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REESE WITHERSPOON
Name:
Reese Witherspoon. Birth Name: Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon.
Height: 5'. 2". Nationality: American. Birth Date: March 22,
1976. Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Occupation: Actress.
Education: Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(majored in English Literature). Husband: Ryan Phillippe (actor; married
on June 5, 1999 in Charleston, North Carolina). Father: John Witherspoon
(doctor). Mother: Betty Witherspoon (doctor; professor). Brother:
John Draper Witherspoon (born in 1973). Daughter: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe
(born on September 9, 1999). Claim to fame: as Annette Hargrove in Cruel
Intentions (1999). Agent: C/O International Creative Management, 8942
Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, Ca 90211, USA.
BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Reese Witherspoon is known for choosing her roles carefully. In a business that often focuses on (high) salaries, this actor opts for artistic value, and she’s earned audience and critical respect for her trouble.
The photogenic Witherspoon
began appearing in commercials and taking on modeling jobs at age seven until,
at age 11, she won a 10-state talent search and left her hometown of Nashville,
Tennessee, to accept a significant part in 1991's The Man In The Moon. She was
immediately cast in the 1991 TV movie Wildflower, then Desperate Choices: To
Save My Child (TV - 1992), Jack the Bear (1993) and SFW (1994). Education
subsequently became Witherspoon’s priority as she entered Stanford University to
major in English literature. Until that time she had studied mostly via
correspondence on film sets. Films won out, when two years later, in 1996, the
Stanford degree was put on hold for Fear, Freeway (for a Catalonian
International Film Festival Best Actress award), and Overnight Delivery. High
profile roles in Twilight (1998), Pleasantville (1998 - Movieline Young
Hollywood award), Cruel Intentions (1999) and Best Laid Plans (1999) followed.
Witherspoon briefly returned to television to make a guest appearance on the
primetime comedy, Friends, but it was another return, this time to modeling,
that made her “very big” in Hollywood when her six-story high image in a GAP
advertisement graced Sunset Boulevard. Literal largeness aside, the actor’s most
recent film role, in Election (1999), has earned her by far the most acclaim --
the National Society of Film Critics’ Best Actress award, a Golden Globe
nomination, a Los Angeles Film Critics’ award nomination, an Online Film
Critics’ Society award, a National Society of Film Critics’ award, and an
Independent Spirit award. Busy with all of that on-camera, 1999 was a banner
year off-camera, as well, as Witherspoon wed fellow actor Ryan Phillippe and
gave birth to daughter, Ava. The couple appeared opposite one another in Cruel
Intentions, but first met in 1997 at Witherspoon’s 21st birthday party. Coming
up are opportunities for Witherspoon to take her career to yet another level.
There are acting roles, of course, (in Desert Blue and American Psycho) and she
is slated to not only star in, but produce Slow Motion. Her hope is to one day
be a screen writer. Moviegoers can look forward to an eclectic and high caliber
mix from this likeable star. She knows how to pick ‘em.
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