Bonnie Bedelia Culkin was born on 25 March 1948, in New York City, USA, to Marian Ethel, a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, a journalist. She is an actress, best known for her roles in the films “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, “Lovers and Other Strangers”, “Die Hard”, “Die Hard 2” and “Presumed Innocent”, and in the television series “The Division” and “Parenthood”.
So how loaded is Bonnie Bedelia? Sources state that Bedelia has acquired a net worth of over $2 million, as of early 2017. The main source of her fortune has been her acting career which actually began in the late 1950s.
Bonnie Bedelia Net Worth $2 Million
Bedelia grew up in New York City, along with her three siblings, with one of her brothers being actor Kit Culkin, and her sister actress Candace Culkin. She attended New York’s Quintano School for Young Professionals, where she was discovered by a talent scout during a school production of “Tom Sawyer”. She made her stage debut aged nine in a 1957 production of “Dr. Praetorius”, and went on to join George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, appearing in several productions of the company, including the television production of the acclaimed “The Nutcracker”. However, not long after she left ballet to focus on her acting career, joining the HB Studio and Actors Studio in New York.
In 1961 she was cast as Sandy Porter in the CBS soap opera “Love of Life”, the role which brought her to prominence, remaining on the show until 1967. Meanwhile, she made her Broadway debut in a 1962 production of “Isle of Children” and went on to appear in several other theater productions, including “My Sweet Charlie”, for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her net worth began to rise.
Bedelia made her film debut in 1969, with the role of Annie Burke in the drama “The Gypsy Moths”. The same year she starred as Ruby in the award-winning drama film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, based on the same-titled novel by Horace McCoy. The following year she starred as Susan Henderson in the comedy film “Lovers and Other Strangers”. Her performances in both films earned Bedelia high praises, greatly contributing to her popularity and to her wealth as well. Other starring film roles followed, such as in “The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie” and “Between Friends”, as well as many television gigs, reinforcing her status of a rising star and increasing her wealth.
Bedelia’s role of race car driver Shirley Muldowney in the 1983 film “Heart Like a Wheel” earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Other notable roles of the time came with the films “Violets Are Blue” and “The Prince of Pennsylvania”, winning an Independent Spirit Award for the latter one. Her performance of Holly Gennaro McClane – the wife of John McClane, Bruce Willis’s character – in the popular action “Die Hard” and its sequel “Die Hard 2” also earned critical acclaim. She followed it with another notable part, playing Barbara Sabich, the wife of Harrison Ford’s character, in the legal drama “Presumed Innocent”. All contributed to Bedelia’s fame and fortune.
Now an established Hollywood star, she went on to earn Emmy nominations for her roles in the ’90s anthology series “Fallen Angels” and the TV film “Locked in Silence”, as well as to receive critical acclaim for her performance of Polly Chalmers in the horror film “Needful Things”.
From 2001 to 2004 she starred as Capt. Kate McCafferty in the crime drama series “The Division”, and another major TV role came in 2010, when she was cast as the matriarch Camille Braverman in the drama series “Parenthood”, improving her net worth once again; she remained on the show until 2015. Bedelia is currently filming the drama “The Scent of Rain and Lightning”.
In her personal life, Bedelia has married three times, firstly to scriptwriter Ken Luber from 1969 to 1980 – they have two children together. She was then married to actor James Telfer, and as of 1995, she has been married to actor Michael MacRae.
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