Popular in the early 2000s, American actress Reese Witherspoon, thanks to a female comedy about a smart blonde, continues to successfully act in films. In addition, she is now a successful producer. She does a lot of charity work and three children.
Childhood
The future Hollywood star, actress Reese Witherspoon was born March 22, 1976 in Louisiana, New Orleans, in a family of doctors. A good otolaryngologist, her father, was a military doctor, and her mother was a pediatrician. Immediately after the birth of the girl, the family moved to Wiesbaden - to the new place of service of the father. There Reese lived her first four years.
When the family returned from Germany, they began to live in Nashville, Tennessee. Dad, having risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, became a civilian doctor, and my mother taught nursing at the university.
Naturally, little Reese planned to become a doctor, like her parents, and even at first did not think about the profession of an actress. She studied well at a school for girls, and loved to read. With great trepidation regarding books, she later said that she was going crazy in a bookstore, and her heart beats often, often because she wants to buy everything.
First experiences
As an actress, Reese Witherspoon first showed herself at the age of 7, the girl was spotted and shot in a commercial for a local flower company. Soon after the first shooting experiments, she was enrolled in courses at an acting studio. Probably due to diligence in studying at 11 years old, Witherspoon became the winner of the contest of young talents of her native state.
The first real film in the biography of actress Reese Witherspoon appeared in 1991. At the age of 15, she starred in the romantic drama Man on the Moon, playing Dani, a fourteen-year-old girl in love. She forever remembered the first phrase she uttered in the movie: "I love Elvis so much ...". For this role, she was first nominated for an award as the best young actor.
After graduating from school with good grades, she entered the prestigious Stanford University, where she began to study English literature. Moving to the second year, Reese dropped out of school, deciding to try to make a career as an actress.
Long haul
In the year of her film debut, Witherspoon appeared in yet another film, starring Ally Perkins in the movie Wild Flower, where Patricia Arquette, then popular, played the main role.
In 1993, she starred in the adventure film "Captured by the Sands", playing the main character Nonny, who, fleeing the bandits, walks with her boyfriend through the Kalahari desert. In the same year, she received the Young Actor Award for her supporting role in the film Jack Bear.
The path to the first success of actress Reese Witherspoon was long enough. For five years she starred in small roles in low-budget films, which were not very popular with viewers. She simply lacked an acting flair.
Reese refused the offers of filming in the youth films “Scream”, “City Legends”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, which became very successful at the box office. There were a lot of actresses like Reese Witherspoon in Hollywood, while she lost to them in the competition.
First successes
The general public began to recognize her after the release of the comedy film "Pleasantville" in 1998, in which she starred with another young talent, Toby Maguire, the future Spider-Man. In the filmography of actress Reese Witherspoon, this was the first film nominated for an Oscar, and in three categories at once. The picture in receiving awards did not succeed, but the actress herself received the Young Hollywood Award for her main female role.
The following year, she got the role of Annette Hangrove - a girl whom the main character falls in love with in the movie Brutal Games, based on the 18th-century French novel Dangerous Liaisons. The action of the tape was postponed in our time. The picture did not get much success at the box office, but the youth audience received it well. The game of young actors was remembered by the audience. True, the heroine Reese was not too warmly received by the audience because of her excessive correctness.
In 2000, she starred in the small role of Jill Green, the spoiled sister of the heroine Jennifer Aniston, in the famous series Friends. She also appeared in a cameo role in the comedy film Nicky the Son of the Devil. In the same year, Reese first tried herself in the voice acting of the cartoon.
Forever blonde
Real cinematic fame came to actress Reese Witherspoon in 2001. She showed herself perfectly in the image of Elle Woods in the comedy “Legally Blonde”. In fact, she played herself - a beautiful and smart blonde who is studying at a prestigious university.
In fact, the whole picture rested on the improvisation of an actress who portrayed a somewhat eccentric girl, but who, nevertheless, always gets her way. Critics praised the excellent acting, and the actress received MTV and Golden Globe awards. For work in "Legally Blonde," actress Reese Witherspoon received her first millionth fee.
The picture also received its awards, becoming the best film of the year according to the same versions of MTV and Golden Globe. With a budget of $ 18 million, he collected 141.7 million at the box office.
Already a producer
After the resounding success of the image of a blonde in law, she repeated it in the romantic comedy "Stylish little thing", for which she already received five times more. The film and actress Reese Witherspoon have not received cinematic awards. But the picture was a great commercial success. With a sufficiently large budget for a youth girl’s movie of 38 million dollars, he collected more than 180 million at the box office.
In 2003, actress Reese Witherspoon gladly agreed to star in the second installment of Blonde in Law. The script was written by Amanda Brown - author of the book of the same name. The film has now become a romantic comedy in which the heroine is married at the end of the picture.
In this film, Reese first appeared as a producer. She earned $ 15 million. True, they did not receive film awards for it, and the audience did not have much success. The financial results were not brilliant, but the costs paid off doubly.
On the crest of success
In 2004, in the filmography of actress Reese Witherspoon, the most starring role appeared, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress. After casting in the movie “Cross the Line”, where her character was June Cash, the wife of country singer and composer Joni Cash, she continued to appear in the film “Vanity Fair”.
She was unable to meet the living Carter Cash, who had died by this time. Reese herself performed the vocal part in front of a live audience, she later recalled that it was a very difficult part of the role. To do this, she had to learn to sing professionally for six months. The image created by Reese was favorably received by critics, except for the Oscar, she received several more film awards.
The next few films, which were released after 2 years, were unsuccessful, she starred in the supporting role in the fairy tale Penelope, then in the thriller and comedy, and again disappeared for two years. In 2010-2011 actress Reese Witherspoon appeared on the big screen in three paintings, where she played women who fell into a love triangle with two men.
Last news
In subsequent years, she continued to act in films every year in 2-3 films. In 2015, she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the movie Wild, where she played a woman who decided to go on a hike 1,100 miles long in order to alleviate mental suffering after her mother’s divorce and death. In 2018, the science-fiction film Break the Time was released, where Witherspoon played Mrs. Chtotut, who was not very successful.
The production company Type A Films, owned by actress Reese Witherspoon, has made about 20 films, including the television prequel Blondes in Law. She was the face of Avon Products and honorary chairman of the charity foundation of this cosmetics company.
Personal life
After a few minor novels, Reese met her future husband Ryan Philip at her birthday party. Then they starred together in the movie Cruel Intentions. The romance was stormy, and shortly after the premiere of the film, they were engaged and announced that they would get married soon. A year later, in June 1999, Reese and Ryan really got married.
In September of the same year, their daughter Ava Elizabeth was born. Reese was not filming at this time. She spent a lot of time at home, preferring a calm and comfortable family life. She even began to think about continuing her studies at the university. But problems soon began - Ryan stopped receiving roles and began to abuse alcohol. With great effort Reese managed to extinguish the conflicts, and in 2003, the son of Deacon was born to the couple. In 2006, they nevertheless reported a separation and officially formalized the termination of family relations the following year.
In early 2010, Reese began a romantic relationship with Jim Tot - a Hollywood agent. A year later they got married. In the fall of 2012, they had a son, Tennessee James Tot.
She devotes a lot of time to the family. Ava's daughter is already studying at the university, but has not yet decided who she wants to become. Photos of actress Reese Witherspoon and Ava are very popular in the media because they are very similar.