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Reese Witherspoon
22 FOLLOWERS • 88 CREDITS • MAR 22, 1976 • 48
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.
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Known For
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Oscars
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Today
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Friends
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The Simpsons
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Teen Choice Awards
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Saturday Night Live
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Chelsea
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King of the Hill
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The Mindy Project
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People's Choice Awards
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American Idol
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Revealed with Jules Asner
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Get Organized with The Home Edit
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My Kind of Country
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Friends: The Reunion
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Becoming
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Return to Lonesome Dove
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American Psycho
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The Man in the Moon
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Twilight
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Cruel Intentions
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Big Little Lies
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Four Christmases
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Mud
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Sing
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The Morning Show
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Walk the Line
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Fear
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Election
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Sing 2
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Just Like Heaven
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Minions & More Volume 2
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Home Again
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Hot Pursuit
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Wild
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This Means War
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Legally Blonde 3
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Your Place or Mine
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Sweet Home Alabama
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How Do You Know
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You're Cordially Invited
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All Stars
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
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Legally Blonde
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
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A Far Off Place
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Vanity Fair
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Monsters vs Aliens
Production Credits
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Sing 2
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Gone Girl
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
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Get Organized with The Home Edit
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Wild
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My Kind of Country
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Surface
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The Last Thing He Told Me
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Truth Be Told
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Influenced
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Elle
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Your Place or Mine
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From Scratch
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Legally Blonde 3
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Legally Blondes
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Something from Tiffany's
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Daisy Jones & the Six
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
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Surf Girls Hawai'i
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Big Little Lies
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The Morning Show
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Hot Pursuit
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Tiny Beautiful Things
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The Pasta Queen
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All Stars
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Love in Fairhope
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Four Christmases
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Little Fires Everywhere
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You're Cordially Invited
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