| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | December 5, 1975 (48 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Actor |
| Nationality: | American |
How much is Paula Patton worth?
Paula Patton is an actress and producer who has a net worth of $10 million. Paula Patton is best known for her performances in such films as “Hitch,” “Déjà Vu,” “Precious,” “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” and “Warcraft.” Among her other credits are “Swing Vote,” “Just Wright,” “2 Guns,” “Baggage Claim,” “The Perfect Match,” “Traffik,” and “Four Kids and It.” On television, Patton had a main role on the short-lived ABC drama “Somewhere Between” in 2017.
Career
Paula Patton was born on December 5, 1975 in Los Angeles, California to school teacher Joyce and lawyer Charles. She is of European-American descent on her mother’s side, and of African-American ancestry on her father’s. As a teen, Patton went to Alexander Hamilton High School on the Westside of Los Angeles. After graduating, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where she spent a year before transferring to the University of Southern California’s film school. Following her college graduation, Patton had a three-month assignment making documentaries for PBS.
Personal Life
At the age of 16 in 1991, Patton met 14-year-old singer Robin Thicke at a Los Angeles hip hop club called Balistyx. Thicke asked Patton to dance, and the two began dating a couple years later. In June of 2005, they finally married. Together, they have a son named Julian Fuego who was born in 2010. Later, in early 2014, the couple announced their separation; they filed for joint custody of their son and divorced in March of 2015.
Quotes
“I’ve always wanted to do a romantic comedy.”
— Paula Patton
“As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of ‘making it’ in my opinion.”
— Paula Patton
“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It’s a very difficult business. There aren’t a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.”
— Paula Patton
“Becoming a mother is the best thing that’s happened to me.”
— Paula Patton
“A movie is painting, it’s photography, it’s literature – because you have to have the screenplay – it’s music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it’s a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”
— Paula Patton