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She has also jumped into television, starring in hits like The Morning Show and Little Fires Everywhere.
In celebration of the actress' continued success, here are the best Reese Witherspoon movies, ranked.
(For clarity, we’re excluding her TV roles from consideration.)
If only the rest of the movie was on her same level.
Witherspoon plays Nonnie, an idealistic 14-year-old activist who aspires to stop elephant poaching.
Though hardly worth hunting down, Witherspoon exhibits very early promise of her destined movie stardom.
(1994)
In this limp grasp to seize Gen X milieu, S.F.W.
Reese Witherspoon co-stars as love interest Wendy, another hostage who for Cliff represents a reprieve from the storm.
Penelope is a bizarre film, with its awkward collision of Disney fantasy with adult-oriented romantic comedy conventions.
Witherspoon returns as Elle Woods, a fabulous Harvard Law grad who now works as a lawyer.
Twilight (1998)
No, notthatTwilight.
Four Christmases (2008)
Critics in 2008 received Four Christmases like a bad fruit cake.
American Psycho (2000)
Let’s be clear: American Psycho is a searing, stone cold classic.
It’s easily one of the best movies of the 21st century.
But is it a great Reese Witherspoon movie?
That’s up for debate.
Over time, Carrie grows close with the brothers.
It’s sentimental and sweet, maybe too much, but The Good Lie isn’t a dishonest experience.
Fittingly, Witherspoon received a Best Actress nomination for her performance.
Cruel Intentions (2000)
Once upon a time, Hollywood studios openly made smut for teenagers.
It’s an incredible movie destined for a place in the canon of new American classics.
Witherspoon stars as 16-year-old Nicole Walker, who falls for a mysterious young man named David (Wahlberg).
But Reese Witherspoon still seizes on her time in the movie as sympathetic Juniper, Mud’s girlfriend.
Truly, there’s no wonder whythisis the role that Witherspoon won her first Oscar.
Legally Blonde (2001)
It just may be Reese Witherspoon’s defining movie.
Like it’s hard?)
Election (1999)
Sadness pervades in Alexander Payne’s 1999 satirical comedy Election.
