What are the best Reese Witherspoon performances of all time?

She made the world love an ambitious sorority president, an Oscar-winning country legend, and a solo hiker healing herself on America's longest trail. Which Reese Witherspoon performance is the greatest?

Legally Blonde (2001)

Witherspoon's Elle Woods is one of cinema's great comedy heroines — a sorority president who enrolls at Harvard Law and dismantles every expectation.

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Walk the Line (2005)

Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of June Carter Cash, matching Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash beat for beat.

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Wild (2014)

Witherspoon earned her second Oscar nomination for her raw, physically committed portrayal of Cheryl Strayed hiking the Pacific Crest Trail alone after personal collapse.

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Election (1999)

Witherspoon is ferociously funny as Tracy Flick, the pathologically overachieving student at the center of Alexander Payne's dark high school satire.

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Cruel Intentions (1999)

Witherspoon plays the innocent Annette Hargrove, the only person who can resist Sebastian Valmont's manipulations, in this stylish update of Dangerous Liaisons.

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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Witherspoon plays a fashion designer torn between her glamorous New York life and the small-town Alabama husband she left behind.

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Vanity Fair (2004)

Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, Thackeray's irrepressible social climber, navigating Napoleonic-era society with wit and ruthless determination.

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Just Like Heaven (2005)

Witherspoon plays the ghost of a workaholic doctor who haunts her old apartment and unexpectedly falls for its new tenant.

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Four Christmases (2008)

Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn play a commitment-phobic couple forced to visit all four of their dysfunctional divorced parents over Christmas.

9/12

Sing (2016)

Witherspoon voices Rosita, a harried pig and mother of 25 piglets who rediscovers her passion for singing in this animated musical spectacular.

10/12

The Morning Show (Series)

Witherspoon is Emmy-nominated as Bradley Jackson, a regional news anchor thrust into the national spotlight after a scandal rocks a flagship morning show.

11/12

Mud (2012)

Witherspoon plays Juniper, the elusive woman at the center of a fugitive's passionate obsession in Jeff Nichols' lyrical coming-of-age drama.

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