Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon

Actor (b. 1976)
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The ThumbScore for Reese Witherspoon (69.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 37 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Reese's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

37
Movies
69.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Audiences rate Reese Witherspoon’s films lower than 68% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): American Psycho (Plex, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Cruel Intentions (YouTube, Roku Channel, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Legally Blonde (Kanopy) · Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (Kanopy) · Just Like Heaven (Hoopla) · The Man in the Moon (Tubi) and 16 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Matthew McConaughey (3)Garth Jennings (3)Josh Lucas (2)Scarlett Johansson (2)Taron Egerton (2)

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various 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. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest women in America with an estimated net worth of $440 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in Cruel Intentions, and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election.

She gained wider recognition for playing Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for starring in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005). Following a career downturn, during which her sole box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback by producing and starring as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014), which earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily in television, producing and starring in several female-led literary adaptations under her company Hello Sunshine. These include 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). For the first of these, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

Born 1976-03-22 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

On ThumbScore, Reese Witherspoon appears in 37 films with an average audience score of 69.6%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Reese Witherspoon movie, ranked by audience score

American Psycho
American Psycho
2000
👍 89%
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions
1999
👍 88%
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde
2001
👍 84%
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
👍 81%
Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven
2005
👍 80%
Fear
Fear
1996
👍 80%
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama
2002
👍 79%
Walk the Line
Walk the Line
2005
👍 78%
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon
1991
👍 78%
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
👍 77%
Sing
Sing
2016
👍 76%
Mud
Mud
2013
👍 76%
Sing 2
Sing 2
2021
👍 75%
Pleasantville
Pleasantville
1998
👍 74%
Wild
Wild
2014
👍 73%
Freeway
Freeway
1996
👍 71%
Devil's Knot
Devil's Knot
2013
👍 70%
The Good Lie
The Good Lie
2014
👍 69%
Monsters vs Aliens
Monsters vs Aliens
2009
👍 69%
Home Again
Home Again
2017
👍 69%
S.F.W.
S.F.W.
1995
👍 68%
Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit
2015
👍 67%
Penelope
Penelope
2007
👍 67%
Twilight
Twilight
1998
👍 66%
Four Christmases
Four Christmases
2008
👍 65%
Overnight Delivery
Overnight Delivery
1998
👍 65%
Rendition
Rendition
2007
👍 64%
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants
2011
👍 64%
This Means War
This Means War
2012
👍 63%
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice
2014
👍 63%
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
2004
👍 63%
Best Laid Plans
Best Laid Plans
1999
👍 62%
Your Place or Mine
Your Place or Mine
2023
👍 58%
Election
Election
1999
👍 56%
How Do You Know
How Do You Know
2010
👍 52%
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
2018
👍 49%
You're Cordially Invited
You're Cordially Invited
2025
👍 48%