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Reese Witherspoon
ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN McCABE
(MARCH 22): The Oscar-winning actor is also a producer, author and mogul.
SCREEN DEBUT: At 14, Witherspoon was cast as the lead in 1991’s The Man in the Moon, a coming-of-age drama.
YOUNG TALENT: Critics and audiences took note of Witherspoon in ’90s films Pleasantville and Cruel Intentions. She earned her first Golden Globe nomination as an ambitious high schooler in 1999’s Election.
FOREVER FRIENDS: In 2000, Witherspoon guested on Friends as Rachel’s sister. She and Jennifer Aniston now costar in (and coproduce) Apple TV series The Morning Show.
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR: In 2025, Witherspoon released Gone Before Goodbye, a thriller cowritten with Harlan Coben. “This is a big, new frontier for me,” she told the BBC. “It just made me feel like, Gosh, creativity doesn’t stop at any one age. It just goes on and on.” —Whitney Matheson
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Illustration by Sean McCabe: Bottom credits: Reese Witherspoon primary photo: Todd Owyoung/NBC/Getty Images. Clockwise from top left: Chelsea Lauren/Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images; Miramax/Everett Collection; HBO/Everett Collection; Universal/Everett Collection; MGM/Everett Collection; Amazon/Everett Collection; Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection. Jones: Monica Schipper/Getty Images; Prinze Jr.: Noam Galai/Getty Images; Manning: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images; Astley: Simon Ackerman/WireImage/Getty Images; Crawford: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images; Cranston: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images