Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976),[1] known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Witherspoon is frequently cited by media to be one of the most beautiful leading ladies in today's cinema and her off screen life is widely reported.Her first role was in the made for television movie Wildflower (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 a mid 2007 release date.
Actor Ryan Phillippe, and Witherspoon, married in 1999, have two children together: Ava Elizabeth (b. 1999) and Deacon Reese (b.2003). They separated in 2006.
