Owen Wilson has an estimated net worth of $45 million. Self-proclaimed troublemaker, Owen Wilson grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura, a photographer, his father who was an ad exec, and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and Luke Wilson (the youngest). Expelled from St. Mark's Academy in Dallas Texas in the tenth grade, Wilson finished his sophomore year at Thomas Jefferson School and then headed to a military academy in New Mexico.
He then attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he met his future mentor and friend, Wes Anderson. They wrote a screenplay, Bottle Rocket (1996), and sent it to their family friend, screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson, who sent it to producer Polly Platt, who gave it to James L. Brooks, who gave the Texans $5 million dollars to make it into a feature film. Despite critical praise, Bottle Rocket (1996) only grossed one million dollars.
After making the film, Wilson moved to Hollywood, setting up a house with his two brothers and Anderson. Fairly quickly, Owen found himself acting in a series of big budget films that scraped the bottom of the critical barrel, such as the dreadful The Cable Guy (1996), The Haunting (1999), Anaconda (1997) and Breakfast of Champions (1999).
ACTOR's Agency: United Talent Agency
Salary according to Vanity Fair:
2010 Earnings according to Vanity Fair Magazine: $19.5 Million (2009 rank: 16)
$8 million: Hall Pass (fee for starring in upcoming Farrelly-brothers comedy)
$8 million: The Big Year (fee for co-starring in upcoming comedy with Jack Black)
$2.5 million: Cars 2 (fee for voice work for upcoming Pixar sequel)
$1 million: Older film revenue
Salary according to IMDB:
The Big Year (2011) $8,000,000
Cars 2 (2011) $2,500,000
Hall Pass (2011) $8,000,000
Little Fockers (2010) $15,000,000
How Do You Know (2010) $8,000,000
Marmaduke (2010) $1,000,000
Wedding Crashers (2005) $10,000,000
Starsky & Hutch (2004) $10,000,000
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) $3,000,000
Zoolander (2001) $2,000,000
Shanghai Noon (2000) $4,000,000
Earnings & Financial Data
Date | Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Salary | Salary from Hall Pass | $8,000,000 |
2010 | Salary | Salary from Cars 2 | $2,500,000 |
2010 | Salary | Salary from The Big Year | $8,000,000 |
2009 | Salary | Salary from the film "Hall Pass" | $8,000,000 |
2009 | Salary | Fee for voice work for upcoming sequel Cars 2 | $2,000,000 |
2009 | Salary | Salary from Little Fockers | $15,000,000 |
2009 | Salary | Salary from How Do You Know | $8,000,000 |
2009 | Salary | Salary from Marmaduke | $1,000,000 |
2008 | Salary | Salary from the film "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian". | $2,000,000 |
2008 | Royalties | Royalties earned from his older films | $1,000,000 |
2008 | Salary | Salary from the film "Marmaduke" | $1,000,000 |
2008 | Salary | Salary from the film "Little Fockers" | $15,000,000 |
2008 | Salary | Salary from the film 'Marley & Me' | $2,000,000 |
2008 | Salary | Salary from the Untitled James L. Brooks project in 2009 | $8,000,000 |
2007 | Salary | Salary from the film "The Big Year" | $8,000,000 |
2004 | Salary | Salary from Wedding Crashers | $10,000,000 |
2003 | Salary | Salary from Starsky & Hutch | $10,000,000 |
2000 | Salary | Salary from Zoolander | $2,000,000 |
2000 | Salary | Salary from Behind Enemy Lines | $3,000,000 |
1999 | Salary | Salary from Shanghai Noon | $4,000,000 |