
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, born on March 22, 1976, is an American actress. Her many awards include an Academy Award, British Academy Film Award and Primetime Emmy Award. She has also won two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people around the globe in 2006 and 2015. Forbes also named her one the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in the year 2019. Forbes declared her the world's highest-earning actress in 2021. Her estimated fortune of $400 million. Witherspoon made her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). In 1999, she was an actress who played a supporting role in Cruel Intentions and in the role of Tracy Flick in Election. She gained wider recognition for the role of Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel in 2003, and for her part in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She received acclaim from critics and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing June Carter Cash, in the musical biopic Walk the Line. After a slump in her career in which her only box office hit was the romantic comedy Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback with the production and role of Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014) that resulted in her being nominated for a second time for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily on television, producing and starring in a variety of female-led adaptations of literary works under the banner of her company Hello Sunshine. These include Big Little Lies, an HBO drama series (2017-2019), The Morning Show as an Apple TV+ drama series (2019-present) and Little Fires Everywhere (2020). In the very first she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She has also produced the film adaptations of Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022).Witherspoon also owns a clothing business, Draper James, and she is involved with women's and child advocacy organizations. She is on the board of the Children's Defense Fund and was honored to be the chair of the Avon Foundation's foundation's charitable cause for women in 2007.
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