Bridget Jones star returns with upcoming visit to Sydney

It’s been almost 10 years since Bridget Jones appeared on the big screen, and now Renée Zellweger will be heading to Sydney to tell everyone about it.

Almost a decade since Bridget Jones last appeared on film, actor Renée Zellweger is bringing the much loved character back to the screen. And the Hollywood star is coming to Australia to tell us all about it.

The two-time Academy Award winner will walk the red carpet at Sydney’s Hoyts EQ on Sunday, February 9, ahead of the cinematic release of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy just a few days later.

Bridget Jones 4: Renée Zellweger in sequel based on Mad About Boy book. Supplied

Co-star’s Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall are also on the way, as is director Michael Morris.

The release comes just in time for fans to celebrate Bridget’s final chapter for Valentine’s Day.

The fictional character was created by British writer Helen Fielding with the first film – Bridget Jones’s Diary – released in 2001.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason came out in 2004 and Bridget Jones’s Baby opened in 2016.

All films have seen big commercial success.

Renee Zellweger arrives at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland in 2020. Pictured: P. Lehman/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

The first look trailer of About The Boy was released in November. In it, Bridget was referred to as a “widow”.

Given that she married human rights lawyer Mark (Colin Firth) and the pair welcomed a child in the previous film, the news came as a crushing blow to some fans who had perhaps not read Fielding’s books.

# UPSIZED FOR PRINT # Bridget Jones Diary, Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.. Picture: SUPPLIED

In Mad About The Boy, Bridget appears to have a new, unexpected love interest: 29-year-old hunk Roxster, played by White Lotus and One Day star, Woodall.

She also has welcomed a second child, presumably with Mark, leaving her as a widowed mother-of-two.