How much is Guy Ritchie worth?
| Net Worth: | $150 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Director (age 53) |
| Date of Birth: | September 10, 1968 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Height: | 1.8 m |
About Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie was born on September 10, 1968 and is an English film director, producer, writer, and businessman with an estimated net worth of $150 million. Guy Ritchie suffers from dyslexia and dropped out of school at age 15. Ritchie got his start in the film industry as a runner on Wardour Street. From there he progressed to making music videos and commercials. In 1995 he wrote and directed the short film The Hard Case.
Guy Ritchie married pop singer Madonna on December 22, 2000. The couple have two children – a son, Rocco John, and an adopted Malawian boy, David Banda. In the summer of 2008 rumors swirled that their marriage was in trouble, with Madonna linked to baseball star Alex Rodriguez. After months of discounting the rumors, the couple filed for divorce in October 2008.
Ritchie’s first feature film, 1996’s Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, showed he was a force to be reckoned with in the film community. He followed that up with the 2000 hit Snatch starring Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro and Dennis Farina.
Ritchie’s career hit a bump in the road when he decided to work with his wife, Madonna, on the 2002 box office bomb Swept Away. Ritchie bounced back with Revolver in 2005 and RocknRolla in 2008. 2008 also found him signing on to write and direct Sherlock Holmes. Producer Joel Silver described Ritchie’s take on the classic character as, “It’s like a James Bond film from 1891. It has a Butch and Sundance kind of quality between Jude Law as Dr Watson and Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes. It’s going to be a really fun, great picture.”
After Sherlock Holmes was a box-office hit, taking more than $520 million worldwide, in 2011, Ritchie directed the sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. It was another commercial success, grossing more than $545 million worldwide.
In 2012, Ritchie produced a trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Then next up H&M ordered an advertisement to be produced featuring David Beckham, Guy Richie directed the commercial.
With a remake of the 1960s spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Richie returned to film in 2015 with a splash. It was filmed in London and Italy and starred Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
With Charlie Hunnam portraying King Arthur, Richie directed the first of six films in a franchise, fantasy adventure King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, in 2017. However after mixed reviews the proposed sequels were called off.
That year 2017, Ritchie was the recipient of the Raindance Auteur Award for his contributions to the British film industry.
In 2020, Ritchie returned once again with his forté, a crime-comedy Guy Richie-stye called, The Gentlemen. It starred Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant.
As of 2023, Guy Ritchie’s net worth is estimated to be about $150 million.
Thandie Newton on working with Guy Ritchie on RocknRolla: “Lovely. I’d do it a movie a year please with Guy Ritchie. He’s just very straightforward. There’s no fuss, gets on with it. He doesn’t pander to your every whim, but at the same time he doesn’t disrespect you. It’s just very honest – very, very honest, straightforward. And I just found that in that environment where I felt so respected and so appreciated, I just was much more creative. I’d come to work with ideas. He’d either accept them or not. I mean it sounds like any director would be like this, but there’s just something different about Guy. I just think that there’s just no ego, no ego at all in the way he works.”
