Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress. She has been awarded numerous accolades such as an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Time magazine named her one of the top 100 influential people around the globe in the years 2006 and 2015 and Forbes listed her as one of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in the years 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's most successful actress, with an estimated fortune of $400 million.Witherspoon began her career when she was a teenager, and made her film debut with The Man in the Moon (1991). In 1999, she was acting as a supporting actor in Cruel Intentions and also in the role of Tracy Flick in Election. Her parts in Legally Blonde (2001 and its sequel 2003) as well as in Sweet Home Alabama (2002 ) have earned her more attention. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line. After a slump in her career during which her sole box-office hit was the romantic comedy Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback in the form of a producer and star as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014) in which she was nominated again for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily in television, producing and appearing in numerous female-led literary adaptations under the banner of her company Hello Sunshine. They include Big Little Lies (2017-2018), The Morning Show (2019-20) as well as Little Fires Everywhere (2020) All HBO drama series. The Primetime Emmy Award was won for Outstanding Limited Series in the first episode of the series. She also directed the films Gone Girl (2014), and Where the Crawdads Sing (222). She is a member of the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair for the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women's causes.