Owen Wilson’s net worth and successful career
Owen Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter who has a net worth of $70 million. Owen Wilson began his career in Hollywood with a little independent film called Bottle Rocket. The film, which he co-wrote with Wes Anderson. proved to be somewhat of a hit. Owen Wilson followed that up by starring in and co-writing the film, Rushmore, another project with Wes Anderson.
He then went through a period in which Hollywood seemed uncertain of how to market the handsome but slightly hang-dog actor. He played a serial killer and a substance misuse, but it quickly became apparent that while he was quite good at drama, his dramatic work was not catching on with audiences.
In 2000, he was cast opposite Jackie Chan in the immensely successful film, Shanghai Noon. He’d seemingly found his niche as the wise-cracking, droll, comedic sidekick, but he took a moment away from comedy in 2001 to star in the action film, Behind Enemy Lines. Again, audiences weren’t super excited by his dramatic work.
However, in 2001, he co-wrote and co-starred in The Royal Tenenbaums. The combination of Shanghai Noon and The Royal Tenenbaums finally put him on the map in households everywhere. After The Royal Tenenbaums received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the job offers came flooding in.
Since then, he has co-starred or starred in such projects as, Zoolander, Shanghai Knights, Meet the Fockers, Starsky & Hutch, Wedding Crashers, Little Fockers, and Midnight in Paris. Collectively, Owen Wilson’s films have generated more than $2.25 billion in the USA and Canada, with an average of $75 million per film. Wilson is associated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, having starred in a number of his films. He also frequently appears in so-called Brat Pack movies alongside figures like Ben Stiller. He has a successful career in the entertainment industry.
Owen Wilson’s personal life
Owen Cunningham Wilson was born on November 18th, 1968, in Dallas, Texas. Two brothers who would also become actors and filmmakers raised him. His artistically minded parents encouraged the boys to read and often forbade them from watching television. Wilson got expelled from school for stealing his teacher’s geometry textbook.
Although Wilson planned to copy the answers to ace an upcoming exam, his plan backfired, and authorities sent him to military school in New Mexico. Upon his return, he attended the University of Texas at Austin and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
In 2011, Owen Wilson fathered a son with girlfriend Jade Duell, although they later ended their relationship. Wilson fathered a second son with Caroline Lindqvist, another ex-girlfriend.
In 2018, he and another girlfriend called Varunie Vongsvirates had a daughter together before also ending their relationship. Speaking in 2019, Vongsvirates admitted that Wilson had never seen his daughter. Some people allege that Wilson pays her $35,000 per month in child support, which amounts to about $435,000 per year.
