What are the best Reese Witherspoon performances of all time?

By YPB Team

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.

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.

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.

Election (1999)

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

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.

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.

Vanity Fair (2004)

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

Just Like Heaven (2005)

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

Four Christmases (2008)

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

Sing (2016)

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

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.