Reese Witherspoon
Birthday: 1976-03-22
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Synopsis
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Following a leading role opposite Mark Wahlberg in Fear (1996), 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 her role as Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for her starring role in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). In 2005, she garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the biographical musical film Walk the Line, which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Witherspoon then starred in several critically and commercially unsuccessful comedies, during which her sole box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011). She 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. Witherspoon has since begun work in television, by producing and starring in 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). Witherspoon's various accolades include an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Big Little Lies. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world as of 2019. 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.
Outside of acting, Witherspoon also owns a clothing company, Draper James, 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 dedicated to women's causes. In 2000, she co-founded production company Type A Films, which has since merged with Hello Sunshine, a media firm which Witherspoon also co-founded in 2016. Hello Sunshine, focused on female-led stories, has produced many films and television series.
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Acting
Sing 2
as Rosita (voice)
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.
Little Fires Everywhere
as Elena Richardson
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
Fierce Queens
as Narrator
Explore phenomenal female animals: the rebel matriarchs, powerful leaders and dangerous lovers of the natural world.
Becoming
as Self
Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others.
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The Morning Show
as Bradley Jackson
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
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Big Little Lies - Season 2
as Madeline Martha Mackenzie
The apparently perfect lives of upper-class mothers, at a prestigious elementary school, unravel to the point of murder when a single-mother moves to their quaint Californian beach town.
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This Changes Everything
as Self
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
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A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. Whatsit
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
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Shine On with Reese
as Self - Host
Join Reese Witherspoon for some real talk and laughs with female trailblazers.
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Home Again
as Alice Kinney
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
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Big Little Lies
as Madeline Mackenzie
The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
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Sing
as Rosita (voice)
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
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Hot Pursuit
as Officer Rose 'Coop' Cooper
An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.
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Everything Is Copy
as Self
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
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The Good Lie
as Carrie Davis
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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Wild
as Cheryl Strayed
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Inherent Vice
as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
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9 Kisses
as Girl at Costume Party
2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.
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Mud
as Juniper
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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Devil's Knot
as Pam Hobbs
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
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This Means War
as Lauren
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.
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Water for Elephants
as Marlena Rosenbluth
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
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How Do You Know
as Lisa Jorgenson
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
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Monsters vs Aliens
as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
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Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the team is dispatched to investigate. Everything appears normal, right down to the jack-o-lanterns peering out from every doorstep and windowsill. But when Halloween arrives, those innocent-looking carved pumpkins reveal themselves for what they really are mutant aliens. The altered pumpkins then start to implement their fiendish plan to take over Earth. The Monsters are there to combat the mutant gourds and try to smash their wicked scheme!
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Four Christmases
as Kate
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds.
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Rendition
as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Walk the Line
as June Carter
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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Legally Blonde 3
as Elle Woods
Legally Blonde 3 picks up with Elle Woods at 40 and as a mom with a successful career.
