Paul Elia Biography

Paul Elia happens to be an Assyrian American comedian and actor from Detroit, Michigan. His debut comedy special, Detroit Player, debuted on YouTube in the year 2024. He is an actor and writer famous for his part in Paul Elia: Detroit Player (2023), Conan (2010) and Matt Rife: Natural Selection (2023).

Age

Elia was born on 23rd February the year 1988, in San Diego, California, USA. He is 36 years old as of February 2024.

Family- Parents

Come February 23rd 1988, Elia was born in San Diego, California, his parents were immigrants from Iraq and Assyria. In the year 1994, his family moved to Southfield, a suburb of Detroit. Paul’s father was a butcher for many grocery chains and in his childhood, his mother owned a liquor shop and served as a cashier there. Prior to opting to pursue a profession in comedy, he was only two classes away from getting his bachelor’s degree in English from Wayne State University and had purposed to apply to law school. He has three brothers, who’s professions are in law, neurosurgery, and mortgage banking.

Career

Prior to pursuing his profession as a comedian, he was only two classes away from getting his bachelor’s degree in English from Wayne State University and had purposed to apply to law school. Following his first on Detroit 1-8-7, he moved to Los Angeles, California. When Elia relocated to Hollywood in the year 2011, he began working on his own projects immediately, using the money he saved from working late shifts at a nightclub. Because of his astute networking potential, he was able to secure auditions for several TV series and movies despite not having any significant Hollywood representation (Elia claims he auditioned for over 400 projects before booking his first best paying job: A National ad for Honda).

He immediately began to notice a surge in film and TV roles. When The Arab American News questioned Elia about his challenges, he answered, “You have to take big risks.” Those who take meaningful chances are the ones who succeed.You will usually feel afraid, but how you react to it establishes who you are as a person. Elia has always been outspoken on his Iraqi origins, especially his Assyrian background and the challenges facing his community in the wake of the bloodshed in the Assyrian territories in Iraq. He has as well made a point of voicing the divisions that exist among the Assyrian community, especially between Chaldeans and Syriacs.

Elia has before cited his family (specifically his mother) as being one of the biggest influences in his life, because of her experiences in Iraq and her hard-working lifestyle in one of Michigan’s many impoverish neighborhoods. In respect to his comedy, Elia has sported some of his closest partners, Matt Rife and Bassem Youssef as people who have assisted to strengthen his comedy profession, including assisting him to produce Detroit Player.

Net Worth

He has a net worth estimated at 5 million dollars.

Movies and TV Shows

• 2023 All AT Once
• 2023 Paul Elia: Detroit Player
• 2022 We Need to Talk about America
• 2021 Cultural Blasphemy
• 2020 Doubting Thomas
• 2020 Ramy Kalim
• 2020 Tournament of Laughs
• 2019 TMI Hollywood
• 2018 Broken Minds
• 2018 Dry City
• 2018 Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks
• 2018 Sh#t I Love with Jason Stuart
• 2018-2020 Conan
• 2017 Add-TV
• 2017 Sremm Break
• 2017 Major Crimes
• 2016 Lady Dynamite
• 2016 Open House on Beverly
• 2016 Knives
• 2016 No Other Like You
• 2015 Xanadu