
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, born on the 22nd of March, 1976 is an American actress. Her numerous awards 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 people around the globe in 2005 and in. Forbes also named her one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in the year 2019. Forbes named her the world ?Ts highest-earning actress in 2021. Her estimated amount of $400 million in her net worth. Witherspoon made her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). In 1999, she was acting as a supporting actor in Cruel Intentions and played the role of Tracy Flick in Election. Her roles in Legally Blonde (2001 and its sequel 2003) and in Sweet Home Alabama (2002 ) earned her more recognition. Her work was critically acclaimed, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing June Carter Cash, in the musical biopic Walk the Line. After a slump in her career with her only box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback by directing and producing Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014), which was nominated again for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Since then, she's been working mostly in the field of television, producing and starring in various female-led literary adaptations for the banner of her company Hello Sunshine. These include Big Little Lies, an HBO drama series (2017-2019), The Morning Show and an Apple TV+ drama series (2019-present) and Little Fires Everywhere (2020). The first, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She also produced the movies Gone Girl (2014), and Where the Crawdads Sing (222). She is a member of the Children's Defense Fund's board and was named Global Ambassador for Avon Products in 2007. In this role, she also serves as chair honorary of Avon Foundation's charitable foundation devoted to women's issues.
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