Photo SpecialBecoming... Reese Witherspoon
See how the Vanity Fair star went from Nashville schoolgirl to Hollywood A-lister. By Serena Kappes
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OLD SOUL
Witherspoon got her acting start in a commercial at age 7, and won her first movie role seven years later in 1991's critically acclaimed Man in the Moon. "I've always been serious about work," says Witherspoon (in 1993). Concurs Andy Tennant, who directed her in the 1992 TV movie Desperate Choices, "She was, at 15, far more grown-up than I was."
