Renee Zellweger Bio, Age, Husband, Kids, Net Worth, Movies & Wiki

About Renee Zellweger

Renee Zellweger is a renowned American actress, Impressive performance, expressive features, sweet voice, and strong artistic prowess has contributed to giving Renee Zellweger the stardom and status that she enjoys today. Born in Texas, young Zellweger enjoyed dramatics just as she did sports and cheerleading. It was a chance taking up of dramatics as the fine arts subject to complete her BA that changed the path of her life completely. She found herself at ease while on stage and no sooner, took it up as a profession. Zellweger started off playing minor roles in several films before she bagged the lead character in the film ‘Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation’.

Her career witnessed a jumpstart when she relocated to Los Angeles. Her first major breakthrough came with the film, ‘Jerry Maguire’ in which she played the love interest of character. The role-play won her international acclaim and commendation. Following this, she starred in super successful flicks like, ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’, ‘Chicago’, ‘Cold Mountain’, and so on. It was her impeccable acting talent that won her an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, thus establishing her as one of the highest-paid actresses of Hollywood.

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Renee Zellweger was born to Swiss father Emil Erich Zellweger and Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, and Sami mother, Kjellfrid Irene, in Texas. While her father is a mechanical and electrical engineer, her mother worked as a nurse and midwife.

Academically, she gained her preliminary education from Katy High School in Texas. She was different from her female friend in school given her tomboyish attitude. Due to the same, she enjoyed what then was called boy’s stuff, playing sports and gymnastics. In addition to sports, she loved cheerleading and dramatics. She was also a member of the drama club.

Post high school education, she enrolled at the University of Texas majoring in the English language. To complete her degree, she took up drama class as she required a fine arts credit. Little did she realize that it would eventually change the course of her life!

Meanwhile, to support herself financially, she took up a job as a waitress. She also acted in a few commercials and the Austin-filmed horror-comedy ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’.

Ѕhе wаѕ еngаgеd tо асtоr Јіm Саrrеу frоm 1999 tо 2000. Іn 2003 ѕhе wеnt оn а рublіс rеlаtіоnѕhір wіth Јасk Whіtе. Ѕhе mаrrіеd ѕіngеr Кеnnу Сhеѕnеу fоr а ѕhоrt реrіоd. Аftеr ѕіх mоnthѕ, thе соuрlе gоt ѕераrаtеd. Zеllwеgеr ѕtаrtеd dаtіng thе dаѕhіng Ноllуwооd асtоr Вrаdlеу Соореr іn 2006. Тhеу bоught а fоur-bеdrооm hоuѕе іn Саlіfоrnіа. Тhеу ѕераrаtеd іn 2011. Рrеѕеntlу ѕhе іѕ іn а rеlаtіоnѕhір wіth Dоуlе Вrаmhаll ІІ.

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Renee Zellweger has a net worth of $90 million.

Renee earned $3.75 million for the very first installment of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2001. Three years later she would earn $11 million to her reprise the role in “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”. In 2002 she made $10 million for her role in “Chicago”. In 2003 she earned $15 million (and an Academy Award) for her work in “Cold Mountain”. In 2005 she made $5 million for “Cinderella Man”.

Today for a big-budget studio film she might earn $10 – $15 million. Thanks to her multiple blockbuster successes and major award win, she is able to take independent film roles for nominal paydays while still maintaining her position as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world.

In 2004, Renee paid $1.32 million for a 40-acre farm in Connecticut. She has attempted to sell this property on a number of occasions but is still the owner as of this writing. She previously owned a complex of apartment units in New York City which she offloaded in 2011 for $7.4 million.

In 2003 she soles a house in LA’s Bel-Air neighborhood to actress Debra Messing for $7 million. Also in 2003, Renee picked up a home in East Hampton, New York for $2.15 million. She listed this home for sale in 2014 for $4.45 million. She ultimately sold this house in December 2014 for $4.65 million.

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• Zellweger appeared in bit parts in mainstream movies like Dazed and Confused (1993) and Reality Bites (1994), before earning praise for her leading roles in the independent films Love and a .45 (1994) and The Whole Wide World (1996), co-starring Vincent D’Onofrio.
• Director Cameron Crowe surprised many when he cast the relatively unknown actress as Dorothy Boyd, the single mother who is swept off her feet by  soul-searching sports agent, in Jerry Maguire (1996).
• The film’s success made Zellweger one of Hollywood’s hottest new commodities, but instead of cashing in with another big-budget feature, she took a risk with independent films like Deceiver (1997), opposite Tim Roth, and A Price Above Rubies (1998), in which she played a rebellious wife in a Hasidic Jewish family.
• Zellweger later turned in a critically acclaimed performance opposite Meryl Streep in One True Thing (1998), an adaptation of Anna Quindlen’s novel about a daughter coping with her mother’s slow death from cancer.
• In 1999, Zellweger starred with Chris O’Donnell in The Bachelor and made headlines for her budding romance with actor and comedian Jim Carrey.
• In the comedy Me, Myself and Irene (2000), written and directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly, Carrey played a character with two personalities, both of whom are in love with Zellweger’s Irene.
• Zellweger enjoyed critical and popular success in 2001 when she starred as the neurotic British title character in the film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s best-selling novel Bridget Jones’s Diary. The film, which also starred Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, earned Zellweger an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
• Bridget Jones’s sequel, The Edge of Reason, was released in 2004, and the actress returned to the role again for 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, in which her character, now single and in her 40s, discovers she is pregnant and must figure out if the father is Mark Darcy (Firth) or Jack Qwant.
• In 2003, Zellweger earned her second Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Chicago, an adaptation of the 1970s musical. The film also starred Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
• That same year, Zellweger starred opposite Ewan McGregor in the retro-romantic comedy Down With Love. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Ruby in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain.
• In 2005, Zellweger co-starred in Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe. The following year, she played famed children’s book writer Beatrix Potter in the biopic, Miss Potter. Her next film projects included Leatherheads (2008), Appaloosa (2008), My One and Only (2009), Case 39 (2009), and My Own Love Song (2010).
• Following roles in the Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) and Here and Now (2018), Zellweger made a rare turn to the small screen in 2019 for the Netflix anthology series What/If, delivering a no-holds-barred performance as a ruthless venture capitalist.
• Later that year, she wowed with her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Hollywood legend in the biopic Judy.

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1. She describes herself as being raised in a “lazy Catholics and Episcopalians” family.
2. She was active in sports as a kid and played football, baseball, soccer, basketball, and many others.
3. She was also a cheerleader in high school. Besides that, she was also a gymnast, and a member of the drama club and speech team.
4. She had also worked as a waitress in Austin, Texas.
5. Renee has a pet dog of collie-golden retriever mix, named Dylan.
6. Zellweger participated in the Swiss health department’s 2005 HIV prevention campaign.
7. To raise awareness and money for Breast Health Institute, she joined hands with Tommy Hilfiger in April 2011.
8. Her wedding ceremony lasted for only 15 minutes.
9. She is friends with ,
10. She is not on social media.