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 Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Shortly after, the family moved back to the USA & settled in Nashville, Tennessee.Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age. At age 7, she began modeling. This led to appearances on several local television commercials. At age 11, she placed first in a Ten-State Talent Fair.In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon (1991). Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her rave reviews. Roles in bigger films such as Jack the Bear (1993) and A Far Off Place (1993) followed shortly after.Following high school graduation in 1994 from Harpeth Hall, a Nashville all girls school, Reese decided to put her acting career on hold and attend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. However, her collegiate plans were shortly dashed when she accepted roles to star in two major motion pictures: Fear (1996), alongside Mark Wahlberg, and Freeway (1996) with Kiefer Sutherland. Although neither film was a huge box-office success, they did help to establish Reese as a rising starlet in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and better film roles. Those bigger roles came in movies such as Pleasantville (1998), Election (1999) and Cruel Intentions (1999).Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy, Legally Blonde (2001). The movie was huge box-office smash and established Reese as one of the top female draws in Hollywood. The next year, she scored a follow-up hit with Sweet Home Alabama (2002), which went on to gross over $100 million dollars at the box office. In 2006, she took home the best actress Oscar for her role as June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line (2005). On the late 2000s and early 2010s, Reese continued to star in more romantic comedies, such as Four Christmases (2008) and How Do You Know (2010). In December 2010, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the year 2014, she produced both Gone Girl (2014) and Wild (2014), for which she got nominated for best actress Oscar again for her role as Cheryl Strayed.
Bio:
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Shortly after, the family moved back to the USA & settled in Nashville, Tennessee.Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age. At age 7, she began modeling. This led to appearances on several local television commercials. At age 11, she placed first in a Ten-State Talent Fair.In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon (1991). Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her rave reviews. Roles in bigger films such as Jack the Bear (1993) and A Far Off Place (1993) followed shortly after.Following high school graduation in 1994 from Harpeth Hall, a Nashville all girls school, Reese decided to put her acting career on hold and attend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. However, her collegiate plans were shortly dashed when she accepted roles to star in two major motion pictures: Fear (1996), alongside Mark Wahlberg, and Freeway (1996) with Kiefer Sutherland. Although neither film was a huge box-office success, they did help to establish Reese as a rising starlet in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and better film roles. Those bigger roles came in movies such as Pleasantville (1998), Election (1999) and Cruel Intentions (1999).Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy, Legally Blonde (2001). The movie was huge box-office smash and established Reese as one of the top female draws in Hollywood. The next year, she scored a follow-up hit with Sweet Home Alabama (2002), which went on to gross over $100 million dollars at the box office. In 2006, she took home the best actress Oscar for her role as June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line (2005). On the late 2000s and early 2010s, Reese continued to star in more romantic comedies, such as Four Christmases (2008) and How Do You Know (2010). In December 2010, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the year 2014, she produced both Gone Girl (2014) and Wild (2014), for which she got nominated for best actress Oscar again for her role as Cheryl Strayed.
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Was approached by a few companies to record music after she provided her own singing voice for Walk the Line (2005).Considers Wild (2014) to be her best film and her best performance.Rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car on September 7, 2011 while jogging in Santa Monica, California. Was treated for minor injuries before being sent home. Received a quarter-inch scar on her forehead that she hides with her bangs.Shortly after she started acting, she had an audition for a role in Cape Fear (1991). She was supposed to meet with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for the audition, but at the time did not really know who they were. On the plane, she was talking to the man next to her about her audition, and the man started to rave to her about De Niro and Scorsese. This made her so nervous that she completely blew the audition and the role eventually went to Juliette Lewis.She was a gymnast for seven years.Her mother, Betty, has a Ph.D. in pediatric nursing and her father, John, is a surgeon.Amongst the guests at her wedding were Ren��e Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Alyssa Milano, Isla Fisher, Selma Blair and Salma Hayek.Was 8 months pregnant with her son Tennessee when she completed filming on Devil's Knot (2013).Considers Meryl Streep's performance in Sophie's Choice (1982) as the greatest female performance of all time. Witherspoon also states that she was influenced by Streep.Reese is her mother's maiden name.Neither she nor her ex-husband, actor Ryan Phillippe, use their real first names - Reese's first name is Laura, Ryan's first name is Matthew.Her son is named after former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Deacon Phillippe, a distant relative of her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.Best friends with Selma Blair, Chelsea Handler and Ren��e Zellweger.Co-founded the film production company "Pacific Standard" with Australian partner Bruna Papandrea in 2012. First books optioned were, "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and "Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found" by Cheryl Strayed.Has 3 children: daughter, Ava Phillippe (b. September 9, 1999) & son, Deacon Phillippe (b. October 23, 2003) with ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe and son, Tennessee Toth (b. September 27, 2012) with husband, Jim Toth.Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her son Deacon in order to begin filming Walk the Line (2005).Was the first person to host Saturday Night Live (1975) after the September 11 terror attacks.Auditioned for the role of Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins (2005), but Katie Holmes was cast instead.As extra credit for a high school class, she worked as an office production assistant for the film Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). Director Carl Franklin paid homage to her by featuring Legally Blonde (2001) in the film Out of Time (2003).As a child, she appeared in her local Sunday paper modeling kids' track suits and such. She said that it was creative for her. She was paid $50 a day.She runs a production company called "Type A Films" with Debra SiegalIs one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Ren��e Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Mis��rables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).Is just 9 years younger than Laura Dern, who played her mother in Wild (2014).Ryan proposed to her in December 1998 while the couple was vacationing at The Planter's Inn in Charleston, South Carolina.She has English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and distant Dutch, ancestry. She is said to be a relative of John Witherspoon, a Gifford, Scotland-born Presbyterian minister who attended Haddington Grammar School, obtained his Master's degree from Edinburgh University in 1739, and was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.Her daughter, Ava Phillippe, is named after her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe's, grandmother.Started children's acting classes at a community college at the age of seven. She was taking adult acting classes by the age of nine.She lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a young child.Has played Robert Pattinson's mother in Vanity Fair (2004), but his scene was cut from the end product. In Water for Elephants (2011) the two of them play lovers.Is the second actress to win the best actress Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first was Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ava in order to begin filming her guest appearance on Friends (1994).Performs the audiobook version of Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird. In Four Christmases (2008), she appears with Sissy Spacek; who performed the audiobook of To Kill A Mockingbird; and Robert Duvall, who played Boo Radley in the film.Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, having met him on the set of Rendition (2007) (January 2007-November 2009).Her performance as Tracy Flick in Election (1999) is ranked #45 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).She collects antique linens and is crazy about old embroidery.Married Jim Toth on March 26, 2011, in a marquee on her ranch in Ojai, California, wearing a custom-designed gown by Monique Lhuillier, before 120 guests. Eighty white doves were released just moments after the couple said "I do".Refused the lead roles in two horror movies: Scream (1996) and Urban Legend (1998).She was honored with the MTV Generation Award at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, being the second female in the history of the show to receive the award, following Sandra Bullock who received the award one year earlier.Won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in 2006, for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005). Funnily enough, Witherspoon had already played another Carter family member before; she played Mother Maybelle Carter (June Carter's mother) in her fourth grade play.Revealed in the 84th Academy Awards montage that her favorite movie is Overboard (1987).Her wedding ring is an early 1990s Neil Lane, Asscher-cut-diamond, and there are only a few like it in the world.Majored in English Literature at Stanford University; on leave from her studies as of 1996.The year she won her Oscar for Walk the Line (2005), her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe appeared in the movie that won Best Picture, Crash (2004).Steve Dontanville from the William Morris Agency is still her agent. They got together after The Man in the Moon (1991).Was considered for the role of Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996), which went to Claire Danes.On December 1, 2010, she was awarded the 2,425th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by James L. Brooks and James Mangold, accompanied by her children, Ava and Deacon Phillippe, and boyfriend Jim Toth. The star is located at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the West Hollywood Hotel.Her favorite films include Splendor in the Grass (1961), Overboard (1987), The Impossible (2012), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).The dress she wore at the Golden Globe Awards in 2006 was also worn by Kirsten Dunst at the Golden Globe Awards in 2003.Her parents separated in 1996 when she was age 20. They still remain close.She was a cheerleader in high school and a debutante. |
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Reese Witherspoon |
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Producer,Actress,Executive (IMDB) |
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Reese Witherspoon profile
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5' 1?' (1.57 m) |
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, wher&# |
| Trivia: |
Was approached by a few companies to record music after she provided her own singing voice for Walk the Line (2005).Considers Wild (2014) to be her best film and her best performance.Rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car on September 7, 2011 while jogging in Santa Monica, California. Was treated for minor injuries before being sent home. Received a quarter-inch scar on her forehead that she hides with her bangs.Shortly after she started acting, she had an audition for a role in Cape Fear (1991). She was supposed to meet with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for the audition, but at the time did not really know who they were. On the plane, she was talking to the man next to her about her audition, and the man started to rave to her about De Niro and Scorsese. This made her so nervous that she completely blew the audition and the role eventually went to Juliette Lewis.She was a gymnast for seven years.Her mother, Betty, has a Ph.D. in pediatric nursing and her father, John, is a surgeon.Amongst the guests at her wedding were Ren��e Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Alyssa Milano, Isla Fisher, Selma Blair and Salma Hayek.Was 8 months pregnant with her son Tennessee when she completed filming on Devil's Knot (2013).Considers Meryl Streep's performance in Sophie's Choice (1982) as the greatest female performance of all time. Witherspoon also states that she was influenced by Streep.Reese is her mother's maiden name.Neither she nor her ex-husband, actor Ryan Phillippe, use their real first names - Reese's first name is Laura, Ryan's first name is Matthew.Her son is named after former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Deacon Phillippe, a distant relative of her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.Best friends with Selma Blair, Chelsea Handler and Ren��e Zellweger.Co-founded the film production company "Pacific Standard" with Australian partner Bruna Papandrea in 2012. First books optioned were, "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and "Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found" by Cheryl Strayed.Has 3 children: daughter, Ava Phillippe (b. September 9, 1999) & son, Deacon Phillippe (b. October 23, 2003) with ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe and son, Tennessee Toth (b. September 27, 2012) with husband, Jim Toth.Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her son Deacon in order to begin filming Walk the Line (2005).Was the first person to host Saturday Night Live (1975) after the September 11 terror attacks.Auditioned for the role of Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins (2005), but Katie Holmes was cast instead.As extra credit for a high school class, she worked as an office production assistant for the film Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). Director Carl Franklin paid homage to her by featuring Legally Blonde (2001) in the film Out of Time (2003).As a child, she appeared in her local Sunday paper modeling kids' track suits and such. She said that it was creative for her. She was paid $50 a day.She runs a production company called "Type A Films" with Debra SiegalIs one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Ren��e Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Mis��rables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).Is just 9 years younger than Laura Dern, who played her mother in Wild (2014).Ryan proposed to her in December 1998 while the couple was vacationing at The Planter's Inn in Charleston, South Carolina.She has English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and distant Dutch, ancestry. She is said to be a relative of John Witherspoon, a Gifford, Scotland-born Presbyterian minister who attended Haddington Grammar School, obtained his Master's degree from Edinburgh University in 1739, and was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.Her daughter, Ava Phillippe, is named after her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe's, grandmother.Started children's acting classes at a community college at the age of seven. She was taking adult acting classes by the age of nine.She lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a young child.Has played Robert Pattinson's mother in Vanity Fair (2004), but his scene was cut from the end product. In Water for Elephants (2011) the two of them play lovers.Is the second actress to win the best actress Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first was Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ava in order to begin filming her guest appearance on Friends (1994).Performs the audiobook version of Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird. In Four Christmases (2008), she appears with Sissy Spacek; who performed the audiobook of To Kill A Mockingbird; and Robert Duvall, who played Boo Radley in the film.Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, having met him on the set of Rendition (2007) (January 2007-November 2009).Her performance as Tracy Flick in Election (1999) is ranked #45 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).She collects antique linens and is crazy about old embroidery.Married Jim Toth on March 26, 2011, in a marquee on her ranch in Ojai, California, wearing a custom-designed gown by Monique Lhuillier, before 120 guests. Eighty white doves were released just moments after the couple said "I do".Refused the lead roles in two horror movies: Scream (1996) and Urban Legend (1998).She was honored with the MTV Generation Award at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, being the second female in the history of the show to receive the award, following Sandra Bullock who received the award one year earlier.Won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in 2006, for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005). Funnily enough, Witherspoon had already played another Carter family member before; she played Mother Maybelle Carter (June Carter's mother) in her fourth grade play.Revealed in the 84th Academy Awards montage that her favorite movie is Overboard (1987).Her wedding ring is an early 1990s Neil Lane, Asscher-cut-diamond, and there are only a few like it in the world.Majored in English Literature at Stanford University; on leave from her studies as of 1996.The year she won her Oscar for Walk the Line (2005), her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe appeared in the movie that won Best Picture, Crash (2004).Steve Dontanville from the William Morris Agency is still her agent. They got together after The Man in the Moon (1991).Was considered for the role of Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996), which went to Claire Danes.On December 1, 2010, she was awarded the 2,425th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by James L. Brooks and James Mangold, accompanied by her children, Ava and Deacon Phillippe, and boyfriend Jim Toth. The star is located at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the West Hollywood Hotel.Her favorite films include Splendor in the Grass (1961), Overboard (1987), The Impossible (2012), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).The dress she wore at the Golden Globe Awards in 2006 was also worn by Kirsten Dunst at the Golden Globe Awards in 2003.Her parents separated in 1996 when she was age 20. They still remain close.She was a cheerleader in high school and a debutante. |
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Mostly plays chipper-type women convinced of their own successful destiny
Expressive face
Smooth voice with a strong southern accent
Blonde hair and blue eyes |
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[on having a baby]: Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.
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[on how she choose the films she will be in]: I have a weird process, but the main thing is like this: I hear her voice in my head. There are a lot of wonderful scripts my agents can't believe I pass on, but I do because I can't hear the voice. It doesn't appeal to me then. I'm really careful. Unless I hear the voice, I can't do it.
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[on Ryan Phillippe]: I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.
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[on motherhood and her baby]: I feel good, I'm proud of Election (1999) and very proud of this [her child]. It couldn't be a better time. It's always the right time when it happens. You make it the right time.
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[on Pleasantville (1998)]: We were thrilled for just the three nominations we got, but obviously it's a little sad. I went through so many press junkets with people saying they loved it. And Joan Allen was robbed but she can't get nominated every year. She's an inspiration for every young actress. She has that calm and reserve about herself and makes you think she appreciates the normal things of everyday. Then she transforms into this character that's so different. |
| Salaries: |
The Morning Show (2019) - $2,000,000 / episode + back end (2019, 2020)
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Big Little Lies (2017) - $1 000 000 per episode (season 2 - including producer fees)
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This Means War (2012) - $12,000,000
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| Job title: |
Producer,Actress,Executive |
| Others works: |
Music video" Appeared in the video for Hoku's "A Perfect Day", 2001.
TV commercial: Ames, 1989.
Music video: Appeared in video for "Every You, Every Me" by Placebo, (1999)
TV commercial: Opryland (1989)
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| Spouse: |
Jim Toth (March 26, 2011 - present) (filed for divorce, 1 child)Ryan Phillippe (June 5, 1999 - October 5, 2007) (divorced, 2 children) |
| Children: |
Ava PhillippeDeacon PhillippeTennessee Toth |
| Parents: |
Betty Witherspoon
Dr John Draper Witherspoon |
| Relatives: |
John D. Witherspoon (Sibling) |
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