Tim Burton Wife, Net Worth, Biography, Divorce, Other Facts

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Making a career outside of his hobby is a dream everyone would like to achieve. Growing up, her hobbies were painting, drawing, and watching movies. Having devoted nearly four decades of his time to filmmaking, Tim Burton is now one of the most successful filmmakers in the film industry.

Biography of Tim Burton

Tim Burton is an American director, writer, artist and producer. He was born on August 25, 1958 to Bill Burton and Jean Burton in Burbank, California, United States. Tim is a graduate of the California Institute of Arts. He began his career at the Walt Disney Studio, where he served as an apprentice animator, setting the tone for an incredible career to come for the multi-talented star. So far, he has distinguished himself in the entertainment industry as a director, producer, writer, poet and stop motion artist. With over forty years of professional experience in the film industry, some of his most successful films are Batman, Batman Returns, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Planets of Apes, Pee-wee’s Great Adventure, Alice in Wonderland .

At the start of his pre-school education in Burbank High School, Tim was considered an average student who was uninterested in the regular curriculum. Instead, he had a passion for painting, drawing, and watching movies. He started making films at a very young age. At 13, he made a movie called The Island of Doctor Agnor, using brutal stop-motion animation. The short is his oldest surviving film.

He enlisted at the California Institute of Arts, where he took a course in character animation. Tim made King and Octopus and Monster Celery Stalk films at the institute.

He made a short film titled Vincent while at Disney which got him a positive response and also won him an award, the film was shown at the Chicago film festival. Up next was his first Hansel and Gretel live-action production. Frankenweenie This is his next short film, made in 1984. It marks his last tenure with Disney. He went on to do The Big Pee Adventure which marked the first collaboration between him and songwriter Danny Elfman. The film became a huge hit and set him up for more blockbuster films like Batman, which became one of the biggest box office hits of all time. In the 1990s he made the movieEdward Scissorhands, a film that by most people was rated his best shot among the rest.

Batman brought him such attention that led to his sequel Batman Returns, which aired in 1992, and it garnered the same positive ratings as the first. The next film in the Batman franchise, Batman Forever was produced in 1994 and was directed by Joel Schumacher. It became a hit, earning over $336 million at the box office.

Other movies he did in the 1990s are: James and the Giant Peach, Sleepy Hollow, Superman Lives, Mars Attacks, Cabin Boy and Ed Wood. Entering the 2000s, he began his next projects, Planets of the Apes and Big Fish. The latter was based on the novel Big Fish. The film was a hit and it received four Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

During his almost forty years of career, he has earned recognition and prestigious awards, such as, Emmy, Golden Globe and more.

Net value

Tim has made a huge amount of money from his four-year film career. His movies earn him around $25 million a year. The multi-award-winning director’s net worth stands at $140 million.

Wife, Divorce

Burton is divorced. He divorced his first wife, German-born artist Lena Gieseke in 1991. The couple were married for about three years between 1989 and 1991. After their divorce, he dated Lisa Marie from 1992 to 2001. She starred in two of Tim’s films, Ed Wood and March Attacks. In 2001, he met actress Helena Bonham Carter while filming Planet of the Apes. The couple had two children together. Their son Billy Raymond was born in 2003 and their daughter Nell was born in 2007. The couple never married, but lived together as a couple for thirteen years before separating in 2014. Tim Burton is currently single, but does his best as a caring father to his children.

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