Recently, Twisters hit theaters and was a major success. This summer blockbuster is more of a spiritual sequel than anything else, but for many of us, it re-ignited our passion for the original film. We went back to the original Twister and had just one question while the credits rolled: whatever happened to Jami Gertz?
In that movie, she played the fiancée of Bill Paxton’s storm chaser, and Helen Hunt played Paxton’s previous spouse. While most remember this film for Paxton and Hunt (and their chemistry as electric as any lightning storm), Gertz steals almost every scene as a beautiful therapist in over her head and surrounded by natural disasters.
Weirdly enough, Gertz has been off the pop culture radar for the last 20 years. Just what has she been up to? Keep reading to discover what Twister star Jami Gertz has been busy doing!
Her misunderstood marriage story
Jami Gertz is always the first to point out that people get her marriage story backward. She’s married to Tony Ressler, someone who co-owns the Atlanta Hawks and is worth over $11 billion dollars. This has led people to make two mistaken assumptions about Gertz: that she married for money and that she stopped acting simply because her husband is so wealthy.
However, when they fell in love and got married, he actually didn’t make much money and she was a Hollywood star. As she later told The Hollywood Reporter, “I made more money — way more money — than Tony when I met him.” Continuing, she said, “I paid for our first house. I paid for our first vacation. I married him because I fell in love with him.”