Rhonda Byrne

• Born: c. 1955
• Birthplace: Australia
• Best Known As: The creator of the 2006 self-help movie The Secret

Rhonda Byrne's self-help movie The Secret was a best-seller in Australia and America in 2006 and 2007. Released on DVD and the Internet, the film described a supposedly ancient phenomenon called the "Law of Attraction," by which one's thoughts, if properly focused, could influence reality and make desires come true. As Byrnes described it to TV host Oprah Winfrey, "What we do is we attract into our lives the things we want, and that is based on what we're thinking and feeling." Byrne was a television producer in Australia in 2004 when the death of her father led her to begin work on The Secret. The spectacular success of the movie led to a 2006 book by the same name, which in turn became a best-seller. The Associated Press reported in 2007 that the DVD had sold two million copies, and the book over five million copies.

Byrne says The Secret was inspired by the 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles... Her television production company is called Prime Time Productions... The "Law of Attraction" is sometimes described with the catch-phrase "Ask, believe, receive."

Rhonda Byrne (born March 12, 1951) is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret—a book and a film by the same name. By the Spring of 2007 the book had sold almost 4 million copies, and the DVD had sold more than 2 million copies.^[1] She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder.^[2] According to an article published by Australia's Herald Sun,^[3] Byrne has also worked on the Australian TV series World's Greatest Commercials and Marry Me. In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615737_1615871,00.html Time Magazine - The Time 100
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126279/ Rhonda Byrne on IMDB
3. ^ http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21062184-5006022,00.html Herald Sun - Colin Vickery, January 17, 2007

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