NeNe Leakes, whose full name is Linnethia Monique Johnson, is an American reality television personality, actor, producer, author, and fashion designer. She is well-known for her appearances on the reality TV shows The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Glee on Fox, where she played the recurrent character Roz Washington. She has also made regular appearances on NBC’s “The New Normal” as a series regular. The gifted actress has performed on stage as well. She has a clothing business and sells her goods on the Home Shopping Network in addition to her performing endeavors. From a young age, she had an interest in a career in show business. Before pursuing an acting career, she attended Morris Brown College and Clarke Central High School. She had previously performed as an exotic dancer. Having achieved great success as an actress and reality TV personality, she aimed further and established the TV production firm NeNe Leakes Entertainment.
TV Profession of NeNe Leakes
A couple sequences in the 2003 film “The Fighting Temptations” featured NeNe Leakes. Nevertheless, the movie’s final cut omitted all of her scenes. Leakes appeared in a small part in an episode of “The Parkers” the following year. She became a member of the main cast of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” in 2008. She gained enormous success from this series. She made 10 appearances on “The Celebrity Apprentice 4,” a reality game show, in 2011. Leakes was chosen to play Roz Washington in the musical drama “Glee” the next year. She also had the chance to appear in the sitcom “The New Normal” as Rocky Rhoades in that same year.
She made an appearance in the 2013 season of the reality television program “I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding,” which followed the specifics of her second marriage to Gregg Leakes. After that, she co-hosted the TV show “Fashion Police.” She competed in the dance competition show “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014; she eventually placed seventh after being ousted in Week 7. Leakes debuted on Broadway in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” that same year, where she portrayed Madame. In 2015, she co-hosted “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly” and made an appearance in “Chicago” at The Ambassador Theatre. The actress was also featured in the “If I Don’t Have You” music video by Tamar Braxton. In 2016, she appeared as a panelist on the game program “To Tell the Truth.” In 2017, Leakes and her spouse participated in a “MasterChef Celebrity Showdown” episode. She appeared in the sports comedy film “Uncle Drew” in a small part in 2018.
Other Projects of NeNe Leakes
NeNe Leakes’ apparel brand, Nene Leakes Collection, debuted on July 28, 2014, for Home Shopping Network (HSN). Leakes started her one-woman comedy tour, “So Nasty, So Rude,” in April 2016. The tour went on until the end of the year and proved to be a success, with numerous sold-out performances.
Personal & Family Life
On December 13, 1967, in Queens, New York City, NeNe Leakes was born in the United States. There are four siblings for her. Her mother reared her three other siblings, while she and her brother grew up at her aunt’s home. Leakes completed his studies at Clarke Central High School in Athens, USA, before spending two years at Morris Brown College in Atlanta.
Regarding her romantic life, she dated Gregg Leakes for a number of years before being married to him in 1997. Her divorce was finalized in September 2011 after she filed for it in 2010. But the couple got back together and got engaged in early 2013—two years after parting ways. On June 22, 2013, they got remarried, and “I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding,” a documentary series, featured footage from their wedding. Leakes and her spouse currently call Duluth, Georgia home. Both Brentt and Bryson are the couple’s sons. Bri’Asia Bryant is their grandchild as well.
NeNe Leakes disclosed that her husband Gregg was suffering from stage 3 colon cancer in November 2018. When the symptoms initially appeared in May, he needed emergency surgery to remove a portion of his colon. The procedure went well.
Net worth of NeNe Leakes
The estimated net worth of NeNe Leakes is about $1 million.