Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born protest 22, 1976), professionally famous as Reese Witherspoon, is an American performer and film producer and television producer. Witherspoon landed her basic element role as the female prime in the film The operate in the Moon in 1991; soon with the aim of time she made her television acting first appearance, in the cable film Wildflower. Clothed in 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway and followed with the aim of manifestation with roles in three major 1998 films: Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight. The following time, Witherspoon appeared in the critically acclaimed Election, which earned her a Golden Globe proposal.
2001 distinct her career's spiraling central theme with the breakout role as Elle wood in the box company destroy Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in sweet-tempered Home Alabama, which became her biggest advertisement film achievement to engagement. 2003 maxim her return as prime performer and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2: Red, ashen & Blonde. Clothed in 2005, Witherspoon traditional worldwide attention and praise in place of her portrayal of June delivery service coins in Walk the Line, which earned her an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award in place of Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Witherspoon married actor and Cruel Intentions co star Ryan Phillippe in 1999; they maintain two children, Ava and Deacon. The combine separated by the side of the last part of 2006 and split in October 2007. Witherspoon married her flash companion, talent agent Jim Toth, in 2011. Witherspoon owns a production company, Type A Films, and she is actively 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. On December 1, 2010, Witherspoon traditional a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Acting career
Early toil (1990–1998)
Clothed in 1990, Witherspoon attended an release casting call in place of The operate in the Moon with selected contacts, intending to test as a crumb player. She was as a substitute cast in the prime role of Dani Trant, a 14 time old terrain girl who spray in love in place of the basic schedule with her 17 time old national. Her performance was regarded as hauntingly heartrending by Variety magazine, and critic Roger Ebert commented, Her basic kiss is single of the nearly everyone textbook little scenes I've continually seen in a film. For this role, Witherspoon was nominated in place of the Young Artist Award Best Young Actress. Later with the aim of time, she made her television acting first appearance in the cable film Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton and starring Patricia Arquette. Clothed in 1992, Witherspoon appeared in the television film Desperate Choices: To Save My Child, portraying a critically poorly adolescent girl. Clothed in 1993, she played a adolescent wife in the CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and got a starring role as the leading character Nonnie Parker, a South African girl who ought to annoy 1,250 miles (2,000 km) of the Kalahari, in the youngster aimed Disney film A Far Off Place. Clothed in the same time, Witherspoon had a minor role in Jack the Bear, which garnered her the Young Artist Award in place of Best Youth Actress Co star. The following time, Witherspoon acted in an extra leading role as Wendy Pfister in the 1994 film S.F.W., directed by Jefery tax.
Clothed in 1996, Witherspoon was to be had parts in two major movies. She appeared in the spy story Fear alongside indication Wahlberg (whom she dated) and Alyssa Milano, in performance the role of Nicole Walker, a teenage girl with a beautiful boyfriend who turns barred to be a violent psychopath. She was besides the leading performer in the spy story and black comedy Freeway, starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland and Brooke Shields. Her character, Vanessa Lutz, is a poor girl living in Los Angeles, who, on the way to her grandmother's mother country in Stockton, encounters a freeway consecutive killer. The film traditional helpful reviews from the press. Among them was the San Francisco Chronicle, with Mick LaSalle commenting, Witherspoon, who does a shrill Texas accent, is dazzling, utterly believable in single extreme position similar to the other. Witherspoon's performance won her the Best Actress Award by the side of the Cognac Police Film Festival and steadfastly established her as a rising star. The making of the film besides gave Witherspoon large acting experience; as she thought, Once I overcame the hurdle of with the aim of film which scared me to death I felt like I may well try no matter which. Following completion of Freeway in 1997, Witherspoon took a break from acting in major movies in place of a time and began dating actor Ryan Phillippe. She returned to the screen in 1998 with major roles in three movies, Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight. Clothed in Pleasantville, Witherspoon starred alongside Tobey Maguire in a tale not far off from a team up of 1990s teenage siblings who are magically transported into the setting of a 1950s television cycle. She portrayed the sister Jennifer, who is principally concerned not far off from appearances, relationships and popularity. Witherspoon's performance traditional high-quality reviews and garnered her the Young Hollywood Award in place of Best Female Breakthrough Performance. Director Gary Ross thought he steadfastly held Witherspoon was going away to be an outstanding film star.
Early essential achievement (1999–2000)
Clothed in 1999, Witherspoon starred alongside Alessandro Nivola in the drama spy story Best Laid Plans; she played Lissa, a woman who schemes with her lover scratch to break out a small, numb last part town. clothed in this same time, she co starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the drama film Cruel Intentions, a contemporary take on the 18th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Her performance as Annette Hargrove was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle: Witherspoon is especially high-quality in the smallest amount flash role, and even whilst called leading to kind a cycle of cute devilish faces, she pulls it inedible. Coincidentally, she appeared in a harmony capture on tape by Marcy Playground in place of the film's soundtrack. Clothed in the same time, Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick starred in the film adaptation of the 1998 novel Election by Tom Perrotta. She portrayed Tracy Flick, a competitive and ambitious on hard worker who runs in place of learner body president. She traditional vast essential commend in place of her performance and won the Best Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society, a basic Golden Globe proposal and an Independent Spirit Award proposal. Witherspoon besides traditional a rank on the file of 100 Greatest Film Performances of All Time by Premiere. Academy Award winning director Alexander Payne praised her: She's got with the aim of quality with the aim of men unearth smart, while women would like to be her acquaintance. But that's immediately the foundation. Nobody to boot is as funny or brings such charm to things. She can resolve no matter which. Clothed in ill will of her profitable performance, Witherspoon famous in an interview with the aim of she struggled to unearth toil similar to completing the film, due to typecasting. When analyzing the reasons behind her inconvenience to unearth toil, Witherspoon commented I think for the reason that the character I played was so extreme and sort of shrewish citizens thinking with the aim of was who I was, considerably than me going away in and creating a part. I would test in place of things and I'd every time be the flash high-quality studios in no way wanted to hire me and I wasn't down the parts to great big box company actresses but to ones who I conjecture citizens felt differently not far off from. Clothed in 2000, Witherspoon traditional a underneath role in American Psycho and made a cameo role manifestation in tiny Nicky. She besides appeared as a guest star in season six of Friends, in performance the role of Jill Green, Rachel Green's sister. The subsequently time, Witherspoon provided the voice of Serena in the animated film The Trumpet of the Swan, produced by Crest Animation Productions.
Worldwide recognition (2001–2004)
2001 distinct a large spiraling central theme in Witherspoon's career, whilst she starred in the element film Legally Blonde. She portrayed Elle wood, a form merchandising major who decides to happen to a law learner in order to be an enthusiast of her previous boyfriend to Harvard Law School. Speaking not far off from Woods' character, Witherspoon thought When I read Legally Blonde, I was like, 'She's from Beverly Hills, she's rich, she's in a union. She has a lofty boyfriend. Oh yeah, she gets dumped. Who cares? I still hate her.' So we had to kind really she was the kind of person you immediately can't hate. Legally Blonde was a box company destroy, grossing US$96 million nationally. Witherspoon's performance earned her praise from critics, as the press began referring to her as the another Meg Ryan. Roger Ebert commented, Witherspoon effortlessly animated this material with sunshine and quick wit, and Salon.Com famous with the aim of she (Witherspoon) delineates Elle's character beautifully. Meanwhile, the Seattle Post Intelligencer concluded, Witherspoon is a talented stand-up who can extra up a commotion immediately by marching in rotund of activeness and drive and she powers this modest little comedy almost single handedly. For her toil, Witherspoon garnered her flash Golden Globe Best Actress proposal and an MTV Movie Award in place of Best Comedic Performance.
Following the achievement of Legally Blonde, Witherspoon starred in several roles. Clothed in 2002, Witherspoon provided the voice of the animated character Greta Wolfcastle in The Simpsons episode The Bart Wants What It Wants. Clothed in the same time, she portrayed Cecily in the comedy The Importance of Being intense, a film adaptation of the theatrical production by Oscar Wilde; she traditional a Teen Choice Award proposal in place of her performance. Her subsequently element film in 2002 was sweet-tempered Home Alabama, a film directed by Andy Tennant. Alongside Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey, Witherspoon played Melanie Carmichael, a adolescent form designer who intends to marry a New York politician but ought to return to Alabama to divorce her childhood sweetheart, from whom she has been separated in place of seven years. Witherspoon regarded this as a individual role in with the aim of the role reminded her of experiences she had whilst she enthused from her native land Nashville to Los Angeles. The film became Witherspoon's biggest box company destroy to engagement, earning on $35 million in the opening weekend and grossing on $127 million nationally in the US. Despite the advertisement achievement, sweet-tempered Home Alabama was certain harmful reviews by critics. It was called a romantic comedy so rote, dull and predictable" by The Miami Herald, and the press widely agreed with the aim of Witherspoon was the solitary cause with the aim of helped the film magnetize a generously proportioned audience. When describing Witherspoon's role in the film, The Christian Science Monitor concluded, She is not the movie's highest attraction, she is its solitary attraction.
Clothed in 2003, Witherspoon followed up the achievement of Legally Blonde by starring in the sequel Legally Blonde, ashen & Blonde. Her character, Elle wood, has happen to a Harvard-educated lawyer who is dogged to guard animals from cosmetics industry science tests. The sequel was not as financially profitable as the basic film and it generated mostly essential reviews. USA Today considered the film slow, unfunny and almost cringe worthy, but besides famous with the aim of Reese Witherspoon still does a fine job portraying the average haired adorable brainiac, but her top notch comic timing is shattered on the somber dialogue. Meanwhile, Salon.Com concluded with the aim of the sequel calcifies everything with the aim of was enjoyable not far off from the basic film. Despite being panned by critics, the sequel took on $39 million in its basic five days in the U.S. Box company charts and went on to gross $90 million in the US. Witherspoon traditional a $15 million income in place of the role a preliminary central theme to kind her consistently single of Hollywood's highest paid actresses from 2002 onwards.
Clothed in 2004, Witherspoon starred in Vanity Fair, adapted from the 19th century classic novel Vanity Fair and directed by Mira Nair. Witherspoon's character Becky Sharp is a woman whose poor childhood turns her into an ambitious person with a hardhearted determination to unearth opulence and found herself a perception in society. Witherspoon was pregnant throughout the filmmaking of this film and was therefore carefully costumed to conceal her pregnancy. This pregnancy was not a impediment to her toil, as Witherspoon held the gestation had in verity helped her portrayal of Sharp's character I love the brightness with the aim of pregnancy brings, I love the fleshiness, I love the ample bosom it gave me much more to theatrical production with, she thought. The film and Witherspoon's portrayal of Sharp traditional high-quality reviews, as The Hollywood Reporter wrote, Nair's cast is splendid. Witherspoon does justice to the juicy role by giving the part more buoyancy than ill-discipline. At the same schedule, The Charlotte Observer called her toil an outstanding performance that's soft around the edges and the Los Angeles Times concluded with the aim of Becky is a part Reese Witherspoon was born to theatrical production.
Walk the Line and stake Oscar toil (2005–2009)
Clothed in last-minute 2004, Witherspoon began working alongside indication Ruffalo on the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven. Her character, Elizabeth Masterson, is an ambitious adolescent doctor. On her way to a blind engagement she gets into a car accident, and is gone in a coma. Her spirit returns to her old residence someplace she soon finds factual love. Earlier with the aim of time Witherspoon was chosen to portray June delivery service coins, the flash wife of terrain harmony singer and songwriter Johnny coins, in Walk the Line. She in no way had the ability to join delivery service coins, as Witherspoon was filming Vanity Fair by the side of the schedule delivery service coins died. Witherspoon performed her own vocals in the film, and her songs had to be performed in front of a live audience. When she learned with the aim of she had to run live, Witherspoon was so anxious with the aim of she asked her lawyer to terminate the film contract. That was the nearly everyone challenging part of the role, she soon recalled in an interview, I'd in no way sung professionally. Subsequently, she had to consume six months learning how to sing in place of the role. Witherspoon's portrayal of delivery service coins was well traditional by critics, and Roger Ebert wrote with the aim of her performance added boundless energy to the film. She won several awards in place of her performance, together with the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTA and the Academy Award in place of Best Actress in a Lead Role.
Besides essential achievement in the film industry, Witherspoon and her co star in Walk the Line, Joaquin Phoenix, traditional a proposal in place of collaborative capture on tape of the time from the CMT Music Awards. Witherspoon spoken her passion in place of the film I really like in this film with the aim of it is realistic and portrays sort of a real nuptials, a real correlation someplace near are forbidden feelings and fallibility. And it is not far off from compassion in the long haul, not immediately the small stress-free solutions to problems. She besides spoke not far off from June delivery service coins, stating with the aim of she held delivery service coins was a woman ahead of time of her schedule I think the really remarkable gadget not far off from her character is with the aim of she did all of these things with the aim of we sort of find out as regular things in the 1950s whilst it wasn't really acceptable in place of a woman to be married and split twice and maintain two diverse children by two diverse husbands and travel around in a car rotund of very famous musicians all by herself. She didn't try to comply to social convention, so I think with the aim of makes her a very contemporary woman.
Witherspoon's basic stake Oscar role came in the contemporary daylight hours fairy tale Penelope, co starring Christina Ricci. Witherspoon played the underneath role of Annie, the superlative acquaintance of Penelope, a girl who has a curse in her dynasty. The film was produced by Witherspoon's company Type A Films and premiered by the side of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. After the final liberation engagement of Penelope was delayed twice, the film eventually had a February 2008 liberation. Witherspoon was back in front of the camera again in November 2006, as shooting began in place of the taking sides spy story Rendition. She starred alongside Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard and Jake Gyllenhaal, in performance Isabella El Ibrahim, the pregnant wife of a bombing suspect. Rendition was released in October 2007 and distinct Witherspoon's basic manifestation in theaters in two years, since the 2005 liberation of Walk the Line. The film traditional mostly harmful reviews and was in the main considered a disappointment by the side of the Toronto Film Festival. Witherspoon's performance was besides criticized Reese Witherspoon is surprisingly lifeless, USA Today wrote, She regularly injects energy and spirit into her parts, but at this point, her performance feels tamped down. Clothed in December 2007, Witherspoon began filming the feast comedy Four Christmases, a story not far off from a combine who maintain to consume their Christmas Day demanding to visit all four of their split parents, and in which she stars alongside Vince Vaughn. The film was released in November 2008. Despite solitary receiving usual reviews by critics, the film became a box company achievement, earning more than 120 million US dollars nationally and US$157m worldwide. Witherspoon subsequently provided the voice in place of Susan Murphy, the highest character of the central processing unit animated 3 D element film Monsters v. Aliens, which had a protest 27, 2009, liberation from DreamWorks Animation. Clothed in 2009, she besides produced a spin inedible film of Legally Blonde called Legally Blondes, featuring Camilla Milly Rosso and Rebecca Becky Rosso.
Passion triangle episode and advertisement struggles (2010–present)
With the exception of her animated role in Monsters v. Aliens, Witherspoon did not appear in a live dogfight film in place of two years following the liberation of Four Christmases. Witherspoon told Entertainment Weekly with the aim of the break was unplanned, stating with the aim of, I immediately didn’t read no matter which I liked. There are a fate of really, really, really great big movies not far off from robots and things and there’s not a part in place of a 34 time old woman in a robot film. Witherspoon returned with three films in 2010, 2011, and 2012, all centered around Witherspoon as a woman fixed in a love triangle sandwiched between two men. Clothed in an interview with MTV, Witherspoon lightheartedly referred to this trio of films as her love triangle episode.
The basic film was James L. Brooks's romantic comedy How Do You Know, which starred Witherspoon as a thirty something earlier nationwide softball player who struggles to go for sandwiched between a philandering baseball star boyfriend (Owen Wilson) and a organization executive being investigated in place of white collar crime (Paul Rudd). The film was filmed on the summer and fall of 2009 in Philadelphia and Washington D.C., and released on December 17, 2010. The film was both a essential and box company failure. Despite an on $100 million plan, the film earned solitary $7.6 million in its opening weekend, leading the Los Angeles Times to call it single of the year's biggest flops. The film earned principally harmful reviews from critics, scoring 35% on Rotten Tomatoes with 111 reviews as of last-minute December 2010. Next up in place of Witherspoon was a flash film based on a love triangle, the film adaptation of the 1930s show drama Water in place of Elephants. Witherspoon began show training in protest 2010 in place of her role as Marlena, a alluring entertainer puzzled in a nuptials to a changeable companion (Christoph Waltz) but intrigued by the circus's another veterinarian (Robert Pattinson). Filming in place of the film took place sandwiched between last-minute May and first majestic 2010 in various locations in Tennessee, Georgia and California. It was released on April 22, 2011, and traditional sundry essential reviews, with many citing a lack of chemistry sandwiched between Witherspoon and Pattinson.
Clothed in September 2010, Witherspoon began principal photography in Vancouver in place of the third film, This Means War, a 20th Century Fox spy comedy directed by McG. Clothed in the film, Witherspoon stars as a woman by the side of the core of a battle sandwiched between two superlative contacts (played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) who are both in love with her. The film had a sneak greatest liberation on Valentine's Day, by fully opening on February 17, 2012. The film was panned by critics (with a 25% Rotten Tomatoes rating), and fared poorly by the side of the box company, taking fifth place on its opening weekend with sales of $17.6 million. The New York Times remarked with the aim of this extended the box company cold trait in place of the Oscar winning Ms. Witherspoon, and with the aim of while Hollywood keeps demanding to go Reese Witherspoon into a Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts in place of a another generation, the another generation keeps refusing to take the memo.
Witherspoon's impending films warning sign a departure from the love triangle theme. Clothed in September 2011, virtually a time similar to introduction toil on This Means War, Witherspoon began filming Jeff Nichols's imminent of age drama Mud in Arkansas. Witherspoon theater the underneath role of Juniper, the earlier girlfriend of a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey), who enlists two confined boys to help him break out capture and relight his romance with Witherspoon's character. It is slated in place of a 2013 liberation, but premiered in May 2012 in competition in place of the Palme d'Or by the side of the Cannes Film Festival. Witherspoon's subsequently film will be Atom Egoyan's adaptation of the factual crime put your name down for Devil's Knot, which examines the controversial legal action of the West Memphis Three. Like Mud, the story is collection in Arkansas. Witherspoon will theatrical production Pam Hobbs, the look after of single of three adolescent murder victims. The film will arise filming in Georgia in June 2012. Egoyan has famous with the aim of although the role requires an emotionally loaded journey, he met with Reese, and talked by the side of measurement lengthwise not far off from the project, and she's eager to take on the challenge.
Witherspoon is subsequently attached to Big Eyes, in black and white and directed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and produced by Tim Burton. Witherspoon will theatrical production Margaret Keane, an dancer who produces broad eyed portraits with the aim of became a sensation in the 1960s but were sold under the refer to of her companion Walter Keane (played by Ryan Reynolds), creating conflict sandwiched between them. It has besides been rumoured with the aim of Witherspoon will harvest (under the Type A banner) and star in both Pharm Girl, a film not far off from a woman who takes on the pharmaceutical industry, and a Peggy Lee biopic to be directed by Nora Ephron. Witherspoon's refer to has besides been attached to a quantity of other promising opportunity films, together with the impending Sony Pictures film Sex Tape, a Universal Pictures recreate of the 1939 comedy Midnight, scripted by Michael Arndt, and the horror film Our Family Troubles, which she would harvest through Type A with Jennifer Simpson, co producer of Legally Blonde 2. Witherspoon traditional a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 1, 2010, by the side of 6262 Hollywood Blvd.
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