Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She is the recipient of numerous 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. Forbes also named her as the world's highest-earning actress in 2021. Witherspoon began her acting career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). She achieved wider recognition for her role in Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She made a career comeback by producing and starring in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present), and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020).