Reese Witherspoon is part of the Forbes ranking of the wealthiest people.
Reese Witherspoon managed to build an amazing career in Hollywood. Starting from a very young age, her first known works of hers were in 1998 when she was part of the Urgent movie by accident, but years later she already achieved her first Golden Globe nomination as best actress for her role of her. Elections. Even so, the role that allowed her to gain fame and popularity was that of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, a film that premiered in 2001.
Since then, she never stopped and built a ladder of constant ascent, later becoming a film and television producer. In 2005 she starred in Johnny and June: Passion and Madness and she won her first Best Actress Oscar, as well as a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Thanks to her incredible career, Reese Witherspoon has just been named the richest actress in the world. This shows that she is very demanding when it comes to closing her contracts and that her talent, commitment, and acting ability gave her the true results.
It was Forbes magazine that assured that the Hollywood star had to occupy that podium, remarking that she has a fortune of 440 million dollars.
According to the publication, much of Reese's estate was thanks to the sale of a majority part of her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone company in 2021. That deal was closed for a sum of 900 million dollars. But that's not all, because since she is still part of 18% of the production company, this continues to give her benefits.
Hello, Sunshine was created by the actress to promote stories led by women, such as Big Little Lies, The Morning Show or Everybody Loves Daisy Jones, among others.
