Reese Witherspoon

DOB: 1976-03-22

DOD: -

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest women in America with an estimated net worth of $440 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in Cruel Intentions, and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election. She gained wider recognition for playing Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for starring in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005). Following a career downturn, during which her sole box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback by producing and starring as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014), which earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily in television, producing and starring in several female-led literary adaptations under her company Hello Sunshine. These include the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present), and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020). For the first of these, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She has also produced the film adaptations Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and the miniseries adaptation Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). Witherspoon also owns Reese's Book Club and a clothing company, Draper James. She is involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women's causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reese Witherspoon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Starred In

2005
Movie

Walk the Line

2000
Movie

American Psycho

1999
Movie

Cruel Intentions

1996
Movie

Fear

1998
Movie

Pleasantville

2007
Movie

Rendition

1996
Movie

Freeway

2002
Movie

Sweet Home Alabama

1991
Movie

Wildflower

2006
Movie

Penelope

2004
Movie

Vanity Fair

1993
Movie

A Far Off Place

2001
Movie

Legally Blonde

2008
Movie

Four Christmases

2005
Movie

Just Like Heaven

1998
Movie

Twilight

1999
Movie

Election

1998
Movie

Overnight Delivery

2000
Movie

Little Nicky

1994
Movie

S.F.W.

2010
Movie

How Do You Know

2009
Movie

Monsters vs Aliens

1993
Movie

Jack the Bear

1999
Movie

Best Laid Plans

2021
Movie

Come Home

2012
Movie

This Means War

2013
Movie

Mud

2013
Movie

Devil's Knot

2014
Movie

Inherent Vice

2014
Movie

The Good Lie

2014
Movie

Wild

2015
Movie

Hot Pursuit

2023
Movie

June

2014
Movie

9 Kisses

2016
Movie

Sing

2015
Movie

Everything Is Copy

2018
Movie

A Wrinkle in Time

2017
Movie

Home Again

2017
Movie

Gunter Babysits

2021
Movie

Sing 2

2020
Movie

My Darling Vivian

2023
Movie

Your Place or Mine

2020
Movie

Becoming

1989
Tv

The Simpsons

1994
Tv

Friends

1952
Tv

Today

1997
Tv

The View

2002
Tv

American Idol

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1998
Tv

TRL

1997
Tv

The View

2015
Tv

The Muppets

1999
Tv

Rove

2016
Tv

Chelsea

2020
Tv

Fierce Queens

2010
Tv

Conan