
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born on March 22, 1976) is an American actress. Her numerous accolades include an Academy Award, British Academy Film Award and Primetime Emmy Award. She was also awarded two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine listed her as one of the top 100 influential individuals in the world in both 2006 and 2015. Forbes also named her as one of the 100 most powerful Women of the World in 2019. Forbes named her the world ?Ts wealthiest actress in 2021. Witherspoon is estimated to have a amount of $400 million in her net worth. Witherspoon made her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Her breakout came in 1999 when she played an appearance in Cruel Intentions as well as her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election. Elle Woods, a comedy comedy (2001), and its sequel in 2003, gained her wider recognition. Also, she was in Sweet Home Alabama (2002), a romantic comedy. In 2005, she earned notoriety and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line. After a career decline, in which her sole box office hit was Water for Elephants (2011). Witherspoon returned to the screen when she produced and starred in Wild (2014). She got an additional Academy Awards nomination for Best Actress. Since then, she has been primarily involved in television productions. She has also appeared in several female-led literary adaptations. They include Big Little Lies, an HBO drama series (2017-2019), The Morning Show which is 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 of these series. She has also produced the films adaptations Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022).Witherspoon also owns a clothing line, Draper James, and she is involved in both women's and children's advocacy organizations. She is a member of the board of the Children's Defence Fund and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007. In this role, she also serves as chair honorary of Avon Foundation's foundation for charitable causes that is dedicated to women's issues.
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