Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest women in America with an estimated net worth of $440 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in Cruel Intentions, and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election. She gained wider recognition for playing Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for starring in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005). Following a career downturn, during which her sole box-office 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), which earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily in television, producing and starring in several female-led literary adaptations under her company Hello Sunshine. These include the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present), and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020). For the first of these, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She has also produced the film adaptations Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and the miniseries adaptation Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). Witherspoon also owns Reese's Book Club and a clothing company, Draper James. She is involved in children's and women'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 of the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women's causes.
114 acting credits
Acting · 114
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Friends
1994
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
King of the Hill
1997
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Idol
2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Mindy Project
2012
The Morning Show
2019
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Cruel Intentions
1999
The Drew Barrymore Show
2020
The Oscars
1953
People's Choice Awards
1975
Chelsea
2016
American Psycho
2000
Sing 2
2021
TRL
1998
Sing
2016
Big Little Lies
2017
Legally Blonde
2001
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
Rove
1999
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Monsters vs Aliens
2009
Today
1952
Fear
1996
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Hot Pursuit
2015
The Muppets
2015
Little Fires Everywhere
2020
Just Like Heaven
2005
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Mud
2013
Inherent Vice
2014
Sweet Home Alabama
2002
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
Wild
2014
Walk the Line
2005
Minions & More 2
2022
This Means War
2012
Little Nicky
2000
Pleasantville
1998
Friends: The Reunion
2021
Get Organized with The Home Edit
2020
The Man in the Moon
1991
Nature Is Speaking
2015
Revealed with Jules Asner
2001
My Kind of Country
2023
You're Cordially Invited
2025
The Good Lie
2014
Rendition
2007
Four Christmases
2008
Your Place or Mine
2023
Penelope
2007
Election
1999
Devil's Knot
2013
Water for Elephants
2011
A Wrinkle in Time
2018
Shine On with Reese
2018
Freeway
1996
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003
F1: The Academy
2025
Home Again
2017
Twilight
1998
How Do You Know
2010
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
2009
This Changes Everything
2019
Family Recipe Showdown
2025
A Far Off Place
1993
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music
2020
Wildflower
1991
My Darling Vivian
2020
Freedom: A History of Us
2003
Vanity Fair
2004
Jack the Bear
1993
S.F.W.
1995
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
Everything Is Copy
2015
Monsters vs Aliens Stories
2013
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
Overnight Delivery
1998
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
Fierce Queens
2020
Best Laid Plans
1999
Dreamworks Spooky Stories
2012
Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line
2006
Tiny Trailblazers
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Come Home
2021
Becoming
2020
June
2023
9 Kisses
2014
Gunter Babysits
2017
I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash
2005
Legally Blonde 3
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Wish List
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Election - Reese Witherspoon
2017