What is Dante Basco's Net Worth?
Dante Basco is an American actor, voice actor, poet, and dancer with a net worth of $500 thousand. Born on August 29, 1975, in Pittsburg, California, and raised in Cerritos and Paramount, California, he is of Filipino American descent. Basco attended the prestigious Orange County High School of the Arts in Southern California.
Basco is perhaps best known for his role as Rufio in the 1991 live-action Peter Pan film, "Hook." His voice acting work includes notable roles such as voicing Zuko in the Nickelodeon series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and Jake Long in the Disney series "American Dragon: Jake Long." Additionally, he had guest roles on popular television shows like "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper," and he had a recurring role on "Moesha."
In his career, Basco has portrayed various characters of Asian descent, but he notably played a Filipino-American character alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film "The Debut." He and his brothers also starred in the sitcom "Naked Brown Men." In the 1999 film "But I'm A Cheerleader," Basco took on the role of a gay teenager. He starred as breakdancer Ramos in the 2006 film "Take the Lead" alongside Antonio Banderas. Basco has frequently showcased his hip-hop dancing skills in many films, along with dancing in a Verizon Wireless commercial and rapping and breaking in a Sprite commercial.
