Reese witherspoon

At his recently turned twenty-six years old, he chooses his roles carefully. And it is that his thing is not to go tumbling from here to there under the slavery of his Nancy doll physique. Some of her have already taken her refusal for her answer when they have tried to seduce her with flat dim-witted boom girl roles . That enormous self-confidence could well be a defensive reaction: “Being from the South and having blonde hair is not a good combination. Immediately when people see you, they think you don’t have class”.

Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon was born in Nashville (Tennessee) on March 22, 1976. The profession of her parents – he is a surgeon, she a nurse – seemed to herald a future close to medicine. However, after studying high school in her hometown, she went to Stanford University, in California, to study English Literature. Although her university airs did not last long, since she very soon abandoned her degree to dedicate herself to the world of acting. And it is that she, long before, when she was only fifteen years old, she had appeared at a casting to play an extra in the film Summer in Louisiana (1991), the last film directed by the veteran Robert Mulligan. And her interview with the director surprised her so much that Reese unintentionally took one of the leading roles. Since then, she has dedicated her summers to shooting television series, such as Wildflower (1991), alongside Diane Keaton , or Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992).

Her return to the big screen came with A Far Away Place (1993), a Disney family production, and the same year she played a 12-year-old teenager –Reese was 17– in Jack the Bear , alongside Danny DeVito . But it was with Obsessive Passion (1996), where she suffered the violence of a rampant Mark Wahlberg , when her name began to sound strongly. Her commercial success turned her into cannon fodder for teen products and it seemed that the die was cast. Big mistake. The actress did not hesitate to reject the leading roles in Scream , I know what you did last summer and Urban Legend. It was clear that Witherspoon was not selling herself, she wanted juicier roles: “My intention is to be part of films aimed at adult audiences, because I make many films for young people and I want to broaden my record.”

After turning down the female role of Baz Luhrmann ‘s Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare , Reese ventured with the independent film Freeway (1996), for which she garnered critical respect and garnered a few international awards. She later accompanied Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon in At Sundown (1998) and the same year she again achieved notoriety with the acclaimed Pleasantville . But the definitive takeoff of her is due to her next two films: Cruel Intentions and Election , both from 1999. The first is a modern version of Dangerous Liaisons., shot with her husband, Ryan Phillippe , whom she married on June 5, 1999 and with whom she has a daughter, Ava Elizabeth; and the second, a notable comedy for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress.

Precisely, his latest successes are mainly framed in comedy, with the exception of the gruesome American Psycho (2000). There are Little Nicky (2000), where he accompanies the cheeky Adam Sandler , and Legally Blonde (2001), which has been a box office bomb, especially in the United States. In the first weekend alone, this film grossed more than 20 million dollars, two more than it cost, and Reese demonstrated her economic sense by making her debut as a producer thanks to her newly founded company Type A Films. In short, that, legal or not, everything suggests that we have blonde for a while. Still pending release is The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) , a comedy by Oliver Parkerbased on Oscar Wilde ‘s celebrated play , and is currently shooting Sweet Home Alabama , for which she will charge $5 million. In any case, she is clear that Hollywood is not everything: “I want to do my life, and not my job, the best I can. The rest will come by itself.”