Reese Witherspoon has been a consistent presence on our screens for years, giving us iconic characters from Election’s Tracy Flick to Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods to Walk the Line’s June Carter Cash (the latter of which earned her an Oscar). As the actress approaches a milestone birthday, she’s taking a sweet look back at her decades in Hollywood and exploring how she’s grown personally and professionally over time.
It’s hard to believe that Reese Witherspoon is turning 50 on March 22, or that she’s been entertaining us for so long after starting her acting career at just 15 years old (1991’s The Man in the Moon). Spending the majority of your life in the entertainment industry will undoubtedly shape who you are, and the actress took a trip down memory lane in an Instagram post that began:
