Renée Zellweger

Academy Award winner (for COLD MOUNTAIN) and three time nominee (for BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY and CHICAGO), Texan Renée Zellweger only took an acting class to ensure graduating with a literature degree from the University of Texas.

Her Academy Award for her role in Cold Mountain was accompanied by a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, a BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress. Directed by Anthony Minghella, the film is about a confederate soldier’s journey home after the American Civil War. Zellweger starred opposite Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.

In addition to her Academy Award nomination for her role in Chicago, Zellweger also won the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Lead Role as well as a 2003 Golden Globe Award for Lead Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Lead Actress.

After some television experience, she made her feature debut while still in Texas in Richard Linklater’s coming of age movie, DAZED AND CONFUSED. Other roles immediately followed, including Ben Stiller’s REALITY BITES, THE RETURN OF THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and MY BOYFRIEND’S BACK.

She starred with Jim Carrey in ME, MYSELF AND IRENE and with Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman in the dark comedy NURSE BETTY. She starred with William Hurt and Meryl Streep in the critically acclaimed ONE TRUE THING and opposite Robin Wright Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer in WHITE OLEANDER.

Zellweger’s breakthrough role was in 1996 in Cameron Crowe’s JERRY MAGUIRE opposite Tom Cruise as a widowed mother who joined sports agent Maguire in his quest for principled representation. She was named best breakthrough performer of 1996 for her performance.

Recently Zellweger has starred with Russell Crowe in CINDERELLA MAN, the story of Depression era boxer Jim Braddock. She played his loving and devoted wife Mae.

Zellweger lent her voice to DreamWorks Pictures SHARK TALE alongside Jack Black, James Gandolfini, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese and Will Smith.

As well as starring as Beatrix Potter in MISS POTTER, Zellweger shoulders responsibilities as executive producer of the movie.

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