Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon is a Hollywood actress. Her popularity brought the role of blonde lawyer Elle Woods in the comedy "Blonde in Law." The star then cemented her success by playing June Carter in Crossing the Line. This role earned the actress an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. In total, she has fifty roles in projects of different genres: from comedies to detective dramas.

Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon was born in 1976 in new Orleans to a family of medical professionals. The future actress' mother, Betty Reese Witherspoon, received a Ph.D. in nursing and was a nursing student at Vanderbilt University.

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Father John Witherspoon was a long-time military lieutenant colonel. As a military physician, John specialized in otolaryngology. Reese's father still works.

The girl spent the first years of her life with her parents in The German city of Wiesbaden, where John served in the military. When the family returned to the United States, she settled in Tennessee, where her daughter attended school at Harding Academy, and graduated from the prestigious Harpett Hall Women's School.

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Like many children at an early age, little Reese imitated her parents and wanted to become only a doctor. But changed the course of thinking of the future actress unexpected debut on television. Reese got her first experience in front of television cameras when she was 7 years old when she was invited to participate in the filming of a commercial for a flower shop. After that, the girl began to attend acting classes.

Reese was very good at school, was an excellent student, and the main passion of little Witherspoon was English literature. So after graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Faculty of Philology at Stanford University. But she studied there no more than one course, then left literature and decided to try to succeed in the career of an actress.

Reese's first professional job as an actress was as a country girl, Dani Trant, in Robert Mulligan's Man on the Moon. Reviews of her game were commendable, a dramatic game Witherspoon called touching and unforgettable. Debut in the movie brought the first nomination "Young Actor", which was prestigious for an unknown young actress.

Willerspoon will win the award two years after starring in "Jack the Bear" as best supporting actress. The film was followed by several television works in such projects as "The Unbearable Choice: Save the Child" and "The Return of the Lonely Dove."

Reese's subsequent dramatic roles in the films "Cruel Games" based on the famous book Byderlo de Laclo, "Best Plans", where the actress played in partnership with popular actor Alessandro Nivola, and "Pleasantville", in which Witherspoon starred with Tobey Maguire. Another bright work of the young singer was the main role in the thriller "Fear", where she played with Mark Wahlberg. The love of modern Romeo and Juliet turns into a tragedy for the girl's family.

Reese's talent was cemented by such famous films as "American Psycho," "Nikki, The Devil Jr." and the TV series "Friends," which came out in 2000. The actress's real fame and popularity came from the role of blonde intellectual Elle Woods in the romantic comedy "Blonde in Law", which was released in 2001. The success was deafening, it's safe to say that Witherspoon woke up famous.

In the wake of his popularity, Reese has starred in several good films, such as How Important It Is to Be Serious, oscar Wilde's "Stylish Thing," the sequel "Blonde in Law 2," the film adaptation of William Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair, and the film adaptation of the French writer Mark Levy's novel Between Heaven and Earth. Here Witherspoon plays a girl in a coma, and as a spirit visiting his apartment. These films only consolidated the success that came.

In 2006, Reese won the long-awaited Academy Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for Crossing the Line, starring June Carter Cash, wife of country singer and composer Johnny Cash. For the same role, Witherspoon won a Golden Globe, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Reese does not have any other major awards, except for the star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, which the actress presented on December 1, 2010. The star has brought acclaim to the actress, from this period in the creative biography of Witherspoon every year appears at least one main role.

In 2010, the actress starred in the melodrama "How to Know...", in 2011 - in the drama about America 20 years "Water elephants!", and in 2012 - in the spy comedy "Meaning War", where her partners were Tom Hardy and Chris Pine.

In 2013, the actress appeared in the crime drama "The Devil's Knot." The film shows the problem of obliqueness and intolerance: in a small town there is a terrible murder, but the police, instead of honestly investigating the case, accuses the crime of teenage informals only on the basis of their social inadmissibility. In the same year, the artist participated in the work on the film directed by Jeff Nichols "Mad", which entered the top ten best independent films of the year.

In 2014, the actress starred in the biographical drama "Wild." The film was based on Cheryl Strayed's autobiography Wild. Dangerous journey as a way to find yourself." The author told how the divorce and death of the mother undermined the average American woman.

Cheryl saved an unexpected idea - to walk a thousand miles of the popular tourist route "Pacific Ridge." Reese Witherspoon played the role of Sheryl Stride. For this work, the actress was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and Sputnik in a similar category. The supporting role went to the actress in the comedy "Congenital Vice", where the main character was played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Witherspoon was also interested in working in the Sudanese civil war drama Lies for Salvation, where she was included in the main cast. The heroine Reese participates in the work of the refugee camp, which find refuge victims of war. The topic of helping the disadvantaged is close to her - for a long time the celebrity helps charities in the U.S. and Canada to collect the necessary things for orphans.

In 2015, Witherspoon starred in the comedy action film "Beauty on the Run." Miniature Reese (the actress is 156 cm tall and weighs 46 kg) played the right and brutal female policeman, protecting from the killers the widow of a drug lord, played by Sofia Vergara.

In 2016, Reese began filming the detective series "Big Little Lies." The actress played the title role of Madeleine-Martha McKenzie, a strong and witty woman with a mother with many children. The film screens the novel of the same name by Australian writer Liana Moriarty. The plot of the drama begins with a party for parents organized by the school.

During the fun, one of the participants dies, which triggers a chain of investigations and searches. The author of the book focuses on three mothers. In addition to Witherspoon, the film stars Nicole Kidman, zoe Kravitz and Shailene Woodley. The film premiered in the United States in February 2017. The project was a success. Its creators have won prestigious awards, including four Golden Globe statuettes and eight Emmy Awards.

She met her first husband, Ryan Phillippe, at her birthday party when she was celebrating her adult life. The pair subsequently starred together in the acclaimed film Cruel Games. Reese and Ryan formalized their relationship on June 9, 1999, and in September they had their first child, a daughter named Ava Elizabeth Phillipp.

In her first marriage, Reese had another child, a son, Deacon Reese Phillipp. But the family did not last long. As his wife's career went uphill and her husband, on the contrary, fell, Ryan began to abuse alcohol and drugs. This affected the couple's relationship and led to the divorce, which was officially registered in 2007. The children stayed to live with their mother.

After the divorce, the actress dated colleague Jake Gyllenhaal for two years. The Brokeback Mountain star even prepared to propose to his girlfriend, but Reese gave a negative answer. Soon the relationship between the artists ceased.

Reese built a new serious relationship a year later. Her chosen one was Jim Toth, he represented the affairs of the actress as an agent. The wedding was played in March 2011, and a year and a half later the singer gave birth to her third child - a boy named Tennessee James Toth. Jim Toth gets along well with the couple's children from a previous marriage, the family looks exemplary.

Reese shares details of her personal life on her official Instagram account. Witherspoon posts solitary photos, snaps with friends, colleagues and family. Fans are pleasantly surprised by the great resemblance of Reese and her daughter Ava. According to many, the girl - a copy of her mother in her youth.

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The actress monitors the appearance, so looks younger than her years. Witherspoon regularly attends workouts and maintains his uniform, focusing on the advice of instructor Harley Pastmack. The star trainer program, which at one time helped to lose weight Eva Mendes and Jessica Simpson, includes a five-time meal in small portions and daily fitness exercises.

According to the star, after the birth of children it became more difficult to control the weight, on the body appeared cellulite, so the artist prefers not to advertise their pictures in a swimsuit, and choosing this detail of the wardrobe for rest on the beach, prefers closed models.

In 2018, the actress' filmography was added to the main role in the film "Breaking Time." This is The First Experience of Witherspoon's participation in a sci-fi film. Along with her mainly acting ensemble appeared Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling. The film was created in New york, where artists were able to communicate with indigenous peoples.

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In 2019, it became known about the launch of the filming of the 2nd season of the rating series "Big Little Lies." In the new series, the actor's already loved ensemble will decorate the game of the legendary Meryl Streep. The star will be reincarnated as the heroine Louise Wright, the mother of the deceased Perry Wright, who came to Monterey to clarify the circumstances of the death of his son.

Now in the works of the indefatigable Witherspoon is a continuation of another famous picture "Blonde in law." The third part of the film is scheduled to premiere in 2020. The actress also signed contracts with the creators of the projects "Dinh-ding" and "Wish List".

And the first high-profile premiere of 2020 was the mini-series "And fires are smouldering everywhere." This detective project, created by the eponymous work by Celeste Ing, keeps the audience in suspense until the last minute. Also in the filming took part actors Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Lexi Underwood.

1991 - Man on the Moon

1999 - "Cruel Games"

2000 - "American Psycho"

2001 - "Blonde in Law"

2002 - "How Important It Is to Be Serious"

2003 - "Blonde in Law 2"

2005 - "Crossing the Line"

2005 - "Between Heaven and Earth"

2008 - "Four Christmases"

2011 - "Water to elephants!"

2012 - "So, War"

2013 - "The Devil's Knot"

2014 - "Wild"

2015 - "Beauty on the Run"

2017 - "Big Little Lies"

2018 - "Time Break"

2020 - "fires are smouldering everywhere"

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