What is Mackenzie Foy's Net Worth?
Mackenzie Foy is an actress and model who has a net worth of $2 million. Mackenzie Foy rose to fame playing Renesmee Cullen in the final two installments of the "Twilight Saga" film series in 2011 and 2012, respectively. She has since appeared in such films as "The Conjuring," "Interstellar," "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms," and the 2020 remake of "Black Beauty." Foy has also acted on television, including in the Hallmark Channel movie "Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise."
Early Life and Modeling
Mackenzie Foy was born on November 10, 2000 in Los Angeles, California to a homemaker mother and a truck driver father. When she was only three years old, she began modeling, appearing in ads for Polo Ralph Lauren and Guess. Foy went on to model for such brands as Disney, the Gap, and Mattel. She also practiced taekwondo growing up.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Foy gained widespread recognition in 2011 when she made her film debut in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1," the first half of the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book "Breaking Dawn," the final novel in the "Twilight Saga" series. Foy played Renesmee Cullen, the daughter of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. She reprised her role in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2," which was released in 2012. Both films were enormous commercial hits, and "Part 2" earned Foy a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress.
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Further Film Career
After "Twilight," Foy appeared in James Wan's 2013 supernatural horror film "The Conjuring," playing one of five sisters who move into an allegedly haunted farmhouse with their parents. The same year, she had her first starring role, playing Lou Cardinal in the family film "Wish You Well," adapted from David Baldacci's novel. Foy starred alongside Ellen Burstyn and Josh Lucas in the film, which also, incidentally, saw her character moving to a farmhouse, although not a haunted one. She went on to have a big year in 2014, appearing in four films. In the animated film "Ernest & Celestine," Foy voiced Celestine in the English-language dub, and in the animated film "The Boxcar Children," she voiced Violet. Foy's biggest film of the year was Christopher Nolan's epic science-fiction film "Interstellar," in which she played the young version of Jessica Chastain's character Murph. Matthew McConaughey played her father, Joseph. For her performance, Foy earned a number of awards nominations, and won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.
In 2015, Foy made a return to animation to voice the role of the Little Girl in an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella "The Little Prince." Three years later, she had the lead role in Disney's fantasy adventure film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms." Foy starred as Clara Stahlbaum, a girl who travels into the eponymous magical Four Realms to seek a key to unlock an egg given to her by her late mother. Other cast members include Keira Knightley, Eugenio Derbez, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, and Morgan Freeman. For her next role, Foy starred as Jo Green in Ashley Avis's remake of the family adventure film "Black Beauty," based on the novel by Anna Sewell. Kate Winslet provided the voice of the eponymous horse, with other cast members including Iain Glen, Calam Lynch, Claire Forlani, and Fern Deacon. Originally scheduled for theatrical release, the film was acquired by Disney and released on the streaming service Disney+ in late 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Television Career
Foy had her first television role in 2009 with a brief part on the Fox sitcom "'Til Death." The following year, she appeared in episodes of ABC's "FlashForward" and CBS's "Hawaii Five-0." In early 2012, Foy appeared in the final episode of the second season of the anthology horror series "R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series." Later in the year, she appeared in another episode of the show. Foy's next role on the small screen was in the 2014 television film "The Cookie Mobster." The year after that, she played a troubled teen in the Hallmark Channel movie "Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise," the ninth and final installment in a series of television films based on characters from Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels. Tom Selleck starred as the titular police chief.
