Renée Kathleen Zellweger (; born April 25, 1969) 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.
Born and raised in Texas, Zellweger studied English literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Initially aspiring for a career in journalism, she was drawn to acting following her brief work on stage during college. Following minor roles in Dazed and Confused (1993) and Reality Bites (1994), her first starring role came with the slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). She rose to prominence with starring roles in the romantic comedy Jerry Maguire (1996), the drama One True Thing (1998), and the black comedy Nurse Betty (2000), winning a Golden Globe Award for the last of these.
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Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from the Swiss town of Au, St. Gallen.[7] He was a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil-refining business.[8] Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen),[8] is Norwegian of Kven[9] and Sámi descent.[10] Kjellfrid grew up in Ekkerøy near the town Vadsø in the northern part of Norway.[11] She was a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas.[12][13][14] Referring to her religious background, Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of “lazy Catholics and Episcopalians”.[14]
Zellweger attended Katy High School, where she was a cheerleader, gymnast, and debate team member[15][irrelevant citation]. She also participated in soccer and powder football (a traditional girls football game). [14] In 1986, her academic paper, “The Karankawas and Their Roots”, won third place in the first-ever Houston Post High School Natural Science Essay Contest.[16] After high school, she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1992.[17] While at the university, she took a drama course as an elective, which sparked her interest in acting.[12]
In her junior year, her father lost his job and was unable to support her at college, so she took a job as a cocktail waitress in Austin, Texas.[12][18] She said of the job, “I learned a lot. As much as I did in my classes that that club paid for… I learned not to judge people, [and] that things are not black and white.”[12] She began getting small parts acting, and earned her Screen Actors Guild card for doing a Coors Light commercial.[19] Also while in college, she did “a bit part … as a local hire” in the Austin-filmed horror-comedy film My Boyfriend’s Back, playing “the girl in the beauty shop, maybe two lines. But the beauty shop [scene] got cut.”[19] Her first job after graduation was working in a beef commercial, while simultaneously auditioning for roles around Houston, Texas.
Personal life
Relationships
From 1999 to 2000, Zellweger was engaged to Jim Carrey. In 2003, she had a brief relationship with musician Jack White. In May 2005, Zellweger married singer Kenny Chesney. Four months later, Zellweger obtained an annulment. In 2009, she started dating Bradley Cooper, after having met on the set of Case 39 which was filmed in 2006. They separated in 2011.
From 2012 to 2019, she was in a relationship with musician Doyle Bramhall II. In June 2021, she was reported to be dating English television presenter Ant Anstead.
Activism
Zellweger took part in the 2005 HIV prevention campaign of the Swiss federal health department.
Zellweger is one of the patrons for gender equality foundation The GREAT Initiative; in 2011 she visited Liberia with the charity. In April 2011, she collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger to design a handbag to raise money and awareness for the Breast Health Institute. “Because of the experiences of close friends and family members who have had to endure and battle the challenges of breast cancer, I am a passionate supporter of breast health education and charitable causes”, Zellweger stated about joining the campaign.
Houses
Zellweger has owned properties in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Connecticut, and Texas.
Awards and nominations
Among her numerous accolades for her acting work, Zellweger has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, an Independent Spirit Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, a British Independent Film Awards, and awards from the London Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Zellweger is only the fourth actress, after Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, and Cate Blanchett, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress and the seventh actress to win in both categories after Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, Helen Hayes, Streep, Lange, and Blanchett.
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Net Worth
The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.
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