Edward Zwick, also known as Ed Zwick and Edward M. Zwick, is an American film director, producer, TV director, actor, screenwriter and businessperson who has estimated net worth as high as $20 million. E. Zwick has made his career mostly thanks to his films which concentrate largely on social and racial problems in society. The most notable movies directed by M. Zwick are “Love & Other Drugs”, “Blood Diamond”, “The Siege”, “Glory”, “Pawn Sacrifice” and “Legends of the Fall”. He is one of the highest paid film producers and directors in the United States and one of the richest celebrities in show business today. (He is unrelated to Joel Zwick, who is also known as American film director.)
Edward Zwick Net Worth $20 Million
Edward M. Zwick was born on October 8, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. After graduation from New Trier High School, he attended the private non-profit AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and graduated in 1975. At the beginning of his career Zwick worked with the famous “Rolling Stone ” magazine as a journalist. His first work as a film director was released in 1986 with a film entitled “About Last Night…” in which starred such popular artists as Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. That’s how Ed Zwick began to build up his net worth successfully. The film was considered to be successful and even received 4 stars out of 4 from Roger Ebert writing the review on “About The Last Night…”.
Despite the really successful debut , it was no where near as popular his the second movie. In 1989 Zwick released “Glory” and increased his net worth considerably. This movie was critically acclaimed and until nowadays remains one of the best movies in the war drama genre. Edward’s net worth increased again after “Legends of the Fall” was released in 1994. Together with such great actors as Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, Brad Pitt, Henry Thomas and Aidan Quinn, Zwick was able to create a great epic drama film which raised Ed’s net worth again.
E. Zwick is an interesting personality also because he was one of the several creators who managed to work both with Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio. This, of course, could only increase Zwick’s net worth again.
Ed Zwick remains an active personality who continues in flim-making. In 2014 alone he produced four movies, and as these became as popular as other movies which Zwick has directed, it only raised Zwick’s net worth again. In 2014 Zwick produced “About Alex”, “Cut Bank” and “Boys of Abu Ghraib”, adding to the five he has released in the past five years, one of them being the popular “Love & Other Drugs”.
The success of Ed Zwick is going to help him earn even more money in the near future, as he shows no sign of slowing down in his career as a great TV producer and director.
