Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Reese won the Academy Award as best actress for playing gospel singer June Carter Cash in the 2005 movie Walk the Line. Witherspoon had already made a name for herself with roles in a series of unsettling dramas including Fear (1996), Freeway (1996), Cruel Intentions (1999), and American Psycho (2000).

As a comic actress, she won top reviews as a scheming high school politician in the 2000 comedy Election opposite and the next year had a hit with Legally Blonde, starring as a ditzy Harvard law student. Walk the Line, the movie that won her the Oscar, was a biography of June Carter Cash's husband Johnny Cash who starred by Joaquin Phoenix. Witherspoon's other films include Sweet Home Alabama (2002), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and Just Like Heaven (2005).

Her future movies include Rendition (2007) and Sammy (2008).

In 1999, she married actor Ryan Phillippe, whom she met at her 21st birthday party. They announced their separation in October 2006. They have two children, 7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon.