Reese Witherspoon
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1976-03-22
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Reese Witherspoon
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reese Witherspoon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Walk the Line
Sep 13, 2005
American Psycho
Apr 13, 2000
Cruel Intentions
Mar 05, 1999
Fear
Apr 12, 1996
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Jul 02, 2003
Pleasantville
Sep 17, 1998
Rendition
Sep 07, 2007
Freeway
Aug 23, 1996
Sweet Home Alabama
Sep 26, 2002
Wildflower
Dec 03, 1991
Penelope
Mar 01, 2006
Vanity Fair
Sep 01, 2004
A Far Off Place
Mar 12, 1993
Legally Blonde
Jul 13, 2001
Four Christmases
Nov 26, 2008
Just Like Heaven
Sep 16, 2005
Twilight
Mar 06, 1998
The Importance of Being Earnest
May 17, 2002
Election
Apr 23, 1999
Overnight Delivery
Apr 07, 1998
Little Nicky
Nov 10, 2000
S.F.W.
Sep 15, 1994
How Do You Know
Dec 17, 2010
Monsters vs Aliens
Mar 19, 2009
Jack the Bear
Apr 02, 1993
The Man in the Moon
Sep 30, 1991
Best Laid Plans
Apr 09, 1999
Come Home
Nov 25, 2021
The Trumpet of the Swan
May 11, 2001
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Apr 01, 2009
Being Mary Tyler Moore
Mar 13, 2023
Water for Elephants
Apr 15, 2011
This Means War
Feb 14, 2012
Mud
Apr 26, 2013
Devil's Knot
May 09, 2013
Inherent Vice
Dec 12, 2014
The Good Lie
Sep 10, 2014
Wild
Dec 05, 2014
You're Cordially Invited
Jan 29, 2025
Hot Pursuit
May 08, 2015
Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line
May 22, 2006
June
Nov 12, 2023
Minions & More Volume 2
Nov 08, 2022
9 Kisses
Dec 11, 2014
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Oct 05, 1992
Sing
Nov 23, 2016
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
Sep 25, 2020
Everything Is Copy
Sep 29, 2015
A Wrinkle in Time
Mar 08, 2018
Home Again
Sep 07, 2017
Gunter Babysits
Jan 27, 2017
Monsters vs Aliens Stories
Jan 01, 2013
This Changes Everything
Jun 28, 2019
Sing 2
Dec 01, 2021
My Darling Vivian
Apr 27, 2020
Your Place or Mine
Feb 10, 2023
Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music
Jun 10, 2020
Becoming
May 06, 2020
Dreamworks Spooky Stories
Aug 01, 2012
Election - Reese Witherspoon
Dec 12, 2017
Friends: The Reunion
May 27, 2021
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Friends
Sep 22, 1994
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Today
Jan 14, 1952
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
American Idol
Jun 11, 2002
Return to Lonesome Dove
Nov 14, 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Revealed with Jules Asner
Dec 01, 2001
Freedom: A History of Us
Sep 24, 2003
Freedom: A History of Us
Sep 24, 2003
Freedom: A History of Us
Sep 24, 2003
The Mindy Project
Sep 25, 2012
Tiny Trailblazers
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
TRL
Sep 14, 1998
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Drew Barrymore Show
Sep 14, 2020
The Muppets
Sep 22, 2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Big Little Lies
Feb 19, 2017
Rove
Sep 22, 1999
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Chelsea
May 11, 2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
My Kind of Country
Mar 23, 2023
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Shine On with Reese
Jul 17, 2018
Teen Choice Awards
Aug 01, 1999
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
People's Choice Awards
Mar 04, 1975
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Little Fires Everywhere
Mar 18, 2020
The Morning Show
Nov 01, 2019
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
Nature Is Speaking
Aug 12, 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Fierce Queens
Apr 06, 2020
Get Organized with The Home Edit
Sep 09, 2020
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Apr 02, 1973
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Family Recipe Showdown
Jul 17, 2025
