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Reese Witherspoon 1976 49
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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2025 Maybe Next Time Producer
2025 Twelfth Knight Producer
2025 Mrs. Claus Producer
2025 The Thing About Jellyfish Producer
2025 The Cactus Producer
2025 Run, Rose, Run Producer
2025 You're Cordially Invited as Margot Producer
2024 Meet Me in Rome Executive Producer
2023 June as Self
2023 Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah Executive Producer
2023 Being Mary Tyler Moore as Self (voice)
2023 Your Place or Mine as Debbie Producer
2023 Meet Me in Paris Executive Producer
2022 Something from Tiffany's Producer
2022 Minions & More Volume 2 as Rosita (voice)
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing Producer
2022 Fair Play Executive Producer
2021 Sing 2 as Rosita (voice)
2021 Come Home as Rosita (voice)
2021 Friends: The Reunion as Self
2020 Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) as Self
2020 Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music as Self
2020 Becoming as Self
2020 My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2019 Lucy in the Sky Producer
2019 This Changes Everything as Self
2018 A Wrinkle in Time as Mrs. Whatsit
2017 Election - Reese Witherspoon as Self
2017 Home Again as Alice Kinney
2017 Gunter Babysits as Rosita (voice)
2016 Sing as Rosita (voice)
2015 Everything Is Copy as Self
2015 Hot Pursuit as Officer Rose 'Coop' Cooper Producer
2014 Inherent Vice as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
2014 9 Kisses as Girl at Costume Party
2014 Wild as Cheryl Strayed Producer
2014 Gone Girl Producer
2014 The Good Lie as Carrie Davis
2013 Devil's Knot as Pam Hobbs
2013 Mud as Juniper
2013 Monsters vs Aliens Stories
2012 Dreamworks Spooky Stories as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
2012 This Means War as Lauren
2011 Water for Elephants as Marlena Rosenbluth
2010 How Do You Know as Lisa Jorgenson
2009 Legally Blondes Producer
2009 Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
2009 Monsters vs Aliens as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
2008 Four Christmases as Kate
2007 Rendition as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
2006 Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line as Self
2006 Penelope as Annie Producer
2005 Just Like Heaven as Dr. Elizabeth Masterson
2005 Walk the Line as June Carter
2004 Vanity Fair as Becky Sharp
2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Elle Woods Executive Producer
2002 Sweet Home Alabama as Melanie Smooter
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest as Cecily Cardew
2001 Legally Blonde as Elle Woods
2001 The Trumpet of the Swan as Serena (voice)
2000 Little Nicky as Holly
2000 American Psycho as Evelyn Williams
1999 Election as Tracy Enid Flick
1999 Best Laid Plans as Lissa
1999 Cruel Intentions as Annette Hargrove
1998 Pleasantville as Jennifer
1998 Overnight Delivery as Ivy Miller
1998 Twilight as Mel Ames
1996 Freeway as Vanessa Lutz
1996 Fear as Nicole Walker
1994 S.F.W. as Wendy Pfister
1993 Jack the Bear as Karen Morris
1993 A Far Off Place as Nonnie Parker
1992 Desperate Choices: To Save My Child as Cassie Robbins
1991 Wildflower as Ellie Perkins
1991 The Man in the Moon as Danielle "Dani" Trant