Known for doing starring roles in movies like Legally Blonde (2001), Walk the Line (2005), and Wild (2014), Reese Witherspoon is an Oscar-winning American actress and producer. After making a Hollywood debut as a child artist in The Man in the Moon (1991), Witherspoon went on to appear in films like Pleasantville (1998), American Psycho (2000), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Sweet Home Alabama (2002).

In 2015, this actor-turned-producer launched her own lifestyle brand Draper James.

Early Life
Born Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon to a nurse mother and a physician father, Witherspoon spent her first four years in Germany, due to her father`s transferable job. Once, the whole family shifted to the United States, she went on to attend an all girl`s school. At the small age of seven, she began modeling and also started appearing in advertisements. When she was 14, Witherspoon landed a leading role as a tomboy in the coming-of-age drama The Man in the Moon (1991).

Personal Life
At the age of 21, in 1997, Witherspoon began a romantic relationship with actor Ryan Phillippe and the couple got engaged in 1998. The engagement was quickly followed by a wedding in 1999. Their two children- a daughter, Ava Elizabeth Phillippe was born in 1999, and son, Deacon Reese Phillippe was born in 2003. But unfortunately, trouble in their paradise started surfacing and both of them separated in 2007, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason.

After her divorce in 2007, Witherspoon started dating Jake Gyllenhaal, her Rendition co-star, but the couple parted ways in 2009. In 2011, she tied the knot with Jim Toth, the co-head of motion picture talent at the Creative Artists Agency. They have a son Tennessee James Toth, born in 2012.

Movie Career
As an Actor
In 1996, Reese Witherspoon starred in Matthew Bright`s crime film Freeway, based on Grimm`s fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. For portraying Vanessa Lutz, Witherspoon received rave reviews. In the Following years, she explored a variety of genres in movies like Pleasantville (1998), a fantasy comedy film; Cruel Intentions (1999) a teenage drama film; and American Psycho (2000), a comedy horror film. In Cruel Intentions, Witherspoon starred alongside her former husband Ryan Philippe, who she was married to for nine years.

The beginning of the 21st century saw Witherspoon star in the most path breaking role of her career in the comedy film Legally Blonde (2001). The sleeper hit, directed by Robert Luketic, won immense critical and commercial acclaim. For essaying the role of Elle Woods, the high-flying girl who takes admission in Harvard University to meet her ex, Witherspoon was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. Legally Blonde, along with her stars Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber and Jennifer Coolidge in pivotal roles. She reprised her role as Elle Woods in the sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. Released in 2003, the movie received mostly negative reviews and failed to replicate the success of its predecessor. In between the two movies, Witherspoon appeared in the super hit comedy film Sweet Home Alabama and The Importance of Being Earnest, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde`s legendary play of the same name. Witherspoon subsequently featured as June Carter in the biographical drama film https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/walk-the-line/IEMV000046 Walk the Line, based on the life of country music artist Johnny Cash. The movie opened to great reviews, with Witherspoon bagging all major awards for the best actress like Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

She then starred in films like Rendition (2007), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), This Means War (2012), and Devil`s Knot (2014). In 2014, Witherspoon was a part of another acclaimed biographical drama Wild, adapted from Cheryl Strayed`s 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, the movie garnered positive reviews, with Witherspoon garnering an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In the same year, she also appeared in Philippe Falardeau`s The Good Lie, and Paul Thomas Anderson`s Inherent Vice.

In her solitary release in 2016, Witherspoon featured as a voice actor in the 3D computer-animated musical comedy, Sing, written and directed by Garth Jennings. She her voice to the character named Rosita, a pig who gives her musical dream to become a devoted wife and mother. The film also featuring Matthew McConaughey, Seth McFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, and John C. Reilly received wide positive critical reviews and emerged to be a blockbuster at the box office. Her 2017 release includes Home Again, a romantic comedy, Home Again directed by the debutante Hallie Meyers-Shyer.

As a Producer Reese Witherspoon turned producer with the 2006 fantasy romantic film Penelope and in 2012, she launched her own production house called Pacific Standard. Under Pacific standard, she has produced films like Gone Girl (2014), Wild (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015), out of which she also starred in the latter two.

Television Career
After starring in television films like Wildflower (1991), and Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1993), as a child artist, Witherspoon appeared in a few episodes of King of the Hill (2000), and Friends (2000).