Leigh Whannell has a net worth of $55 million. A writer, actor, and also producer, Leigh is generally known as the co-writer and the other with the co-stars of the first "Saw" video.

Whannell believes he inherited his love regarding storytelling from his mother and his fondness of filmmaking from his father. When it's in film school, he met James Wan, with whom he eventually teamed up to write and direct Saw in 2004.