Renee Zellweger Age, Husband, Children, Net Worth: Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world’s highest-paid actresses by 2007.
Renee Zellweger Age, Husband, Children, Net Worth
| Name | Renee Zellweger |
| Net Worth 2023 | $90 Million |
| Profession | Actress |
| Country | United States of America |
| Born | April 25, 1969 |
| Last Updated | 2023 |
Early Life
Renee Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969 and raised in Katy, Texas. Her father, Emil Erich, is from the Swiss town of Au, St. Gallen and was a mechanical engineer, and her mother, Kjellfrid, was a nurse and midwife who moved from Norway to the U.S. to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger was a very active athlete during her time at Katy High School, participating in cheerleading, soccer, football, and other sports and activities. She was also active in drama and speech. She went to UT Austin after high school, working as a cocktail waitress after her father lost his job and was unable to support her, and graduated with an English degree in 1991. With a sparked interest in acting, she began getting small roles, her first being a Coors Light commercial.
Personal Life
Zellweger was engaged to Jim Carry from 1999-2000. She married singer Kenny Chesney in May 2005, but the marriage was annulled four months later. Renee dated Bradley Cooper from 2009-2011. From 2012 to 2019 she was in a relationship with fellow Texas-born musician Doyle Bramhall II. Zellweger is active with the GREAT Initiative, which is a gender equality foundation, and visited Liberia with the organization in 2011. She collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger in 2011 to design a handbag to raise money for the Breast Health Institute.
Career
In 1994, Zellweger’s first leading role came in the slasher movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, following small parts in Dazed and Confused (1993) and Reality Bites (1994).
She became well-known for her leading parts in One True Thing, Nurse Betty, and Jerry Maguire. She subsequently went on to appear in movies in the 2000s as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago, Cinderella Man, Bridget Jones in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Bridget Jones’s Baby. She received an Academy Award after appearing in Cold Mountain. Along with acting, she has also served as executive producer in the films, Miss Potter and Living Proof.
In 2019, Zellweger played Judy Garland in the biopic Judy and made her debut on television in the Netflix series What/If and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2022, in the NBC crime miniseries The Thing About Pam, she played Pam Hupp and also served as an executive producer. Zellweger has also voiced a character in the series, King of The Hill as well as animated films like Monsters Vs Aliens, Bee Movie, and Shark Tale.