Renee Zellweger

In three years she has become one of the most sought-after actresses. She has been nominated three times for an Oscar, she has achieved a statuette, and she has just shot the sequel to the film that launched her to fame: Bridget Jones’s Diary . The criticisms that came from Great Britain at that time are curious now, where they did not see with good eyes that the heroine of Helen FieldingIt was played by an American. However, producer Eric Fellner was clear: “When Renée Zellweger walked into the room where we were doing the interviews, we saw that she was Bridget.” He was right, Zellweger borders on her the role of neurotic corny and depressed. So much so that for the second part they could only count on her. But good old Renée has learned quickly and she has demanded 21 million euros to gain weight by ten kilos that her role has required.

Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969 in Katy, a small town in Texas. She is the daughter of Emil, a Swiss engineer, and Kjellfrid, a Norwegian nurse. She was very restless from a young age and in high school she was part of the Thespian society and the Drama Club. She was also a sports enthusiast, especially basketball and gymnastics. And though she once dreamed of making the Olympic gymnastics team, after graduating in 1987, she forgot her craving for sports and headed to Austin to brush up on her English and study journalism. She there she earned a living as a waitress while she received acting classes at the university. She also participated in plays and eventually traveled to Dallas to audition for small roles in movies, where she met actors like Ethan Hawke ., Winona Ryder or Matthew McConaughey .

After finishing her degree and with her degree in Radio, Film and Television under her arm, Zelly, as her friends call her, landed her first film role in Dazed and Confused (1993). She moved to Los Angeles and signed with the Beverly Hills company Gallin/Morey & Associates, the same company as Nicole Kidman . From then on, she has played roles for Reality Bites , 8 Seconds , and Empire Records , and has done television work. Turning point was his film From her The Whole Wide World (1996). Renée received accolades at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Actress award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. cameron croweHe then signed her to accompany Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire that year . For her role as Dorothy she was showered with awards. Two years later she accompanied Meryl Streep in Things That Matter and the following year she seduced Chris O’Donnell in The Bachelor (1999) .

Stardom was knocking on the door. With her perfect performance in Chasing Betty (2000) she won the Golden Globe. In the same year she accompanied Jim Carrey –romance included– in Me, Myself and Irene . And the explosion came with Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), where she touched the Oscar. To nail the role, Reneé traveled to London and underwent a vocal exercise program with Barbara Berkery, the speech therapist who had previously “transformed” Gwyneth Paltrow into English for Shakespeare in Love and Emma .

Success did not go to his head: “Los Angeles opens your eyes, it is amazing. She has taught me what I don’t want to be. But each time it was more difficult. After the fabulous musical Chicago (2002) , where she sings, dances and displays an impressive talent, she has become a true star. The Oscar did not fall – the great goddess of the moment, Nicole Kidman, was also nominated – but the praise, prestige and money did… Later, after being part of the female cast of La flor del mal (2002) and “renew” Doris Day in the hilarious and downright kitsch Down with Love (2003), he filmed alongside Nicole Kidman  Cold Mountain(2003). It was there that she took her revenge on Kidman, since her role as an illiterate earned her the nomination and the prize at the Oscars, although it is true that as a secondary actress (what was not secondary is the 15 million dollars she received) . This year she has returned with success thanks to Bridget Jones: I will survive and she is about to premiere Cinderella Man , a boxing game with Russell Crowe .