
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22 1976) is an American actress. She has been awarded numerous awards such as an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Time magazine and Forbes both listed her as one of the 100 most influential people on the globe in 2007 and 2015 respectively. Forbes declared her the world's most successful actress in 2021. Her estimated fortune of $400 million. Witherspoon made her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). In 1999, she appeared as a supporting actress in Cruel Intentions and played the role of Tracy Flick in Election. Her parts in Legally Blonde (2001 and its sequel 2003) and Sweet Home Alabama (2002 ) earned her more recognition. The film was critically acclaimed and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing June Carter Cash, in the musical biopic Walk the Line. Following a decline in her career, the only box office hit was Water for Elephants (2011). Witherspoon returned to the screen when she produced and starred in Wild (2014). She received another Academy Awards nomination for Best Actress. Since then, she has been mostly involved in TV productions and has starred in a variety of female-led adaptations of literary works. They include Big Little Lies, an HBO drama series (2017-2019), The Morning Show as the Apple TV+ drama series (2019-present) and Little Fires Everywhere (2020). The Primetime Emmy Award was won for Outstanding Limited Series in the first episode of the series. She also wrote and directed the films Gone Girl (2014), and Where the Crawdads Sing (222). She is on the board of the Children's Defense Fund and was appointed Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007. In this capacity, she also serves as chair honorary of Avon Foundation's charitable foundation devoted to women's issues.
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