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Wife of Mark Burnett,the reality TV mastermind of Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and Shark Tank.The 2011 Sunday Times Rich List valued Downey's net worth at £10m.

Born in Ireland, Roma Downey studied at the London Drama Studio and earned numerous Broadway and off-Broadway stage credits, including a U.S. tour with Dublin's Abbey Players. Though she is most well-known for playing Monica on the CBS dramatic series Touched By an Angel, Downey also played Jackie Kennedy in the 1991 TV miniseries A Woman Named Jackie. She also appeared in several highly sentimental made-for-TV movies like Borrowed Hearts and A Child Is Missing. In 1998, she played Annie Sullivan to Moira Kelly's Helen Keller in Monday After the Miracle. Staying with emotive dramas, she next played Cassie Whitman in the U.K. television movies A Test of Love and A Secret Life. For her next few romantic comedies, she played opposite Tim Matheson in Second Honeymoon and opposite George Newbern in Sons of Mistletoe. Downey finally broke through to a leading role in a feature film with the family comedy Hairy Tale.


Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

1993

Salary

Total estimated earnings from her appearance in the show "Touched by an Angel"; 209 episodes at $100k per episode

$20,900,000