10/10/07 Reese Witherspoon2007-10-11 05:39:14
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), simply known as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Her first role was in the movie The Man in the Moon (1991), followed by several moderately successful family oriented comedies and dramas in the early to mid 1990s, and then the teenage thriller Fear (1996), where she became something of a teen idol. Witherspoon emerged as a young woman in Election (1999), as an obsessive, stressful, vindictive, and overachieving teenage girl determined to win everything she sets out to do. Witherspoon acquired her breakout role in Legally Blonde (2001), as a fun-loving blonde, a role she reprised in a sequel. Witherspoon received worldwide attention for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005), a role that earned Witherspoon critical praise, media attention and an Academy Award for Best Actress. More recently, Witherspoon starred in Penelope, alongside Christina Ricci, set for an early 2008 release date.In 2005