Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Shortly after, the family moved back to the USA & settled in Nashville, Tennessee.Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age. At age 7, she began modeling. This led to appearances on several local television commercials. At age 11, she placed first in a Ten-State Talent Fair.In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in Robert Mulligan's Człowiek z księżyca (1991). Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her rave reviews. Roles in bigger films such as Jack Niedźwiadek (1993) and W sercu Afryki (1993) followed shortly after.Following high school graduation in 1994 from Harpeth Hall, a Nashville all girls school, Reese decided to put her acting career on hold and attend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. However, her collegiate plans were shortly dashed when she accepted roles to star in two major motion pictures: Strach (1996), alongside Mark Wahlberg, and Spojrzenie mordercy (1996) with Kiefer Sutherland. Although neither film was a huge box-office success, they did help to establish Reese as a rising starlet in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and better film roles. Those bigger roles came in movies such as Miasteczko Pleasantville (1998), Wybory (1999) and Szkoła uwodzenia (1999).Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy, Legalna blondynka (2001). The movie was huge box-office smash and established Reese as one of the top female draws in Hollywood. The next year, she scored a follow-up hit with Dziewczyna z Alabamy (2002), which went on to gross over $100 million dollars at the box office. In 2006, she took home the best actress Oscar for her role as June Carter Cash... in the Johnny Cash biopic, Spacer po linie (2005). On the late 2000s and early 2010s, Reese continued to star in more romantic comedies, such as Cztery gwiazdki (2008) and Skąd wiesz? (2010). In December 2010, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the year 2014, she produced both Zaginiona dziewczyna (2014) and Dzika droga (2014), for which she got nominated for best actress Oscar again for her role as Cheryl Strayed.show more