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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father is a surgeon and her mother a nurse and college professor. She is a direct descendant of Scottish-born John Witherspoon, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Her father worked for the United States Military and lived in Germany for four years, thus Reese lived there with her parents. She was later raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a brother. She graduated from an all girl's high school in Nashville. Although she had already dabbled in acting, she enrolled at Stanford University in California to study literature. She left after her freshman year to pursue and acting career.

Her first role outside of commercials was in a TV movie, Wildflower. She was also cast for The Man On The Moon at age fourteen in the lead role. She won critical praise for her performance in the film. She later starred in Election and most famously in Legally Blonde, and Legally Blonde 2. Her salary for the second Blonde film was fifteen million. This made her one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Her most critically acclaimed role, however, was as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. She won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a SAG for best actress for this role.

She became engaged to actor Ryan Phillippe in 1998. Soon after, the couple starred together in the box office hit Cruel Intentions. They were married in 1999. They have two children together, a daughter, Ava Elizabeth, a son Deacon, born October 23, 2003. She loves motherhood and she and her husband are known to be very involved in their children's lives.

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