Since 2015, Witherspoon co-founded a Southern apparel store called Draper James.
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Is just 9 years younger than Laura Dern, who played her mother in Wild (2014).
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Co-founded the film production company "Pacific Standard" with Australian partner Bruna Papandrea in 2012. First books optioned were, "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and "Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found" by Cheryl Strayed.
Performs the audiobook version of Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird. In Four Christmases (2008), she appears with Sissy Spacek; who performed the audiobook of To Kill A Mockingbird; and Robert Duvall, who played Boo Radley in the film.
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Her parents separated in 1996 when she was age 20. They still remain close.
She has worked with three actors who have played comic book characters. She worked with Tobey Maguire who played Spider-Man. She worked with Tom Hardy who played Bane and she worked with Christian Bale who played Batman.
Honoring Dolly Parton, of whom she is a huge fan, at the Kennedy Center Honors TV special aired on December 26, 2006. [December 2006]
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Returned to work 7 months after giving birth to her son Tennessee in order to begin filming The Good Lie (2014).
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Considers Meryl Streep's performance in Sophie's Choice (1982) as the greatest female performance of all time. Witherspoon also states that she was influenced by Streep.
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Was 8 months pregnant with her son Tennessee when she completed filming on Devil's Knot (2013).
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 36, a son Tennessee James Toth on September 27, 2012. Child's father is her 2nd husband, Jim Toth.
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Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her son Deacon in order to begin filming Walk the Line (2005).
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 27, a son Deacon Reese Phillippe on October 23, 2003. Child's father is her 1st husband, Ryan Phillippe.
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Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ava in order to begin filming her guest appearance on Friends (1994).
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 23, a daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe on September 9, 1999. Child's father is her 1st husband, Ryan Phillippe.
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Revealed in the 84th Academy Awards montage that her favorite movie is Overboard (1987).
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Won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in 2006, for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005). Funnily enough, Witherspoon had already played another Carter family member before; she played Mother Maybelle Carter (June Carter's mother) in her fourth grade play.
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Rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car on September 7, 2011 while jogging in Santa Monica, California. Was treated for minor injuries before being sent home. Received a quarter-inch scar on her forehead that she hides with her bangs.
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She was honored with the MTV Generation Award at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, being the second female in the history of the show to receive the award, following Sandra Bullock who received the award one year earlier.
Her bridesmaids at her wedding included her best friend Heather Rosenfield, daughter Ava Phillippe, and her two young nieces.
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Married Jim Toth on March 26, 2011, in a marquee on her ranch in Ojai, California, wearing a custom-designed gown by Monique Lhuillier, before 120 guests. Eighty white doves were released just moments after the couple said "I do".
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(December 28, 2010) Announced her engagement to boyfriend Jim Toth, having been in a relationship with him since February 2010.
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(December 1, 2010) Was awarded the 2,425th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by James L. Brooks and James Mangold, accompanied by her children, Ava and Deacon Phillippe, and boyfriend Jim Toth.
The dress she wore at the Golden Globe Awards in 2006 was also worn by Kirsten Dunst at the Golden Globe Awards in 2003.
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Is the second actress to win the best actress Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first was Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
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Ranked #40 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
Was approached by a few companies to record music after she provided her own singing voice for Walk the Line (2005).
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Was the first person to host Saturday Night Live (1975) after the September 11 terror attacks.
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Neither she nor her ex-husband, actor Ryan Phillippe, use their real first names - Reese's first name is Laura, Ryan's first name is Matthew.
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Chosen as "Favorite Female Film Star" by People magazine (2004).
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She was a gymnast for seven years when she was younger.
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Her son is named after former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Deacon Phillippe, a distant relative of her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.
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Started children's acting classes at a community college at the age of seven. She was taking adult acting classes by the age of nine.
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As a child, she appeared in her local Sunday paper modeling kids' track suits and such. She said that it was creative for her. She was paid $50 a day.
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Ryan proposed to her in December 1998 while the couple was vacationing at The Planter's Inn in Charleston, South Carolina.
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She collects antique linens and is crazy about old embroidery.
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As extra credit for a high school class, she worked as an office production assistant for the film Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). Director Carl Franklin paid homage to her by featuring Legally Blonde (2001) in the film Out of Time (2003).
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Ranked #1 on E!'s Hollywood's Hottest Blondes (2003)
Her wedding ring is an early 1990s Neil Lane, Asscher-cut-diamond, and there are only a few like it in the world.
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She has English, with smaller amounts of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Dutch, ancestry. She is said to be a relative of John Witherspoon, a Gifford, Scotland-born Presbyterian minister who attended Haddington Grammar School, obtained his Master's degree from Edinburgh University in 1739, and was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Steve Dontanville from the William Morris Agency is still her agent. They got together after The Man in the Moon (1991).
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Her daughter, Ava, is named after her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe's, grandmother.
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Named one of E! 2002 "Entertainers of the Year".
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Her Gap ad appeared on a six-story-high building on Sunset Boulevard.
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She lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a young child.
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Has been named one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" along with Eminem and Kelly Osbourne.
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She appeared in a television commercial when she was 7 for a local Nashville florist.
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Has moved her production company, Type A Films, to Universal Pictures. Has signed a two-year first-look production pact with Universal. The studio has already picked up a romantic comedy pitch, Sports Widow (2010), for her to star in and produce.
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Reese is her mother's maiden name.
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She was a cheerleader in high school and a debutante.
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She won the "Ten State Talent Award" at the young age of 11.
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Has appeared at #22 in Entertainment Weekly's Most Powerful List.
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She runs a production company called "Type A Films" with Debra Siegal
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Attended Harpeth Hall School, a private school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002).
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Named one of E!'s "Top 20 Entertainers of 2001".
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Chosed as one of People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of 2001".
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Her mother, Betty, has a Ph.D. in pediatric nursing and her father, John, is a surgeon.
Refused the lead roles in two horror movies: Scream (1996) and Urban Legend (1998).
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Shortly after she started acting, she had an audition for a role in Cape Fear (1991). She was supposed to meet with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for the audition, but at the time did not really know who they were. On the plane, she was talking to the man next to her about her audition, and the man started to rave to her about De Niro and Scorsese. This made her so nervous that she completely blew the audition and the role eventually went to Juliette Lewis.
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Majored in English Literature at Stanford University; on leave from her studies as of 1996.
