Ellen Heidingsfelder is an American attorney who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although she has her own identity she is basically known as the wife of a television personality Cooper Manning.
Cooper Manning is a famous television personality on the American channel Fox Sports. He is also a former football player who played as a quarterback.
Most people are well aware of her famous husband but do people know about her? In this article, we are going to disclose her birthday, age, marriage to Cooper Manning, her education, and many more.
How old is Ellen Heidingsfelder? Details on her Parents and Early life
Ellen Heidingsfelder was born on December 20, 1968, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. As of today, she is 53 years of age. She was born to Charles Heidingsfelder and Dot Heidingsfelder.
Ellen belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity and her birth sign is Sagittarius.
Heidingsfelder was an intelligent child from the beginning and always wanted to be successful in the future. As a result, she chose to be an attorney and strived for it. As mentioned earlier, Ellen studied hard and planned to attend university after high school.
Subsequently, Ellen enrolled in the University of Virginia for a bachelor’s degree in arts in 1991. After studying for four years she received her bachelor’s degree.
Upon getting her degree Ellen pursued to obtain a law degree. Therefore she went to Loyola University in 1994.
Ellen Heidingsfelder is an attorney
As mentioned earlier, Ellen attended law school to be an attorney. Initially, she started her career working at the United States district court in the eastern, middle, and western districts of Louisiana.
Ellen still continues to practice law as an attorney.
Ellen Heidingsfelder’s husband Cooper Manning comes from a Football family
Cooper Manning was born as Copper Archibald Manning on March 6, 1974, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He is a television personality and an entrepreneur.
Manning was born to a footballing family as the eldest child and his father Archie Manning was a professional football player who played as a quarterback. His brother Peyton Manning and Eli Manning also played professional football as quarterbacks.
One summer before the start of summer manning felt numbness in his toes and fingers. He then decided to go for a check-up and went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
He was diagnosed with Spinal stenosis which is a rare condition in which the spine is narrowed and nerves are pinched. Therefore, Manning followed the advice of the doctors and quickly ended his footballing career.
Cooper became an entrepreneur and television host
After leaving professional football he partnered in an energy investment boutique named Scotia Howard Weil.
Consecutively, Manning started to host his own show called ‘Manning on the Street’ during Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.

In addition, he also became a partner at private real state company AJ Capital Partners in 2016 as a principal and senior managing director.
At present, Manning hosts the television show The Manning Hour for the sports channel Fox Sports. Apart from being a television host, he is also the principal and senior managing director for AJ Capital Partners in the investor relations department.

The television host got hitched to his love Ellen Heidingsfelder in 1999. Both grew up in New Orleans and were in a relationship for a couple of years before getting married.
Ellen convinced Cooper to convert to Catholicism in order to marry
The celebrity spouse’s parents were strong members of the Catholic church. Her parents followed the religion wholeheartedly. Thus, they wanted to have a catholic son-in-law.
Hence, Ellen convinced cooper to convert to Catholicism if he wanted to marry her. Fortunately, Cooper agreed to convert to Catholicism and married his love-life Ellen. Now the couple is happy in their marriage and is a devoted Catholic.
The couple shares 3 children
The couple shares 3 children together. They gave birth to their oldest and only daughter May Manning in 2002. Currently, May is a freshman at the University of Virginia. It is also the university where her mother studied bachelor’s degree. Previously she played volleyball at the Academy of the Sacred Hearts where she won the Louisiana state volleyball championship in 2020.
The partner also shares two boys. Arch manning is the middle child whereas Heid Manning is the youngest of all. Arch Manning was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 19, 2005. He enrolled at Isidore Newman School located in his hometown of New Orleans. Arch plays football as a quarterback in the aforementioned school like his uncle Peyton Manning and Eli Manning did years ago.
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In addition, Arch was also ranked the number one pro-style quarterback in the batch of 2023 by 247Sports.
Likewise, Heid Manning was born in Drew, Mississippi, the United States on April 20, 2006, and also plays football for the same team as his brother Arch. He started to play in 2021.
Ellen Heidingsfelder’ Net Worth
Ellen has been quite successful in her lawyer career. She has a net worth of around $ 1 million. She accumulated her fortune being independent of her husband who happens to earn a massive amount of money himself.
Likewise, Cooper has a net worth of around $15 million. He earned this fortune from his partnership in different companies as well as from his television engagement.