Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on 28th November 1984, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina USA, and is an actress, singer and model, perhaps best known for her roles in films including “Death Proof”, “Destination 3” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”, and also for her leading role in the TV series “The Returned”. Winstead has been active in the entertainment industry since 1997.
How rich is the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the net worth of Mary Elizabeth Winstead is equal to $2 million, as of the data presented at the beginning of 2018. Film and television are the major sources of Winstead’s wealth.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Actress) Net Worth $2 million
To begin with, the girl was actually raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, with four older siblings by her parents James Ronald Winstead and Betty Lou Knight. She wanted to be a ballerina from a young age, so attended the Joffrey Ballet School in New York from the age of eleven, but also soon began acting.
Concerning her professional career, she debuted as an actress in the late 1990s, appearing in episodes of the television series “Touched by an Angel” and “Promised Land”, before being chosen for her first leading role as Jessica Bennett in the series “Passions” in 1999, played until 2000. Then she appeared in the short series “Wolf Lake” (2001 – 2002), and in the movie created for television “Monster Island” (2004). In 2005, Mary was part of a large ensemble of adolescent actors in the successful film created by Walt Disney Pictures – “Sky High”. The same year, she played a part in a Jewish family in disarray in the film “Checking Out”, then in the horror film “Final Destination 3” (2006), the actress landed the lead role of Wendy Christensen, with the film subsequently grossing $117.7 million at the box office, from a budget of $25 million, which considerably boosted Mary’s reputation and net worth.
Subsequently, she was offered one of the main roles in “Black Christmas”, a reproduction of the 1974 horror movie of the same name, but Mary refused because she did not want to be identified with such roles; the director convinced her later to accept the support role of Heather Lee. She also starred in the film “Bobby” (2006) for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination, then played Lucy McClane’s role in “Live Free or Die Hard”, which was officially released in mid-2007. In 2010, Winstead was selected as the lead artist Dr. Kate Lloyd in the film “The Thing”, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., adding steadily to her net worth.
In 2012, she helped form the musical group Got a Girl; the first studio album of the band was called “I Love You but I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now”, and was released in 2014. The same year she stared in the film “Alex of Venice”, directed by Chris Messina, and then she was the protagonist in the movie “Faults”, which has received positive reviews, before appearing in the film “Kill the Messenger”. In 2015, she took part in the horror mystery TV series “The Returned”, which was successful in the US and part of Latin America, and received good reviews according to Rotten Tomatoes. A year later, she starred in the thriller “10 Cloverfield Lane” directed by Dan Trachtenberg, which premiered in March 2016, and received a positive reaction from both the audience and professional critics. That same year she played Gwen Hollar in the dramatic film “The fHollars” with Anna Kendrick, and From 2016 to 2017, the actress had a main role in the television series “Mercy Street”, before in 2017 Winsted moved on to portray Nikki Swango in the third season of the series “Fargo”, consistently adding to her net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, married Riley Stearns in 2010, but the two divorced in 2017.
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