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Reese Witherspoon Wiki Biography

• Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born into the world on 22nd March 1976, in New Orleans, Louisiana USA and cases plunge from one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, She is a well-known entertainer, the champ of such renowned honors as Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA. 
• More, she possesses a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
• Acting isn’t the lone wellspring of her pay, however, as Reese Witherspoon is likewise a skilled maker. 
• She has been dynamic in the entertainment world since 1991. 
• Is this staggering blonde rich? 
• It has been assessed that the current net worth of Reese Witherspoon is $80 million. 
• It has likewise been accounted for that she has procured $28 million of every 2010, $32 million out of 2009, and $25 million out of 2008. 
• No big surprise that having such income her resources incorporate rich Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid SUV esteemed $75,000, Mercedes Benz E-Class esteemed $55,000, and Brentwood domain valued at $14 million. 
• To begin from the earliest starting point, at seven years old Reese was chosen to partake in a TV program, and this prompted her advantage in acting. 
• She was fruitful at school, likewise being an individual from the artists uphold group. 
• Both Reese Witherspoon’s folks were clinical experts, nonetheless, she appeared on the big screen in the film “Man on the Moon” (1991) playing a 14-year-old provincial young lady who is enamored with her neighbor. 
• Her exhibition was adulated by pundits and she was designated for the honor. 
• The exact year she featured close by Patricia Arquette and in the movie “Wildflower” (1991) coordinated by Diane Keaton. 

Reese Witherspoon Quick Info

Reese Witherspoon Trademarks

1. Blonde hair and blue eyes
2. Smooth voice with a strong southern accent
3. Expressive face
4. Mostly plays chipper-type women convinced of their own successful destiny

Reese Witherspoon Quotes

• When you look good, you feel good. I know that’s what Elle Woods says, but it’s true!!
• My grandmother was a quintessential southern lady who didn’t leave the house without being somewhat put together. She taught me it doesn’t matter what’s going on in your life, you’ve got to show your best self to the world.
• [on Johnny Depp] — have to say probably Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street (1987). I just had a really major crush on him. I used to pull pictures out of Teen Beat and put them on my wall. I don’t think he knows. I’m not sure it would faze him: I’m sure he’s heard that quite a bit.
• If you are not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them.
• [on the Academy Awards] It’s funny that it all becomes about clothes. It’s bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it’s all about your dress. You can’t get away from it.
• People want to make you easily identifiable with every woman in America, to be this very likable woman in a romantic comedy. And it’s really hard for me. I just don’t see myself as the girl everybody likes. I never have been and I don’t know how to be that person.
• I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I’m very sorry for my behavior.
• When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car. I learned that for sure.
• [on storing her Oscar] I have it out [at home] with the kids artwork… I think it’s great when they hold it and dress it up.
• There’s always going to be somebody younger or sexier. That’s why I like to say, and it’s become my famous line, “Funny doesn’t sag.”.
• When I was a question on Jeopardy! (1984), that’s when I felt famous.
• [on roles resembling the title character in Penelope (2006)] I like this girl because she is a bit of a badass. I grew up watching movies with people like Barbara Stanwyck and, sometimes, I get frustrated that there aren’t a lot of great female characters out there that young women can look at and go, “I want to be like that.” I go to movies and yell at the women on-screen, “Shoot him; just shoot him.” I mean, why does the guy always have to shoot him?
• I like work. If it’s not hard enough, I try to make it harder. I like the process of being daunted by it, tackling it, and knowing I can do it (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• [on the harsh standards played on women by Hollywood] It’s one of those endless competitions, but it’s like running a race toward nothing. There’s no winning. You’re never going to win the thin race. You’re never going to win the pretty race. You’re never going to win the smart race. You’re never going to win the funny race. I just want to be the best version of myself I can be. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• [on asserting herself, even with her employers] They want people they can push around. I was the girl who was always asking, “Why? Yeah, I know you want me to do that – but why?”. I always thought people wanted to hear my opinions. ns] But I gave them anyway. It’s just blind self-confidence. I get like a little terrier about things. My mother says I should have been an attorney. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• [on struggling to be taken seriously in the industry] Even now, people want to marginalize me. They want to attribute all my success to teenagers seeing my movies. I really resent it when people say, “It’s just a genre film; it’s a teen comedy.” It takes a lot of work to make these things have heart and resonance so they’re not just empty, disposable confections. But I don’t give a damn about other people’s perceptions, because I’ll show them. For women in this business, ascendancy is always a battle. It’s scrape and claw. I just try to stick to my guns and respect myself. I want to take the ingénues aside and say, “Value yourself! It’s okay if you have opinions!”. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• [on how she handles people who disagree with her] I’ve learned the art of ignoring people. When people give you some piece of direction you don’t like, you just nod and ignore it. Just don’t do it! Most people want to be heard and acknowledged, anyway. Just do what you want to do. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• [on being criticized after admitting she and then-husband Ryan Phillippe have gone to couples therapy] Since when is self-improvement a negative? Why wouldn’t I be interested in psychology? I like to read a lot of psychology books. I’m obsessed with child behavior; I would love to be a child psychologist. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• I’m wary of what goal I set because then I’ll have to accomplish it. (Vanity Fair – September 2004 – “Regally Blonde” by Leslie Bennett)
• What gets me is how many women – young women – give up their power and their sense of self. Thinking they’re going to get more out of life if they take off their clothes and objectify themselves, instead of functioning on the principle that they’re smart and capable, that you can be an actress and not be on the covers of T&A magazines. I’m flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do that. It blows my mind. (Marie Claire – September 2005)
• I feel certain people are systematically ripping [feminism] down because of their lack of regard and their ignorance about what the women before us had to go through. (Marie Claire – September 2005)
• I don’t think these women are stupid. I think they’re selling a very marketable personality: Wouldn’t it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn’t have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, “I’m stupid, isn’t it cute?” makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, “My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it’s fun to be stupid.” Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It’s not okay. (Marie Claire – September 2005)
• I feel like there’s a race being run in Los Angeles for some unattainable goal – to be the best, the skinniest, the most beautiful. I just admit that that’s what I’ll never be. (Marie Claire – September 2005)
• I have cellulite. I have stretch marks. I feel intimidated by Victoria’s Secret. Hollywood is one of those endless competitions, but it’s like running a race toward nothing. There’s no winning. You’re never going to win the pretty race. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be.
• Many people worry so much about managing their careers but rarely spend half that much energy managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
• I’m pretty conservative or old-fashion, I should say, it’s how I grew up. I think you have to let your children be individuals, but you have to set boundaries. Ryan and I have similar ideas about all of it, you really have to support you partner in the things that are important to them and hold the line together.
• I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.
• (Part of her Oscar speech) I am so blessed to have my family here tonight. My mother and my father are here. And I just want to say thank you so much for everything, for being so proud of me. It didn’t matter if I was making my bed or making a movie. They never hesitated to say how proud they were of me. And that means so very much to a child. So thank you, Mom and Dad. I want to say thank you to my wonderful husband and my two children who should be going to bed. And thank you for loving me so much and supporting me. And I want to say that, my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman to have strength and self-respect and to never give those things away. And those are a lot of qualities I saw in June Carter Cash. People used to ask June how she was doing, and she used to say — “I’m just trying to matter.” And I know what she means. You know, I’m just trying to matter, and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. And you have all made me feel that I might have accomplished that tonight. So thank you so much for this honor.
• What gets me is how many women – young women – give up their power and sense of self. Thinking they’re going to get more out of life if they take off their clothes and objectify themselves, instead of functioning on the principle that they’re smart and capable, that you can be an actress and not be on the covers of T&A magazines. I’m flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do that. It blows my mind.
• I feel like there’s a race being run for some unattainable goal – to be the best, the skinniest, the most beautiful. I just admit that’s what I’ll never be.
• [on dual careers and marriage]: Marriage and family come before everything. You don’t want to make a movie at the cost of your relationship.
• Life isn’t just about you: It’s about family and friends and giving back. – as quoted in Woman’s World magazine 2-21-06.
• [on doing her own singing in Walk the Line (2005)] The director came to us and he said “No, I really want you guys to learn to sing. To learn to play instruments and I want you to record an album.” and that is what… and I just absolutely was just gob-smacked and I said, “I don’t know. I can’t do that.” And he said, “Well, I want you to try.” Now that’s the thing for me. If someone asks me to try, I will always try.
• [on trying to get out of the role of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005)] I did. I called my attorney. My agent. My manager. I said, “You know y’all, you’re serious about this?”. I’m really. I gotta get out of this. Like, can’t they call LeAnn Rimes? I mean she’s good.
• [When asked about the ways she is discriminated against] I get discriminated against in three ways: I get discriminated against because I’m blond, I get discriminated against because I’m an actress and I get discriminated against because I’m from the South.
• I do think things were meant to happen. I’m just this little girl from Tennessee, and here I am today. I think a lot of things are just out of your hands.
• I was thinking about why I make movies, and I know why. Life is hard. It’s nice to go escape and have a good time at the movies. If I can give people a movie about hope, love and the future, then I’ve done my job.
• There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day. – as quoted in the December 7, 2004 issue of Woman’s World.
• [on husband Ryan Phillippe] I don’t think I can imagine a better guy than the one I’ve ended up with.
• It’s nice to come home to what’s real. – E! Revealed with Jules Asner (2001)
• Attending an all-girls school has its advantages, there are no inhibitions. You can walk to school with your zit cream on and your hair in rollers and nobody cares.
• While making Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003), I had like 50 outfit changes. It was great! I’m really into the whole “girlie” thing, it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.
• I’m not perfect! I’m human. I make mistakes. But I try to be as conscious as I can about things I should be. If I’m going to do something commercial and mainstream and made for the masses, I just believe you can make those kinds of films with quality – and good ideas and good intentions. There’s a lot of negativity out there.
• As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that’s about how much you put yourself out there. It’s not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy and never let our public persona get out of hand.
• People want to try and move you into a place where you can be easily identifiable by every woman in America – to be this very likable woman in a romantic comedy. And it’s really hard for me. I just don’t see myself as the girl that everybody likes. I never have been and I don’t know how to be that person.
• I grew up in Tennessee. We didn’t know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.
• [on the movie business]: The battles that we face in this business aren’t financial, but they are moral. And I certainly think that the longer you can keep your values, and your morality intact, and keep your head on your shoulders about what is important at the end of the day, you can get the most out of this business and really emerge with something wonderful.
• [on Pleasantville (1998)]: We were thrilled for just the three nominations we got, but obviously it’s a little sad. I went through so many press junkets with people saying they loved it. And Joan Allen was robbed but she can’t get nominated every year. She’s an inspiration for every young actress. She has that calm and reserve about herself and makes you think she appreciates the normal things of every day. Then she transforms into this character that’s so different.
• [on motherhood and her baby]: I feel good, I’m proud of Election (1999) and very proud of this [her child]. It couldn’t be a better time. It’s always the right time when it happens. You make it the right time.
• [on Ryan Phillippe]: I’m lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I’ll ever have.
• [on how she choose the films she will be in]: I have a weird process, but the main thing is like this: I hear her voice in my head. There are a lot of wonderful scripts my agents can’t believe I pass on, but I do because I can’t hear the voice. It doesn’t appeal to me then. I’m really careful. Unless I hear the voice, I can’t do it.
• [on having a baby]: Obviously, this isn’t the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.

Reese Witherspoon Important Facts

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• Considers Wild (2014) to be her best film and her best performance.
• As of August 2014, Witherspoon owns an estate in Nashville, Tennessee.
• She has worked with 2 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Robert Benton and James L. Brooks.
• Since 2015, Witherspoon co-founded a Southern apparel store called Draper James.
• Is just 9 years younger than Laura Dern, who played her mother in Wild (2014).
• 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.
• Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for Walk the Line (2005). The others, in chronological order, are Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
• 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.
• Her parents separated in 1996 when she was age 20. They remain close.
• Her favorite films include Splendor in the Grass (1961), Overboard (1987), The Impossible (2012), Bad Grandpa (2013), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
• 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.
• Was the 128th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Walk the Line (2005) at The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) on March 5, 2006.
• The debut of her perfume, “In Bloom” by Avon (2009).
• Honoring Dolly Parton, of whom she is a huge fan, at the Kennedy Center Honors TV special aired on December 26, 2006. [December 2006]
• Returned to work 7 months after giving birth to her son Tennessee in order to begin filming The Good Lie (2014).
• 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.
• Was 8 months pregnant with her son Tennessee when she completed filming on Devil’s Knot (2013).
• 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.
• Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her son Deacon to begin filming Walk the Line (2005).
• 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.
• Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ava to begin filming her guest appearance on Friends (1994).
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 23, a daughter Ava Elizabeth Phillippe on September 9, 1999. The child’s father is her 1st husband, Ryan Phillippe.
• Revealed in the 84th Academy Awards montage that her favorite movie is Overboard (1987).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Has played Robert Pattinson’s mother in Vanity Fair (2004), but his scene was cut from the end product. In Water for Elephants (2011) the two of them play lovers.
• Amongst the guests at her wedding were Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Alyssa Milano, Isla Fisher, Selma Blair and Salma Hayek.
• Her bridesmaids at her wedding included her best friend Heather Rosenfield, daughter Ava Phillippe, and her two young nieces.
• 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”.
• (December 28, 2010) Announced her engagement to boyfriend Jim Toth, having been in a relationship with him since February 2010.
• (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.
• Was considered for the role of Amy Stanton in The Killer Inside Me (2010), but Kate Hudson was cast instead.
• Auditioned for the role of Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins (2005), but Katie Holmes was cast instead.
• Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, having met him on the set of Rendition (2007) (January 2007-November 2009).
• Campaigned for the role of Christine Collins in Changeling (2008), but lost the role to Angelina Jolie.
• Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award, and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo’Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).
• In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $7 million.
• Was named highest-paid actress in Hollywood by The Hollywood Reporter in 2007.
• (August 1, 2007) Named the first-ever Avon Global Ambassador and will serve as the Honorary Chairman of the Avon Foundation.
• Mentioned in the song “High School Never Ends” by Bowling for Soup, as “the prom queen”.
• Is a vegetarian.
• Filed for divorce against the husband, Ryan Phillippe, on November 8, 2006.
• Was originally cast in the lead role in Bunny Lake Is Missing (2012), but backed out a few weeks before shooting began.
• Best friends with Selma Blair, Chelsea Handler, and Renée Zellweger.
• Announced on October 30, 2006, that she has separated and would file divorce papers against her husband, Ryan Phillippe, after seven years of marriage.
• Ranked #34 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006” supplement.
• A distant cousin of Daniel Morton
• The dress she wore at the Golden Globe Awards in 2006 was also worn by Kirsten Dunst at the Golden Globe Awards in 2003.
• 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).
• Ranked #40 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005” special supplement.
• Dyed her hair brown for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005).
• Her performance as Tracy Flick in Election (1999) is ranked #45 on Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• The year she won her Oscar for Walk the Line (2005), her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe appeared in the movie that won Best Picture, Crash (2004).
• She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
• Has appeared in four movies bearing the names of songs: Jack the Bear (1993), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Just Like Heaven (2005), and Walk the Line (2005).
• Was approached by a few companies to record music after she provided her own singing voice for Walk the Line (2005).
• Was the first person to host Saturday Night Live (1975) after the September 11 terror attacks.
• 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.
• Chosen as “Favorite Female Film Star” by People magazine (2004).
• She was a gymnast for seven years when she was younger.
• Her son is named after former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Deacon Phillippe, a distant relative of her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.
• 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.
• As a child, she appeared in her local Sunday paper modeling kids’ tracksuits and such. She said that it was creative for her. She was paid $50 a day.
• Ryan proposed to her in December 1998 while the couple was vacationing at The Planter’s Inn in Charleston, South Carolina.
• She collects antique linens and is crazy about old embroidery.
• 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).
• Ranked #1 on E!’s Hollywood’s Hottest Blondes (2003)
• Has an older brother: John D. Witherspoon.
• Her wedding ring is an early 1990s Neil Lane, Asscher-cut-diamond, and there are only a few like it in the world.
• 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.
• Steve Dontanville from the William Morris Agency is still her agent. They got together after The Man in the Moon (1991).
• Her daughter, Ava, is named after her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe’s, grandmother.
• Named one of E! 2002 “Entertainers of the Year”.
• Her Gap ad appeared on a six-story-high building on Sunset Boulevard.
• She lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a young child.
• Has been named one of Rolling Stone’s “People of the Year” along with Eminem and Kelly Osbourne.
• She appeared in a television commercial when she was 7 for a local Nashville florist.
• 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.
• Reese is her mother’s maiden name.
• She was a cheerleader in high school and a debutante.
• She won the “Ten State Talent Award” at the young age of 11.
• Has appeared at #22 in Entertainment Weekly’s Most Powerful List.
• She runs a production company called “Type A Films” with Debra Siegal
• Attended Harpeth Hall School, a private school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002).
• Named one of E!’s “Top 20 Entertainers of 2001”.
• Chosed as one of People magazine’s “25 Most Intriguing People of 2001”.
• Her mother, Betty, has a Ph.D. in pediatric nursing and her father, John, is a surgeon.
• Was considered for the role of Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996), which went to Claire Danes.
• Refused the lead roles in two horror movies: Scream (1996) and Urban Legend (1998).
• 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.
• Majored in English Literature at Stanford University; on leave from her studies as of 1996.

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