The latter performance also earned Reese Witherspoon
an Independent Spirit Award nomination as well as Best Actress
honors from the National Society of Film Critics, the Kansas
City Film Critics Circle, and the Online Film Critics Society.
Reese Witherspoon made an acclaimed feature film debut in Robert
Mulligan's The Man in the Moon. She soon starred in Mikael Salomon's
A Far Off Place and in Diane Keaton's Lifetime telefilm Wildflower.
At the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Reese Witherspoon's fearless
and funny performance in Matthew Bright's independent feature
Freeway attracted considerable attention.
Reese Witherspoon's other major film credits
include Andy Tennant's blockbuster Sweet Home Alabama, Oliver
Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest, Mary Harron's American
Psycho, Roger Kumble's Cruel Intentions, Gary Ross' Pleasantville,
and Robert Benton's Twilight.Playing nearly all of his scenes
opposite Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy enthuses, "She's
extraordinary - professional to a T, but with no boundaries.
She's prepared for every scene, and is concerned with getting
it right. She doesn't behave like a 'movie star'; there's no
airs with her." Reese Witherspoon has made special guest
appearances on three of television's most popular series: Friends
and, in voiceover, The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Reese
Witherspoon's next stars as music legend June Carter Cash, opposite
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, in James Mangold's Walk the
Line.
