Rebecca Romijn's Bio
Name: Reese Witherspoon
Birth Name: Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon
Height: 5' 2"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: March 22, 1976
Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Occupation: actress
Education: Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN
Stanford University, Stanford, CA (majored in English Literature)
Husband: Ryan Phillippe (actor; married on June 5, 1999 in Charleston, North Carolina)
Father: John Witherspoon (doctor)
Mother: Betty Witherspoon (doctor; professor)
Brother: John Draper Witherspoon (born in 1973)
Daughter: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe (born on September 9, 1999)
Claim to fame: as Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions (1999)
Contact:
C/O International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, Ca 90211
USA
BIOGRAPHY:
Reese Witherspoon is known for choosing her roles carefully. In a business that often focuses on (high) salaries, this actor opts for artistic value, and she’s earned audience and critical respect for her trouble.
The photogenic Witherspoon began appearing in commercials and taking on modeling jobs at age seven until, at age 11, she won a 10-state talent search and left her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to accept a significant part in 1991's The Man In The Moon. She was immediately cast in the 1991 TV movie Wildflower, then Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (TV - 1992), Jack the Bear (1993) and SFW (1994).
Education subsequently became Witherspoon’s priority as she entered Stanford University to major in English literature. Until that time she had studied mostly via correspondence on film sets. Films won out, when two years later, in 1996, the Stanford degree was put on hold for Fear, Freeway (for a Catalonian International Film Festival Best Actress award), and Overnight Delivery. High profile roles in Twilight (1998), Pleasantville (1998 - Movieline Young Hollywood award), Cruel Intentions (1999) and Best Laid Plans (1999) followed. Witherspoon briefly returned to television to make a guest appearance on the primetime comedy, Friends, but it was another return, this time to modeling, that made her “very big” in Hollywood when her six-story high image in a GAP advertisement graced Sunset Boulevard. Literal largeness aside, the actor’s most recent film role, in Election (1999), has earned her by far the most acclaim -- the National Society of Film Critics’ Best Actress award, a Golden Globe nomination, a Los Angeles Film Critics’ award nomination, an Online Film Critics’ Society award, a National Society of Film Critics’ award, and an Independent Spirit award.
Busy with all of that on-camera, 1999 was a banner year off-camera, as well, as Witherspoon wed fellow actor Ryan Phillippe and gave birth to daughter, Ava. The couple appeared opposite one another in Cruel Intentions, but first met in 1997 at Witherspoon’s 21st birthday party.
Coming up are opportunities for Witherspoon to take her career to yet another level. There are acting roles, of course, (in Desert Blue and American Psycho) and she is slated to not only star in, but produce Slow Motion. Her hope is to one day be a screen writer. Moviegoers can look forward to an eclectic and high caliber mix from this likeable star. She knows how to pick ‘em.
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