Renny Harlin

Q: Has Renny Harlin won any major awards?

While Renny Harlin has not won an Academy Award, he has received several nominations and won awards such as the Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival.

Q: What was Renny Harlin's first film?

Renny Harlin's first feature film was 'Born American,' released in 1986. This film marked his entry into the international film scene.

Q: What is Renny Harlin's estimated net worth?

Renny Harlin's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his successful career as a director and producer in Hollywood.

Q: What are some of Renny Harlin's career highlights?

Career highlights for Renny Harlin include directing major blockbusters like 'Die Hard 2' and 'Cliffhanger,' which solidified his status as a leading action director.

Q: Is Renny Harlin involved in any recent projects?

Yes, Renny Harlin directed 'The Narrow Bridge,' released in 2022, showcasing his continued presence in the film industry.

Q: What is Renny Harlin's directing style known for?

Renny Harlin's directing style is known for its high-octane action sequences, strong visual effects, and gripping storytelling that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.

Q: Who are Renny Harlin's parents?

Renny Harlin's parents are Heikki Harlin and Marjatta Harlin, who supported his artistic pursuits from a young age, influencing his career in filmmaking.

Known for

Die Hard 2 (1990)

IMDb 7.1 / 10

1990 / Action, Thriller / 124 min

Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize...

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

IMDb 5.9 / 10

1999 / Action, Adventure / 105 min

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an...

Cliffhanger (1993)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

1993 / Action, Adventure / 113 min

A sheriff's shootout turns into an adventure through the wondrous world of film.

Name

Renny Harlin

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

15 March 1962, Riihimäki, Finland

Spouses

Georgina Cates (2002–2012)

Children

1, daughter named Kayley

Parents

Heikki Harlin, Marjatta Harlin

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2021	Movie The Dinosaur Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Legend of Hercules In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow...	Officer Linus (uncredited)	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2013	Movie Hard Time: The Making of Prison Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror film Prison (1987)	Himself	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2012	Movie Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series.	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2010	Movie Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	Movie Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2001	Movie Driven Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's...	Replacement Driver	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1998	Movie Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.	Renny Harlin	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1995	Movie A Night to Die For TV special featuring interviews with Wayne Newton, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Ditka, and Ice-T. Aired on...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story Freddy Krueger hosts a retrospective special/making-of "Freddy's Dead."	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1990	Movie Raptori Moe! The rap group from Hyvinkää performs its hugely popular songs.	Unknown character	Not rated
1989	Movie The Making of 'Nightmare on Elm Street IV' Witness the behind-the-scenes techniques and gruesome special effects that dominate this box office hit! See through the mysteries of the...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a...	Student (uncredited)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1986	Movie Born American A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a...	Man's Voice from Ship's Loudspeakers (uncredited) (voice)	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1981	Movie The Breakthrough Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal...	Police officer (uncredited)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Kohtauspaikka 33 A documentary following youths of Helsinki and their habits of spending all their money on expensive clothes.	Self (voice)	Not rated
TBA	Movie Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger The making of action thriller "Cliffhanger" is hosted by leading star Sylvester Stallone. He presents some of the shoot's most...	Self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	Movie Deep Water A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to make an emergency landing...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2026	Movie The Strangers: Chapter 3 Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2026	Movie The Strangers Maya drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2025	Movie The Strangers: Chapter 2 After learning that one of their victims, Maya, is still alive, The Strangers return to finish the job. With nowhere...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2024	Movie The Strangers: Chapter 1 After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	Movie The Bricklayer Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2023	Movie Refuge Sergeant Rick Pedroni comes home to his wife Kate changed and dangerous after suffering an attack by a mysterious force...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2023	Movie Refuge Sergeant Rick Pedroni comes home to his wife Kate changed and dangerous after suffering an attack by a mysterious force...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2021	Movie Reunion 3: Singles Cruise The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2021	Movie Reunion 3: Singles Cruise The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2021	Movie The Misfits After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2019	Movie Bodies at Rest Working in the morgue, a hardworking forensics expert and his assistant are suddenly accosted by masked intruders who demand access...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2018	Movie Legend of the Ancient Sword Due to a fateful occurrence, Yue Wuyi leaves home. He meets revered master Xie Yi, who imparts to him the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2016	Movie Skiptrace A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Legend of Hercules In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Legend of Hercules In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Legend of Hercules In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow...	Producer Production	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2013	TV Graceland In Southern California, a beachfront property was seized and turned into a residence for undercover cops. They are all top...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2013	Movie The Dyatlov Pass Incident In February of 1959, nine Russian hikers ventured into a remote area of the Ural Mountains. Two weeks later, all...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie The Dyatlov Pass Incident In February of 1959, nine Russian hikers ventured into a remote area of the Ural Mountains. Two weeks later, all...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	Movie 5 Days of War An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	Movie 5 Days of War An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	Movie The Resident Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	TV Covert Affairs A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	TV White Collar In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2009	Movie 12 Rounds When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2007	Movie Cleaner Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2007	TV Burn Notice A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Covenant Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie Exorcist: The Beginning Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2004	Movie Mindhunters Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	Movie Mindhunters Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2001	Movie Driven Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2001	Movie Driven Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1999	Movie Deep Blue Sea Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Blast from the Past Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Mistrial When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	Movie The Long Kiss Goodnight Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Long Kiss Goodnight Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	Movie Cutthroat Island Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map....	Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1995	Movie Cutthroat Island Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map....	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1994	Movie Speechless In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1994	Movie The Foot Shooting Party The lead singer of a band gets drafted for war in Vietnam. So as not to break up the band,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1993	Movie Cliffhanger A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	Movie Cliffhanger A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	TV Gladiaattorit A Finnish reality competition that matches amateur athletes against each other and the show's own "gladiators" in contests of strength,...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie Rambling Rose In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1990	Movie The Adventures of Ford Fairlane To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie Die Hard 2 One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1988	Movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1987	Movie Prison After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1986	Movie Born American A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a...	Stunt Double Crew	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1986	Movie Born American A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1986	Movie Born American A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1981	Movie Kohtauspaikka 33 A documentary following youths of Helsinki and their habits of spending all their money on expensive clothes.	Director Directing	Not rated
1981	Movie Kohtauspaikka 33 A documentary following youths of Helsinki and their habits of spending all their money on expensive clothes.	Producer Production	Not rated
1980	Movie Custody An alcoholic man is forced to come to grips with a society when he's taken into custody.	Writer Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1980	Movie Custody An alcoholic man is forced to come to grips with a society when he's taken into custody.	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Black Tides Rebecca reunites with her estranged father, Bill, in sunny Málaga expecting a healing family trip with her young son, Sebastian....	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Beast When a militia of unidentified hostiles coordinates a coup against the United States, the president must fight back by utilizing...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Trial by Combat In a near future where 'judicial combat' has become accepted practice and legal trials are settled by gladiatorial combat between...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Inspector Palmu Inspector Palmu gets to solve a new case, when a wealthy real estate millionaire connected to Germany is murdered in...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Inspector Palmu Inspector Palmu gets to solve a new case, when a wealthy real estate millionaire connected to Germany is murdered in...	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Carrier When a mysterious phenomenon leads to mass chaos, a splintering family escapes to a small island…but their troubles are only...	Producer Production	Not rated

Deep Water

2026 / TMDB 6.4

The Dinosaur

2021 / TMDB 5.8

The Legend of Hercules

2014 / TMDB 4.8

Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger

2012 / TMDB 5.5

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010 / TMDB 7.8

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

2003 / TMDB 7.8

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What is Renny Harlin's estimated net worth?

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