Renee Zellweger rose to prominence with starring roles in the romantic comedy Jerry Maguire, the drama One True Thing, and the black comedy Nurse Betty, winning a Golden Globe Award for the last of these.
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44 Facts About Renee Zellweger
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Renee Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a loquacious farmer in the war film Cold Mountain.
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Renee Zellweger has since starred as Pam Hupp in the NBC crime miniseries The Thing About Pam.
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Renee Zellweger was a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil-refining business.
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Renee Zellweger was a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas.
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Renee Zellweger attended Katy High School, where she was a cheerleader, gymnast, and debate team member.
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Renee Zellweger subsequently relocated to Los Angeles, a move she had postponed several times because she believed she lacked the talent and experience to be a competitive actor in that city.
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Renee Zellweger came to wider recognition through her role in Jerry Maguire, playing a single mother and the romantic interest of a glossy sports agent.
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Renee Zellweger plays Maguire with the earnestness of a man who wants to find greatness and happiness in an occupation where only success really counts.
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Renee Zellweger plays a woman who believes in this guy she loves, and reminds us that true love is about idealism.
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The film flopped at the box office, but Renee Zellweger was applauded by some critics such as Ebert, who wrote that she gave a "ferociously strong performance".
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Renee Zellweger played a woman, based on author Anna Quindlen, forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother, who is dying of cancer.
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Renee Zellweger won her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but she was in the bathroom when future co-star Hugh Grant announced her name.
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In 2001, Renee Zellweger gained the prized lead role of Bridget Jones, opposite Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, in the British romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Helen Fielding.
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The casting of Renee Zellweger came amid much controversy since she was neither British nor overweight and did not smoke.
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Renee Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real.
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Renee Zellweger took on the role of a former actress serving as a foster mother, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, in the drama White Oleander, for which she received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Drama.
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Renee Zellweger portrayed Roxie Hart in the 2002 musical film Chicago, directed by Rob Marshall and co-starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, and John C Reilly.
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Renee Zellweger earned her second Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Leading Actress, winning her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
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In 2003, following the success of Chicago, Renee Zellweger starred with Ewan McGregor in the little-seen romantic comedy Down with Love, as a woman advocating female independence in the 1950s and early 1960s, and appeared in Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountain, opposite Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, playing a woman who helps a farmer following her father's death.
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The film garnered several award nominations and wins for its actors; Renee Zellweger won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 76th Academy Awards, the 61st Golden Globe Awards, the 10th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the 57th British Academy Film Awards.
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On May 24,2005, Renee Zellweger received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry.
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Renee Zellweger portrayed author Beatrix Potter in the biographical comedy Miss Potter, with Emily Watson and Ewan McGregor.
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Renee Zellweger served as an executive producer as she wanted to get more involved in the production.
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In 2007, Renee Zellweger lent her voice to the animated family comedy Bee Movie and was awarded the Women in Film Crystal award.
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Renee Zellweger produced the made-for-television feature Living Proof, starring Harry Connick Jr.
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Renee Zellweger took on the role of a social worker assigned to a mysterious girl in Case 39, a supernatural thriller she had filmed in 2006.
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Variety remarked: "Truth be told, [Reeves and Renee Zellweger] deserve better than this predictable courtroom drama".
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In Same Kind of Different as Me, a film adaptation of the autobiographical book by the same name, Renee Zellweger starred with Djimon Hounsou, Olivia Holt and Jon Voight, as the wife of an art dealer whose struggling relationship is changed for the better by a homeless man.
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Renee Zellweger played the friend of a New York City singer who gets a life-changing medical diagnosis in the independent drama Here and Now, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Renee Zellweger performed her own vocals in the film and her songs had to be performed in front of a live audience.
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Renee Zellweger's win made her just the seventh actress to win an Oscar in both acting categories and the fourth to win Best Actress after Best Supporting Actress.
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Two and a half years later, in 2022, Renee Zellweger took on her first starring role in network television in the NBC crime drama miniseries The Thing About Pam.
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Renee Zellweger starred as Pam Hupp, who was involved in the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria.
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Renee Zellweger has appeared on the covers and photo shoots of several magazines throughout her career; she appeared on the September 1997 cover of Vanity Fair, and in subsequent years, the list has grown to include Vogue, Detour, Allure and Harper's Bazaar.
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Renee Zellweger ranked number 72 in the "Top 100 Celebrities" list made by Forbes in 2006, and the following year, she was placed at 20 among "the 20 richest women in entertainment", by the magazine.
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Renee Zellweger took part in the 2005 HIV prevention campaign of the Swiss federal health department.
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Renee Zellweger is one of the patrons for gender equality foundation The GREAT Initiative; in 2011 she visited Liberia with the charity.
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Renee Zellweger has owned properties in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Connecticut, and Texas.
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Renee Zellweger is only the fourth actress, after Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, and Cate Blanchett, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress and the seventh actress to win in both categories after Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, Helen Hayes, Streep, Lange, and Blanchett.
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