Her breakthrough role was in Legally Blonde (2001), where she played Elle Woods, a sorority queen who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend by attending Harvard Law School.
The romantic comedy put Witherspoon on the map and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, she’s now one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.
The A-lister is known for producing several female-led adaptions and in 2017, she took on the role of executive producer for the HBO drama series Big Little Lies.
The show, starring Nicole Kidman, Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, and Zoë Kravitz, follows a group of women in Monterey, California, who become entangled in a murder investigation.
The HBO drama has been critically praised, with its first season receiving 16 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, of which it won eight.