Reese Witherspoon
- Born: 22 Mar, 1976
Blonde, poised and versatile, actress Reese Witherspoon went from Southern debutante to a driven Hollywood hot ticket after getting her start in the 1991 feature "The Man in the Moon". Cast thanks to a 10-state talent search, the inexperienced actress had only local commercials to her credit, but she gave a shining performance on her first time out, playing with heartbreaking poignancy a fourteen-year-old girl in love with the boy-next-door dating her sister. It was immediately apparent from her performance that the newcomer could handle three-dimensional, passionate characters with both manners and moxie. That same year Witherspoon made her TV acting debut in the Diane Keaton-directed cable movie "Wildflower" (Lifetime, 1991), playing a girl who discovers an epileptic ...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father : ear-nose-and-throat surgeon
- mother :
- brother : born c. 1972
- daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe: born on September 9, 1999
- Michael Bomboy: Witherspoon's first high school love
- Jeremy Sisto: dated after working together in the 1992 TV-movie "Desperate Choices"
- Chris O'Donnell: reportedly dated briefly
- Mark Wahlberg: co-starred in 1996's "Fear"
- husband Ryan Phillippe: dated from c. 1997; met at her 21st birthday party; acted together in "Cruel Intentions" (1999); married on June 5, 1999
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