Robin Gayle Wright was born on 8 April 1966, in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress and director most probably best known for her performance as Claire Underwood in the hit television series “House of Cards”. She’s also been in popular films including “Forrest Gump”, “Moneyball”, “Unbreakable” and “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”. Her various endeavors in film have helped raise her net worth to where it is now.
How rich is Robin Wright? As of early-2016, sources estimate that her net worth is at $65 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting and directing. Thanks to her performances she’s been nominated many times by Award-giving institutions. She continues to work, which means her wealth will likely still steadily increase.
Robin Wright Net Worth $65 Million
Robin attended La Jolla High School and later Taft High School in Los Angeles. She started her career at a young age already becoming a model at 14 years old. She was eventually cast in the role of Kelly Capwell in the NBC series “Santa Barbara”, which earned her three Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Her popularity and net worth would soon rise incrementally, as she starred in movies like “The Princess Bride” and “Forrest Gump”; for her role in the latter, in which she starred alongside Tom Hanks, she was nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
She later discovered she was pregnant and had to turn down roles for a while. Her next appearance would be after she changed her name to Robin Wright Penn, starring in the film “Moll Flanders”, receiving a Satellite nomination for Best Actress in a Drama for her role. She also starred alongside Sean Penn in the film “She’s So Lovely” which earned her another Screen Actors Guild nomination. She then went on and starred in the television film “Empire Falls” as the mother of Ed Harris’ character. This earned her a third Screen Actors Guild nomination. All these achievements certainly helped her net worth to rise.
One of her latest roles started in 2013, in the Netflix-produced series “House of Cards”, in which she plays the role of Claire Underwood, the wife of the political mastermind Frank Underwood. She has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role, and became the first actress to win an award off an online-only television series. She has continued to receive nominations for the same role in the following years. One of her latest projects is the 2017 film “Wonder Woman”, which stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine.
For her personal life, it is known that she was married to actor Dane Witherspoon from 1986 to 1988, having met on the set of “Santa Barbara”. In 1989, she became involved with actor Sean Penn after his divorce with Madonna; they had a daughter and a son, and eventually married in 1996. Their relationship has been a story in itself – on and off, and multiple divorces were filed but then withdrawn later on. The first divorce plans were announced in 2007 but were called off. The couple were then later spotted in the 81st Academy Awards, where Sean Penn won as Best Actor. The filed for legal separation in 2009 but withdrew, then eventually filed for divorce in mid-2009, finalizing it in 2010. By this time Robin had dropped Penn from her name. In 2012, Wright was dating actor Ben Foster and they were engaged, but called it off. They reunited in 2015, but have apparently ended the relationship again.
