Biography
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

You're Cordially Invited
2025
as Margot
When two weddings are accidentally booked on the same day at the same venue, each bridal party is challenged with preserving their family's special mo...

You're Cordially Invited
2025
Producer
When two weddings are accidentally booked on the same day at the same venue, each bridal party is challenged with preserving their family's special mo...

Meet Me in Rome
2024
Executive Producer
Ready to risk it all for love, three women travel to Rome to become leading ladies in their very own reality rom-com. Daily script deliveries guide th...

June
2023
as Self
Until Reese Witherspoon’s Oscar-winning portrayal of her in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, most contemporary audiences were unfamiliar with Jun...

Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah
2023
Executive Producer
Follows Wynonna Judd's life as she continues with her next chapter after Naomi Judd's passing.

Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
as Self (voice)
With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mar...

Your Place or Mine
2023
as Debbie
When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love...

Meet Me in Paris
2023
Executive Producer
Three single friends travel to Paris for ten days for the journey of a lifetime and in search of true love. From 'meet cutes' at the Luxembourg Garden...

Your Place or Mine
2023
Producer
When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love...

Something from Tiffany's
2022
Producer
One woman's life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.

Minions & More Volume 2
2022
as Rosita (voice)
This collection of 11 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franchise: Mower Minions (2016); Yellow Is the New Black...

Where the Crawdads Sing
2022
Producer
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instan...

Fair Play
2022
Executive Producer
Inspired by Eve Rodsky's NYT bestselling book, the documentary FAIR PLAY takes a deep look at domestic inequity. By making the invisible care work his...

Sing 2
2021
as Rosita (voice)
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti...

Come Home
2021
as Rosita (voice)
During the holiday season, Angie, a pack's mother, gets stranded by a blizzard and winds up backstage at the variety show studio. She then gets a chan...

Friends: The Reunion
2021
as Self
The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories, uncontrolla...

Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
as Self
The Banks Family reunites 25 years later for a very special event to benefit World Central Kitchen.

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music
2020
as Self
A music driven tribute to the late indie filmmaker Lynn Shelton.

Becoming
2020
as Self
Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others.

My Darling Vivian
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of John...

Lucy in the Sky
2019
Producer
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that...

This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry...

A Wrinkle in Time
2018
as Mrs. Whatsit
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Election - Reese Witherspoon
2017
as Self
Extra from Election (1999) Criterion Release. Short interview with star Reese Witherspoon about production of the film.

Home Again
2017
as Alice Kinney
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

Gunter Babysits
2017
as Rosita (voice)
Gunter offers to watch all of Rosita's 25 piglets for the night, trying to prove he's the best babysitter ever.

Sing
2016
as Rosita (voice)
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.

Everything Is Copy
2015
as Self
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Hot Pursuit
2015
as Officer Rose 'Coop' Cooper
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian bea...

Hot Pursuit
2015
Producer
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian bea...

Inherent Vice
2014
as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

9 Kisses
2014
as Girl at Costume Party
2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.

Wild
2014
as Cheryl Strayed
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Wild
2014
Producer
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Gone Girl
2014
Producer
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he m...

The Good Lie
2014
as Carrie Davis
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern w...

Devil's Knot
2013
as Pam Hobbs
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Mud
2013
as Juniper
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...

Monsters vs Aliens Stories
2013
Join B.O.B. and your favorite mega-monster squad — including Susan (aka Ginormica), Link and Dr. Cockroach — as they battle mutant pumpkins and zombie...

Dreamworks Spooky Stories
2012
as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
In these spooktacular stories, your favorite DreamWorks characters from the blockbuster hits Shrek and Monsters vs. Aliens return in these chilling ta...

This Means War
2012
as Lauren
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

Water for Elephants
2011
as Marlena Rosenbluth
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces ...

How Do You Know
2010
as Lisa Jorgenson
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triang...

Legally Blondes
2009
Producer
Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and ...

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
2009
as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan...

Monsters vs Aliens
2009
as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The m...

Four Christmases
2008
as Kate
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bu...

Rendition
2007
as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u...

Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line
2006
as Self
A documentary about the life of Johnny Cash and the making of Walk the Line (2005).

Penelope
2006
as Annie
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate...

Penelope
2006
Producer
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate...

Just Like Heaven
2005
as Dr. Elizabeth Masterson
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts t...

Walk the Line
2005
as June Carter
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis...

Vanity Fair
2004
as Becky Sharp
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a ...

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
as Elle Woods
Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog's relatives are being used as cosmetic test...

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Executive Producer
Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog's relatives are being used as cosmetic test...

Sweet Home Alabama
2002
as Melanie Smooter
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
as Cecily Cardew
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

Legally Blonde
2001
as Elle Woods
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading t...

The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
as Serena (voice)
The adventures of a young Trumpeter swan who cannot speak. With the help of a human boy and the love of his family and friends, Louie discovers his ow...

Little Nicky
2000
as Holly
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kin...

American Psycho
2000
as Evelyn Williams
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his i...

Election
1999
as Tracy Enid Flick
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more dem...

Best Laid Plans
1999
as Lissa
Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really...

Cruel Intentions
1999
as Annette Hargrove
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. I...

Pleasantville
1998
as Jennifer
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

Overnight Delivery
1998
as Ivy Miller
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful, so he sends her a letter, but then finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package...

Twilight
1998
as Mel Ames
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

Freeway
1996
as Vanessa Lutz
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride b...

Fear
1996
as Nicole Walker
Nicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything els...

S.F.W.
1994
as Wendy Pfister
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to the...

Jack the Bear
1993
as Karen Morris
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of ...

A Far Off Place
1993
as Nonnie Parker
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
as Cassie Robbins
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother...

Wildflower
1991
as Ellie Perkins
One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive st...

The Man in the Moon
1991
as Danielle "Dani" Trant
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and C...
Run, Rose, Run
N/A
Producer
A young woman comes to country music's capital city to pursue her music-making dreams. The source of her heart-wrenching songs is a brutal secret she ...
Mrs. Claus
N/A
Producer
Plot still unknown.
The Cactus
N/A
Producer
An unexpected pregnancy at 45 causes a reserved woman to rethink the structured life she has created for herself and leads her on an unconventional jo...

The Thing About Jellyfish
N/A
Producer
A young girl becomes convinced the drowning of her best friend was actually caused by the sting of a rare jellyfish.
Twelfth Knight
N/A
Producer
A film adaptation of the Alexene Farol Follmuth bestseller Twelfth Knight
Maybe Next Time
N/A
Producer
A woman relives the same day over, trying to keep her family and career from imploding as she attempts to save her husband’s life.