Like many other celebrities out there, Betty Thomas likes to keep her private life to herself. She does not reveal much about her personal life to anyone.
Betty Thomas is currently married to Douglas Thomas.
She has not disclosed about her relation to Douglas except for the fact that she is married to him. Even the sources around the web does not have much information about her. Lack of information may have caused various rumors of her getting divorced but she has not commented on it. It seems that she is happy with her husband and rumors are just there for talks. Any of her previous relationship history prior to marrying Douglas has not been unveiled anywhere so there are lot of assumption on the internet.
Starting her career with minor roles in low-budget movies, Betty Thomas has come a long way to become such a successful starts. Initially, she had built her career acting in comedy roles but when she was casted in the 80s TV series Hill Street Blues, it lifted her career to a new height. Her performance were praised my many. For her exceptional performance she even got nominated at Emmy for Best supporting actress and even managed to win it. Her role of Velda Plendor has been greatly praised by critics and viewers alike.
Betty has been active in the acting world since 1976. Throughout her acting career she has given many remarkable performances and she is now the winner of two Primetimes Emmys along with several other awards and nominations. The fact that she has been nominated a total of ten times for an Emmy might be the indication of her remarkable performance. Betty has a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University. Some of her acting credit includes movies like Troop Beaverly Hills (1989), Prison for Children (1987), etc
She started her career as director in late 80s with the TV shows like Hooperman and Doogie Howser M.D. Since then she as directed over two dozen movies and TV series. Her most successful movie that she directed is Dr. Dolittle (1998) starring Eddie Murphy who is portrays a role of vet who has the power to talk to the animals. The success of this movies made it span 4 sequels. She has also worked as producer in movies like Charlie’s Angels (2000) and 2002 comedy movie I Spy starring Eddie Murphy. She is a versatile person with talent on vast number of field.
Once in an interview, Betty had state- “I never wanted to be an actor,” she once said. “[During Hill Street] I was always saying, ‘When do I get to direct?’”, which shows her passion towards directing rather than acting.
Like most of Amy’s personal records, her net worth has also not yet been revealed yet but is estimate to be in millions of dollar.