-pop group along with David Choi, Philip Wang, Jun Sung Ahn, and Justin Chon called Boys Generally Asian (BgA) in 2016. Their first song, “Dong Saya Dae,” quickly garnered around 16 million YouTube views. Their second single, “Who’s It Gunna Be,” reached #1 on the K-pop charts. Ryan left the group in 2018 to move to California and pursue a degree in engineering.
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Higa has also seen some success in film and television. Along with director and producer Richard Van Vleet, he created his first official feature-length film, “Ryan and Sean’s Not So Excellent Adventure,” which opened to sold-out theaters across California and Hawaii and was released on DVD in July 2009. Higa also guest-starred in “Supah Ninjas,” playing DJ Elephant Head. In 2016, he appeared in the horror film “Tell Me How I Die.” In 2021, he starred in the Netflix film “Finding ‘Ohana.”
As far as business ventures, Higa created Victorious Inc., which released an app called “TeeHee” in April 2015, but it was shut down just two years later in April 2017. Later that year, he published his memoir, “Ryan Higa’s How to Write Good.” In 2016, Ryan co-founded the LLC Ninja Melk with Kyle Schroeder and Kathleen Hahn. They launched an energy drink in May 2019, which took three years to develop. They made a stop motion short film in October 2019 to promote the drink, which he posted to his “nigahiga” YouTube channel.
Personal Life
Higa dated Tarynn Nago for several years. The couple split in 2010. As of this writing, Ryan has been in a relationship with actress Arden Cho.
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