Austin Chick and Morena Baccarin were once married. Read on further to learn everything about Morena Baccarin’s former husband including his overall net worth.
Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin was born on June 2nd, 1979. She is a Brazilian-American actress best known for portraying the role of Inara Serra in the series, ‘Firefly’ and the follow-up film ‘Serenity.’ She also played the role of Adria in the series, ‘Stargate SG-1’ and also the follow-up film ‘Stargate: The Ark of Truth.’ She then went on to play the role of Anna in the 2009 version of the series ‘V’, Vanessa in the superhero comedy film ‘Deadpool’, and Jessica Brody in the Showtime series ‘Homeland’. She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013 and she currently plays the role of Dr. Leslie Thompkins in the Fox television series ‘Gotham’. Baccarin married American film producer and director Austin Chick in November 2011. She gave birth to their son, Julius, on October 22, 2013 but the marriage did not last long. Chick filed for divorce in July 2015, citing irreconcilable differences and on March 18, 2016 Baccarin and Chick were granted a divorce. Baccarin announced that after her divorce is finalized, she will marry her Gotham co-star, Ben McKenzie, and also added that she was pregnant with their child. The couple have a daughter, Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan who was born on March 2nd, 2016. Baccarin and McKenzie married on June 2, 2017 in Brooklyn.
Her former husband, Austin Chick
Austin Chick was born in 1974. He is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, who made the popular films ‘XX/XY’, released in 2002, and ‘August’, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Chick was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1980 but he was raised in New Hampshire. He attended high school at High Mowing School which was a boarding school in Wilton, NH. He later went on to Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, to study literature and psychology with the aid of grants from the King Foundation. Chick spent numerous years in confusion deciding the fate of his career and he had literally been a wanderer for some time. He eventually found his eay after watching ‘Kings of the Road’. “I wanted to be doing something that was a little bit more, I don’t know, populist? More accessible. I felt like a narrative interested me, and it wasn’t until I saw Kings of the Road that I realized that film was a place that might make sense for me.” revealed Chick in an interview. In 1998, Chick graduated with a degree in cinematography from the SUNY Purchase Film School in Purchase, New York. With regards to his personal life, the screenwriter has been a little unfortunate. Chick married actress Morena Baccarin over Thanksgiving in 2011. Their son Julius was born October 22, 2013, in Glendale, California but once again their marriage did not last long and Chick filed for divorce in 2015, citing irreconcilable differences. His former wife Morena Baccarin was already pregnant with her second child with boyfriend Ben Mckenzie before even their divorce was finalized.
Career path of Austin Chick
Austin Chick’s first big film, which he wrote and directed, which was released in 2002. It was titled ‘XX/XY’, and it starred Mark Ruffalo and Kathleen Robertson. It revolved around the complex relationship between three Sarah Lawrence College students, both during their time at the school and then many years later. He next co-produced Sidney Lumet’s 2007 film, ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’, which featured Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman as two brothers who stage the robbery of their parents’ jewelry shop in an effort to get rich quick, with tragic consequences. He then produced a movie called ‘August’, was released by ContentFilm International in 2008. The plot centered on two brothers, with one of them involved in a struggle to save his internet company on the stock market just before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Chick directed the film and was also executive producer of ‘August’. In 2012, he wrote and directed ‘Girls Against Boys’. The film starred Danielle Panabaker and Nicole LaLiberte. ‘Girls Against Boys’ was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2012.
Net worth
The net worth of Austin Chick is $3 million dollars. The net worth of his ex wife Morena Baccarin is $8 million dollars.
Custody battle
Austin Chick and his former wife Morena Baccarin recently made headlines following an ugly battle over custody of their son. They had clashes over passports, plane trips and play dates and Chick soon launched an ’emergency’ custody battle with ex-wife actress Morena Baccarin over their three-year-old son. According to the law, in a custody case of a minor, a parent can ask the court to issue an emergency ex parte order when they believe there is immediate risk of physical danger or psychological harm to the child. In his appeal, Chick requested changes to a 2015 court-ordered custody agreement over their son Julius. He said that he and Baccarin had established a different routine over the past year-and-a-half, until recently when Baccarin started making things more difficult. Chick stated that Baccarin had been making transitions hard for Julius, and also demanded that he get his son’s passport back. Baccarin’s attorney obviously defended his client calling the move ‘gamesmanship’ to ‘vex and harass’ her client and also requested $3,300 to cover all legal fees. Baccarin currently lives in New York with her fiance and ‘Gotham’ costar Ben McKenzie and their 11-month-old daughter Frances, was give primary physical custody in 2015, though she and Chick share legal custody.
