Reese Witherspoon

Bio

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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon(born March 22, 1976) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.Witherspoon landed her first feature role in the movie The Man in the Moon at age fourteen, followed by several moderately successful family oriented comedies and dramas in the early to mid 1990s, and then the teenage thriller Fear, where she became a teen idol. Witherspoon emerged as a young woman in Election. She acquired her breakout role in Legally Blonde, a role she reprised in a sequel. In 2005, Witherspoon received worldwide attention for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, a role that earned Witherspoon an Academy Award for Best Actress. Witherspoon is divorced from actor Ryan Phillippe, whom she married in 1999. They have two children, Ava and Deacon.Witherspoon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.She is the daughter of John Witherspoon, a Georgia-born lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves and later an otolaryngologist,and Betty, a pediatric nurse from Harriman, Tennessee and later a professor at Vanderbilt University.

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Personal life

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Witherspoon met American actor Ryan Phillippe at her 21st birthday party in March 1997, where she introduced herself to him saying "I think you're my birthday present."The pair got engaged in December of 1998.The following year, after starring together in the box office hit Cruel Intentions, the couple got married in Charleston, South Carolina on June 5, 1999.They have two children: daughter Ava Elizabeth, born September 9, 1999, and son Deacon, born October 23, 2003.In order to be able look after the children at all times, the couple alternated shooting for films.By 2005, in response to critical news reports of Witherspoon and Phillippe receiving marriage counseling, Witherspoon stated, "We've done that in the past, and it's always struck me as odd that people grabbed onto that story and made it sound so negative."On June 21, 2006 Witherspoon sued the US-based tabloid Star Magazine for running a false story on a third pregnancy.She sought unspecified general and punitive damages in the lawsuit, asserting that the claim harmed her reputation because it suggested she was hiding the news from producers of her upcoming films.

Filmography

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2009 Midnight
2008 Four Christmases
2007 Rendition
2006 Penelope
2005 Just Like Heaven
2005 Walk the Line
2004 Vanity Fair
2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2002 Sweet Home Alabama
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest
2001 Saturday Night Live: Reese Witherspoon
2001 The Party's Over
2001 Legally Blonde
2000 Friends: The One With Rachel's Sister
2000 Trumpet of the Swan
2000 American Psycho
2000 King of the Hill: Hanky Panky
2000 Friends: The One Where Chandler Can't Cry
2000 Little Nicky
1999 Election
1999 Best Laid Plans
1999 Cruel Intentions
1998 Pleasantville
1998 Twilight
1996 Overnight Delivery
1996 Freeway
1996 Fear
1994 S.F.W.
1993 A Far Off Place
1993 Jack the Bear
1993 Return to Lonesome Dove
1992 Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1991 Wildflower
1991 The Man in the Moon