
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born March 22, 1976. She has received numerous awards including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Time magazine named her one of the top 100 influential people around the globe in both 2006 and 2015 and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in both 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the highest-paid actress in the world, with an estimated total worth of $400 million.Witherspoon began her career as a teenagerand made her debut as a screen actress with The Man in the Moon (1991). In 1999, she was an actress who played a supporting role in Cruel Intentions as well as in the role of Tracy Flick in Election. Elle Woods, a comedy comedy (2001) as well as its sequel in 2003 brought her greater recognition. She also starred in Sweet Home Alabama (2002) which was a romantic comedy. In 2005 she won praise from critics and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line. After a downturn in her career, in which her only box office film success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback by producing and starring as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014) that brought her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Witherspoon has continued to work mostly on television and performed and produced in a variety of female-led literary adaptions under Hello Sunshine. This includes Big Little Lies, an HBO drama series (2017-2019), The Morning Show which is the Apple TV+ drama series (2019-present) and Little Fires Everywhere (2020). The Primetime Emmy Award was won for Outstanding Limited Series in the first episode of the series. She also wrote and produced the film adaptations Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022).Witherspoon also owns a clothing company, Draper James, and she is active in both women's and children's advocacy organizations. She serves on 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.
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