A look at the career of the privileged daughter of a surgeon and a nurse/college professor who started out in local commercials in Nashville but quickly graduated to Hollywood. Early roles established her as a starlet unafraid to take on edgier parts, and her winning performances in Election, Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama made her a bankable star. On this day we celebrate Reese Witherspoon's birthday. See more in this full movie, "Reese Witherspoon."

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