Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for her role in Big Little Little Lies. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for the role of Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild. She has claimed descent from Scottish-born John Wither Spoon, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, but this claim has not been verified.
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world as of 2019. Time magazine and Forbes named her among the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019. She has claimed descent from Scottish-born John Wither Spoon, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, but this claim has not been verified by the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration ofependence genealogists. She also owns a clothing company Draper James, and she is actively involved in children’s and women’s advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children’s Defense Fund and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women’s causes. In 2000, she co-founded production company Type A Films, which has since merged with Hello Sunshine, a media firm which WitherSpoon also co- founded in 2016. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for her role in Big Little Lies. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for the role of Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild. Wither spoon has also won two Golden Globe Awards for her roles in Sweet Home Alabama and Water for Elephants. Her parents are still legally married, although they separated in 1996. She attended middle school at Harding and graduated from the all-girls’ Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.
She later attended Stanford University as an English major, but left the school prior to completing her studies to pursue an acting career. Her mother, Mary Elizabeth \”Betty\”, earned three degrees in total, including a Ph. D in pediatric nursing, and became a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. Her father was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve, and he was in private practice as an otolaryngologist until 2012. In 2005, she garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the biographical musical film Walk the Line, which won her the Academy Award for Best actress. At age eleven, she took first place in the Ten-State Talent Fair, and considered herself a big dork who read loads of books. She said she is proud of her Episcopalian upbringing, and has said that it gave her a sense of family and tradition. In 2011, she won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her work in the HBO drama series Big Little Little Lies, as well as the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. Her only box-office success was the romantic drama Water forElephants, during which she starred in several critically and commercially unsuccessful comedies. In 2012, she made a comeback by producing and starring as Cheryl Straysed in Wild, which earned her a second nomination for best actress at the Oscars.
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