The Queen Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).
Face it boys, it’s all about Renee Zellweger being of Norwegian origins. Her mother is originally from the Scandinavian peninsula often referred to as Lapland, which accounts for Renee Zellweger’s distinctly Sami features — namely the squinty eyes and strong cheekbones.Renee Zellweger has a way of making enticing faces that remind us that, although she’s a regular woman, she can switch on the charm on demand. Every woman should come equipped with this feature.
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After appearing in some local commercials in Texas, Renee Zellweger was cast in two television movies: A Taste for Killing (1992) and Murder in the Heartland (1993). Throughout the early ’90s, she continued to appear in a string of B-movies before achieving some renown in Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites (1994), Love and a .45 (1994), and alongside Liv Tyler in Empire Records (1995).It was only after her appearance in Jerry Maguire that Renee Zellweger’s career began a serious ascent, leading to roles in Nurse Betty (2000), Bridget Jones’s Diary and Down with Love (2003). She received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Bridget Jones and Chicago (2002) before winning an Oscar for Cold Mountain in 2003. Not too shabby.In May 2005, she made headlines when she married country star Kenny Chesney in a surprise ceremony. She apparently met Kenny Chesney at a tsunami benefit in January 2005, after having dated Jack White (of the White Stripes) and Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice. By September the two filed for an annulment.Renee Zellweger did voice work for the hit animated flick Bee Movie in ’07, and followed that up with roles in Appaloosa and Leatherheads alongside George Clooney and John Krasinki in 2008.In 2004, Zellweger received her first Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain opposite Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Zellweger has since starred in the sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary – Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, lent her voice to the DreamWorks animated features Shark Tale and Bee Movie, and starred in the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe and Paul Giamatti. On May 24, 2005, Zellweger received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She produced and appeared in Miss Potter, based on the life story of acclaimed author Beatrix Potter, with Emily Watson and Ewan McGregor, released in December 2006.
Zellweger was awarded the Women in Film Crystal award in 2007. In 2008, she starred in the western Appaloosa with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen and the period comedy Leatherheads with George Clooney.In 2008, she produced a film, Living Proof, starring Harry Connick Jr., about the true story of Dr. Denny Slamon. The film, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, premiered in October 2008 on Lifetime Television.In 2009, she starred alongside Chris Noth and Kevin Bacon in the feature film My One and Only, as well as in the film New in Town, and a cameo role in the animated film Monsters vs. Aliens.
Zellweger dated The White Stripes singer Jack White for two years from 2002 to 2004. In addition, Zellweger had a much-publicized, short-lived romance with her Me, Myself and Irene co-star Jim Carrey, to whom she was engaged from 1999 to 2000.On May 9, 2005, Zellweger married singer Kenny Chesney in a ceremony at the island of St. John. On September 15, 2005, they announced their plans for an annulment. Zellweger cited “fraud” as the reason in the related papers. After media scrutiny of her use of the word “fraud”, she qualified the use of the term, stating it was “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character.”In September 2010, it was reported that Zellweger and actor Bradley Cooper had been in a relationship for over a year. On March 18, 2011, People Magazine announced that the two had broken off their relationship.
