Thora Birch- Wiki, Age, Husband, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Career

Publish date: 2024-05-21

Thora Birch is a producer and actress from the United States. In 1988, she made her feature film debut in Purple People Eater, for which she got a Young Artist Award for “Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age.”

Quick Facts

Date of Birth :March 11, 1982
Age :41 years old
Family Name :Birch
Birth Country :United States
Birth Sign :Pisces
Height :5 Feet 4 Inch
NameThora Birch
Nick NameThora
MotherCarol Connors
FatherJack Birch
Birth Place/CityLos Angeles, California, U.S.
ProfessionActing, Modelling
EthnicityWhite Ethnicity
NationalityAmerican
Net Worth$8 Million USD
Body Measurements36C-25-34 (Bust-Waist-Hip)
Weight in KG57.6 kg

Thora Birch Biography

Thora Birch, the oldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors, grew raised in Los Angeles. Birch is of German-Jewish, Scandinavian, French-Canadian, and Italian origin, and his forebears were German-Jewish, Scandinavian, French-Canadian, and Italian. Thora is named after the Norse deity of thunder and lightning, “Thor,” who would have been her name if she had been a male. Her younger brother is Kian Bolt Birch.

Birch’s parents both worked as adult film performers in Deep Throat. They were reluctant to promote her because of their own experience in the entertainment business, but a babysitter who spotted her copying ads convinced them to show Thora’s photos to agencies. Birch had her first major break at the age of four when her babysitter brought her to a successful audition for a Quaker Oats commercial.

Thora Birch Height, Weight

Thora Birch’s height is 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) and her weight is 57 kg (125 pounds). Thora Birch bra size 34D, measurements 38-26-36 in. Thora Birch wears a size 10 dress and a size 7 shoe (US).

Career

Birch was featured in ads for Burger King, California Raisins, Quaker Oats (together with Wilford Brimley), and Vlasic Pickles in the late 1980s. She made her feature film debut in the science-fiction comedy Purple People Eater in 1988, for which she received a Youth In Film Award and a Young Artist Award in the category of “Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age.” In 1988, she appeared as “Thora” in an episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. and was featured as Molly in the NBC television series Day By Day. The program ran on NBC for two seasons and garnered her two nominations for Young Artist Awards.

Birch starred in the 1990 comedy Parenthood, which was based on the 1989 film of the same name. It aired on NBC for one season before being discontinued. The next year, she co-starred in the drama Paradise with Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, and Elijah Wood. She beat out over 4,000 other young aspirants who auditioned for the job. Roger Ebert said she performed her role with “powerful, straightforward appeal,” and she subsequently received another nomination for a Young Artist Award. For the remainder of the 1990s, Birch maintained solid prominence as a child and adolescent actor by starring in a number of comedy and family feature pictures.

Birch appeared in the indie film 13 Minutes in 2021. Birch made her directing debut in 2022 with The Gabby Petito Story for Lifetime, in which she also co-starred. Birch previously collaborated with Lifetime on two films in which she appeared.

Thora Birch’s Net Worth in 2023

Thora Birch has an $8 million net worth as of December 2023, and has acted in scores of films since she was a toddler. Thora Birch’s net worth is the product of a successful two-decade acting career. Birch received her first part in the short-lived series Day by Bay in the late 1980s. By the 1990s, Birch was in great demand for TV and film roles. She co-starred with Demi Moore and Christine Ricci in All I Want for Christmas (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), and Now and Then (1994). (1995). She came to fame after appearing in American Beauty (1999), for which she received a British Academy Film and Television Arts award nomination.

Thora Birch Husband, Marriage

On December 21, 2018, Birch married talent manager and philanthropist Michael Benton Adler. Birch is a lifelong Democrat who served as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. She has also backed Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and local political campaigns such as North Carolina State Senator Wiley Nickel’s.

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