American actor and former figure-skating champion, Nancy Kerrigan has consistently been in the limelight over the years. With an impressive career in figure-skating that has seen her representing the United States of America, Nancy Kerrigan was beautified with so many medals of victories at different occasions. As a rising star, Kerrigan encountered more fame than she ever imagined in an ill-fated form when she was attacked by an assailant who was hired by the ex-husband of her then competitor Tonya Harding.
The attack injured Kerrigan and also led to Harding being banned permanently from competitive figure skating. But to the amazement of the game-lovers, she recovered from the injury and went ahead to claim a silver medal at the 1994 winter Olympics. After the Olympic win, Nancy Kerrigan retired from figure-skating, leveraging more time to go on tours, feature in different TV shows and also in movies. She is a philanthropist supporting the visually-impaired people.
Nancy Kerrigan’s Biography, Age – How Old is She
Daughter of welder Daniel Kerrigan and homemaker Brendan, Nancy Kerrigan was born on the 13th of October 1969 at Stoneham, Massachusetts. She has two elder brothers; Michael and Mark, who played hockey while Nancy took up figure-skating at age 6. With substantial coaching, she went ahead to win the ‘Boston open’ competition at age 9. This made her parents give her the utmost support by enrolling her for more classes on figure-skating even though they could hardly afford it at that time.
With the increased concentration on her skating career, Nancy did well to not slack in her academics. She attended Stoneham High School and Emmanuel College where she majored in Business. Still intent on her skating career, Kerrigan trained under Theresa Martin until she was 16. She also had the good fortune of briefly staying with Denise Morrissey and being coached by Evy and Mary Scotvoid, two famous figure-skating coaches.
Coming fourth place at the junior category of the U.S figure-skating championship in 1987, Nancy Kerrigan continued to make herself relevant in the game of figure-skating. By 1991, she came third at the U.S figure skating championship and at this point, began to gain more relevance in the game. 1992 seemed like a breakthrough year for Nancy Kerrigan as she came second in the U.S figure-skating championship and also picked both bronze and silver medals at the Winter Olympics and world championship respectively.
With an eventual victory in the U.S figure-skating championship in 1993, the cloud got a bit gloomy for Nancy Kerrigan as she was attacked with a police baton in the first month of 1994 by the ex-husband to her fellow competitor Tonya Harding. This left her with injuries and made her withdraw from the U.S championship for that year. However, she had an early recovery that made her partake in the Winter Olympics for that year, 1994. To the amazement of everyone, she won a silver medal after which she hung her skates and resigned from amateur competition.
Since then, Nancy Kerrigan has taken part in a few other professional competitions such as the Ice wars. She got more involved in different skating shows, featured in films such as Blades of Glory (2017), partook in a dance show ‘Dancing with the stars’ as one of its contestants but was eliminated in the seventh week of the competition.
Nancy Kerrigan could be said to be one of the greatest to have ever graced the game of figure-skating over the years and this earned her a place as a member of the United States Figure skating Hall of Fame. She was honored in 2008, at the Ice Theatre of New York.
Husband
A year after her retirement, Nancy Kerrigan tied the knot with her agent, Jerry Solomon who had been married three times with a son from his second wife. They have three children together; Matthew (1996), Brian (2005) and Nicole (2008). While trying to conceive, she suffered six miscarriages but eventually had treatments that saw her conceive all three children. She happily lives with her family at Lynnfield, Massachusetts.
Nancy Kerrigan’s Net Worth
The astute skater, actress cum philanthropist has recorded some incredible contracts as an athlete with companies like Reebok, Evian, and Seiko. Though her career in figure skating was short-lived career, she is recorded to have penned down contracts to the sum of over $11million dollars in her years of skating. Reliable media sources have pegged her net worth at around $8 million which seems fitting for her status.