Saturday, December 29, 2007

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Reese Witherspoon Profile

Name: Reese Witherspoon

Birth Name: Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Height: 5' 2"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: March 22, 1976

Birth Place: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Profession: actress

Education: Harpeth Hall in Nashville, Tennessee
Stanford University in Stanford, California (majored in English Literature)

Husband/Wife: Ryan Phillippe (actor; born on September 10, 1974; married on June 5, 1999; divorced on October 5, 2007)

Father: John Witherspoon (doctor)

Mother: Betty Witherspoon (doctor; professor)

Brother: John Draper Witherspoon (born in 1973)

Son: Deacon Phillippe (born on October 23, 2003; father: Ryan Phillippe)

Daughter: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe (born on September 9, 1999 in Los Angeles, California; mother: Reese Wotherspoon)

Claim to fame: as Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions (1999)

Reese Witherspoon Biography

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an Academy Award winning American actress, who has established as the highest-paid actress of Hollywood in recent years.

Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the leading actress in the movie The Man in the Moon in 1991. Her performance received positive reviews, which became a motivation for her to continue an acting career. Witherspoon's performance in Freeway in 1996 established her as a rising star, and led to roles in three major movies Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight in 1998. In 1999, Witherspoon appeared in the critically acclaimed Election, which garnered her first Golden Globe nomination. 2001 saw her breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in the following year, she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial success to date. In 2005, Witherspoon received worldwide attention and praise for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, a role that earned her an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Witherspoon married actor Ryan Phillippe in 1999 and has two children, Ava and Deacon. She and Phillippe separated at the end of 2006 and divorced in October 2007. Witherspoon is known for her work in child and woman advocacy organizations; she serves on the board of Children's Defense Fund and is the first Global Ambassador of Avon Products's charity.

Witherspoon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a middle-class family. Her father, John Witherspoon, is a Georgia-born otolaryngologist who previously served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Her mother, Betty, is a Ph.D pediatric nurse from Harriman, Tennessee, who works as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. Witherspoon is a direct descendant of Scotland-born John Witherspoon, the sixth president of Princeton University and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. Because Witherspoon's father worked for the US military in Wiesbaden, Germany, she lived there for four years as a small child. After returning to the United States, she settled and spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was raised in the Episcopalian religion.

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