Reese Witherspoon

Born: March 22, 1976 (50 years)

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.

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Movies as Actor (64)

Reese Witherspoon

You're Cordially Invited

June

Being Mary Tyler Moore

Your Place or Mine

Minions & More 2

Sing 2

Come Home

Friends: The Reunion

Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music

Becoming

My Darling Vivian

This Changes Everything

A Wrinkle in Time

Election - Reese Witherspoon

Home Again

Gunter Babysits

Sing

Everything Is Copy

Hot Pursuit

Inherent Vice

Wild

The Good Lie

9 Kisses

Devil's Knot

Mud

Monsters vs Aliens Stories

Dreamworks Spooky Stories

This Means War

Water for Elephants

How Do You Know

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Monsters vs Aliens

Four Christmases

Penelope

Rendition

Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line

Just Like Heaven

Walk the Line

I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash

Vanity Fair

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Sweet Home Alabama

The Importance of Being Earnest

Legally Blonde

The Trumpet of the Swan

Adam Sandler Goes to Hell

Little Nicky

American Psycho

Election

Best Laid Plans

Cruel Intentions

Pleasantville

Overnight Delivery

Twilight

Freeway

Fear

S.F.W.

Jack the Bear

A Far Off Place

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

Wildflower

The Man in the Moon

Wish List

Family Recipe Showdown

F1: The Academy

My Kind of Country

The Drew Barrymore Show

Get Organized with The Home Edit

Fierce Queens

Little Fires Everywhere

The Morning Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Shine On with Reese

Big Little Lies

Chelsea

The Muppets

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Nature Is Speaking