Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne is the creator and Executive Producer of the film The Secret, and Author of the books The Secret, The Power, The Magic, and Hero.

Before The Secret
Rhonda was born in Australia and began her career as a radio producer before moving into television production. Later in life, it is known that she worked as an executive producer for Australian television. Some of her credits include Oz Encounters: UFO's in Australia (1997), Sensing Murder: Easy Street (2003), Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2003), and one episode of Sensing Murder(2004).

Birth of The Secret
After the passing of her father Ronald in 2004, Byrne became very depressed. At the instigation of her daughter Hailey, Rhonda read The Science of Getting Rich (1911) by Wallace D. Wattles. She discovered positive thinking, the laws of attraction, and many rules that helped her fight her depression, and find further success in life. Hence, she started doing research on the subject and the project of The Secret was born. In 2006 her work took a very different direction when she released The Secret film, viewed by millions across the planet. She followed with The Secret book, a worldwide bestseller available in 50 languages with over 20 million copies in print.

Since its release in November 2006, The Secret book has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 190 weeks and was named by USA Today as one of the top 20-bestselling books of the past 15 years. On January 2007, Rhonda appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show with four teachers from The Secret film. In May of 2007, Rhonda Byrne was recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in TIME magazine’s “The TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World”, and shortly afterwards appeared in Forbes’ “The Celebrity 100” list.

In 2010, Rhonda continued her work with the book The Power, the second book in The Secret Book Series, which immediately became another New York Times bestseller. The Power is now available in 43 languages. The third book in The Secret Book Series, The Magic, was released in 2012, and her latest book, Hero, the fourth in The Secret Book Series, was released in 2013. Also released in 2013 was The Secret Daily Teachings in a brand new hardcover book edition. Since the very first publication of The Secret a decade ago Byrne has released her another best seller book How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People, Real Stories.

Rhonda's latest project is a Hollywood movie adaptation of The Secret book and documentary film. Katie Holmes will star in The Secret, based on the best-selling book by Rhonda Byrne. The film, to be directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch, Sweet Home Alabama).