Guy Ritchie's biography
Guy Ritchie is a director known for action films and crime comedies packed with dark humor and intricate plot lines that weave together like puzzle pieces, delivering audiences that satisfying 'aha!' moment when everything clicks into place. The full-length films Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes brought him fame. In the 2000s, the director frequently made tabloid headlines due to his high-profile marriage to pop icon Madonna (2000–2008). Net worth: $150 million.
Childhood and youth
The full name of the director is Guy Stuart Richie. He was born in the English city of Hatfield in September 1968. The boy grew up in a well-off family—which might surprise fans of his gritty films that cultivate his image as a regular bloke from working-class roots.His father John Ritchie, an ex-Marine, ran an advertising company. His mother Amber Parkinson focused on raising Guy and his older sister Tabitha.

Guy's parents divorced when the boy was 5 years old. Soon, Amber married Baronet Michael Leighton, so Guy spent his youth on his stepfather's 17th-century estate until Amber and Michael divorced in 1980.
During his school years, Guy bounced between roughly ten different schools due to his dyslexia. At 15, he was kicked out of Stanbridge Earls School—which specialized in students with learning disabilities—after being caught with drugs, according to Ritchie himself. However, Guy's father claimed his son was actually expelled for chronic truancy and sneaking girls into the boys' dorm.

Film career
In 1993, the young handyman befriended someone who shot music videos and TV commercials. This connection suggested Ritchie work on a few projects, and after collaborating for a couple of years, Guy gained enough directing experience to shoot his first film in 1995 - a 20-minute short called The Hard Case.The short film was warmly received, but it wasn't enough to secure funding for a full-length feature, an idea that had already begun forming in the director's mind based on The Hard Case script.
In 1998, after a long search for sponsors, Guy Ritchie finally approached Trudy Styler, wife of singer Sting. She was impressed by The Hard Case and decided to invest in the young director's full-length film with one condition: Sting was assigned a small role of Jay Dee.

The love story of Guy Ritchie and Madonna
In 2000 Guy Ritchie married Madonna. They met in 1998 when the director, riding high on his first feature's success, showed up at a party hosted by Sting. Madonna, a close friend of the singer's wife, was also there. The director and the pop diva got into a conversation and didn't even notice how the evening passed.Calling it love at first sight would be wrong - both were already adults with plenty of romantic history behind them. But as they kept in touch after that first meeting, both began to feel drawn to each other. When Guy Ritchie invited Madonna and her daughter Lourdes to London, he gave them a personal tour and charmed them both. That's when their passionate romance truly began.





Career after divorce with Madonna
In 2009 the director shot and presented the picture Sherlock Holmes, which gave his career fresh momentum. The new film adaptation of Conan Doyle's stories could boast of Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock and Jude Law as his partner Dr. Watson. The film was a massive hit - it raked in over a billion dollars worldwide, and therefore a sequel quickly followed – the Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was released in 2011.

In 2017 the premiere of the tenth full-length film by Guy Ritchie took place - a pseudo-historical action picture King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Guy Ritchie's personal life
Despite tabloid jokes about Madonna's ex-husbands being cursed in love, Guy proved them wrong. Since 2010 he lives with an English model, Jacqui Ainsley. The couple welcomed son Rafael on September 5, 2011, their daughter Rivka was born in November 2012 and a boy was born in June 2014 named Levi. The director is a great father; he'd rather spend time with his family than attend Hollywood parties.

