Reese Witherspoon

Known for ActingBorn 1976-03-22 (age 50)New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Family Recipe Showdown

Revealed with Jules Asner

Teen Choice Awards

Surf Girls

People's Choice Awards

Nature Is Speaking

Friends

The Pasta Queen

Daisy Jones & the Six

Big Little Lies

Friends: The Reunion

Gone Girl

Sing 2

Shine On with Reese

Monsters vs Aliens Stories

The Morning Show

The Simpsons

From Scratch

Where the Crawdads Sing

Fair Play

Come Home

Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)

Little Fires Everywhere

Minions & More 2

The Good Lie

Everything Is Copy

Walk the Line

Rove

American Psycho

Becoming

King of the Hill

My Darling Vivian

Conan

Sing

The Man in the Moon

The Last Thing He Told Me

The Graham Norton Show

Pleasantville

Truth Be Told

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Mud

The Muppets

Wild

Water for Elephants

DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection

Just Like Heaven

Tiny Beautiful Things