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Renee
Zellweger Biography
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| Name
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Renee
Zellweger |
| Birth
Name : |
Renee Kathleen
Zellweger |
| Occupation
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Actress |
| Date
of Birth : |
April 25th,
1969 |
| Place
of Birth : |
Katy, Texas |
| Sign
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Taurus |
| Education
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Journalism
(University of Texas) |
| Nationality
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American |
| Fan
Mail : |
C/O United
Talent Agency
9560 Wilshire Blvd. #500
Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 |
Up until she appeared opposite Tom
Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996), Renee Zellweger's name was almost
unknown outside of Hollywood and the independent film circuit. The
beauty and natural ability that Zellweger exhibited as Cruise's love
interest, caught the attention of critics and audiences alike.
Though she was passed by at that year's Oscars, she won several
other awards for her work, including the title of "best
breakthrough performer" by the National Board of Review.
Of Swiss and Norwegian parentage, the willowy strawberry blonde
actress was born in Katy, Texas, a tiny town located near Houston.
The town was so small that it possessed neither cable television nor
a movie theater. As a result, Zellweger reportedly did not see her
first art film until she was a student at the University of Texas in
Austin. Her career at University of Texas was an exceptional one: a
regular on the dean's list, she graduated a year early with a BA in
Radio, Film, and Television. While in college, Zellweger took an
acting class and discovered a knack for performing; following
graduation she made her feature film debut with a bit part in
Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993).
She had her first real role playing a wacked-out waitress in Love
and a .45 (1994), for which she won her first Independent Spirit
Award nomination; she won a second nomination for The Whole Wide
World (1996), earning additional acclaim at various film festivals.
Following the tremendous success of Jerry Maguire, Zellweger went on
to prove herself as a versatile actress able to play roles ranging
from an ambitious journalist who temporarily shelves her career to
care for her mother in One True Thing (1998) to a rebellious
Hassidic Jew in Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies (1998). She then
exhibited a capacity for romantic comedy in The Bachelor (1999),
starring as the long-suffering girlfriend of a serial commitment
phobic (Chris O'Donnell).
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