12-02-2025
What is Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding's net worth? All you need to know
Helen Fielding is well-known as the author of the Bridget Jones novels, which have been adapted into the popular film series.
A fourth film called Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, adapted from Fielding's 2013 novel, is set to be released in UK cinemas on Thursday, February 13.
It will see Renée Zellweger return to play the title character with other cast members including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher and Hugh Grant.
All of Fielding's Bridget Jones novels have sold well but what is her net worth?
"I think we need to get rid of cougar and toyboy." Ahead of the release of the latest Bridget Jones film, writer Helen Fielding talks about the negative connotations of older women dating younger men.#BBCWato
— The World at One (@BBCWorldatOne) February 6, 2025
According to a 2020 article from The Express Fielding had amassed a net worth of £6mill while an article from EL PAÍS English in 2023 said she had a net worth of more than $7.5million (just over £6million).
Helen Fielding was born on February 19, 1958, in the town of Morley in West Yorkshire.
She read English at St Anne's College, Oxford and then began work at the BBC in 1979 as a regional researcher on the news magazine Nationwide.
Fielding progressed to working as a production manager and director on various entertainment shows.
She also produced and directed a live satellite broadcast from a refugee camp in Eastern Sudan for the launch of Comic Relief.
The creator of our Bridget... Author, Helen Fielding is here!#BridgetJonesMovie
— Universal Pictures UK (@universaluk) January 29, 2025
During the 1990s she worked as a journalist and columnist on several national newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph.
Her first novel was released in 1994, called Cause Celeb, which was well-received but had limited sales.
She was struggling to make ends meet while working on her second novel when she was approached by The Independent to write a column herself about single life in London.
Fielding rejected this idea but offered instead to create an imaginary, exaggerated, ironic comic character.
Writing anonymously, she felt able to be honest about the preoccupations of single women in their thirties.
The column quickly acquired a following, her identity was revealed and her publishers asked her to write a novel about the character she had created.
The paperback of Bridget Jones's Diary was published in 1997 and became a worldwide bestseller.
Fielding published a second Bridget novel The Edge of Reason in November 1999, before a film adaptation of the first book was released in 2001.
The Edge of Reason was then adapted into a film in 2004 with Fielding contributing to the further adventures of Bridget Jones for The Independent in 2005.
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Fielding carried on Bridget's story in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy in 2013 and Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries in 2016.
Bridget Jones's Baby was released as a film in 2016 with the upcoming fourth film in the series to be released in 2025.
Fielding has co-written all of the screenplays for the films alongside writers such as Richard Curtis and Abi Morgan.
