
Reese Witherspoon
23 FOLLOWERS • 91 CREDITS • MAR 22, 1976 • 49
Biography
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.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Oscars

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Saturday Night Live

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Today

Friends

The Simpsons

Teen Choice Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Entertainment Tonight

Chelsea

King of the Hill

The Mindy Project

People's Choice Awards

The Muppets

American Idol

Revealed with Jules Asner

Get Organized with The Home Edit

My Kind of Country

Friends: The Reunion

Becoming

Return to Lonesome Dove

American Psycho

The Man in the Moon

Twilight

A Wrinkle in Time

Cruel Intentions

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Walk the Line

Election

Big Little Lies

Mud

Fear

Little Fires Everywhere

The Morning Show

Four Christmases

Sing

Sing 2

Pleasantville

Wild

Your Place or Mine

This Means War

A Far Off Place

Sweet Home Alabama

Home Again

How Do You Know

Monsters vs Aliens

Vanity Fair

Tracy Flick Can't Win

Just Like Heaven

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Hot Pursuit

Minions & More Volume 2

You're Cordially Invited

All Stars
Production Credits

Hot Pursuit

Tracy Flick Can't Win

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Morning Show

Elle

All Stars

Four Christmases

Your Place or Mine

The Last Thing He Told Me

Surf Girls Hawai'i

You're Cordially Invited

Truth Be Told

Love in Fairhope

Something from Tiffany's

From Scratch

My Kind of Country

Little Fires Everywhere

The Pasta Queen

Gone Girl

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Wild

Daisy Jones & the Six

Surface

Lucky

Tiny Beautiful Things

Sing 2

Legally Blondes

Get Organized with The Home Edit

Big Little Lies

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