Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's highest-paid actresses by 2007. Born and raised in Texas, Zellweger studied English literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Initially aspiring for a career in journalism, she was drawn to acting following her brief work on stage while in college. Following minor roles in Dazed and Confused (1993) and Reality Bites (1994), her first starring role came with the slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). She rose to prominence with starring roles in the romantic comedy Jerry Maguire (1996), the drama One True Thing (1998), and the black comedy Nurse Betty (2000), winning a Golden Globe Award for the last of these. For portraying Bridget Jones in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002), Zellweger gained consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a loquacious farmer in the war film Cold Mountain (2003). She reprised her role as Jones in the sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), and, following a career downturn and hiatus, in Bridget Jones's Baby (2016). In 2019, Zellweger starred in her first major television role in the Netflix series What/If, and portrayed Judy Garland in the biopic Judy, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has since starred as Pam Hupp in the NBC crime miniseries The Thing About Pam (2022).
77 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 77
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
King of the Hill
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Only Murders in the Building
2021
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Oscars
1953
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Goldene Kamera
1984
Rove
1999
Bee Movie
2007
Monsters vs Aliens
2009
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Shark Tale
2004
Rebel Highway
1994
Jerry Maguire
1996
WHAT / IF
2019
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
Chicago
2002
Dazed and Confused
1993
Case 39
2009
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
The Thing About Pam
2022
Cold Mountain
2003
Cinderella Man
2005
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Judy
2019
Reality Bites
1994
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
The Whole Truth
2016
White Oleander
2002
Appaloosa
2008
Empire Records
1995
Down with Love
2003
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1995
8 Seconds
1994
Nurse Betty
2000
Miss Potter
2006
New in Town
2009
Leatherheads
2008
My One and Only
2009
The Bachelor
1999
Murder in the Heartland
1993
Same Kind of Different as Me
2017
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Love and a .45
1994
One True Thing
1998
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
Deceiver
1997
Here and Now
2018
Club Oscar
2005
My Own Love Song
2010
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
2000
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary
1996
The Whole Wide World
1996
Declaration of Independence
2003
The Low Life
1995
Bombshell in Concert
2020
A Taste for Killing
1992
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023
Queen Mimi
2016
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1994
A Price Above Rubies
1998
Making of Chicago
2002
Being Bridget Jones
2020
Phantom Son
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Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew
2014
A Woman in the Sun
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