Her film debut was in the well-received romantic comedy-drama Reality Bites . She first gained widespread attention for her role in the romantic comedy-drama sports film Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise, 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). Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the epic war drama Cold Mountain (2003). In 2010, she starred in the road movie My Own Love Song. After this performance, she took a 5-year hiatus from screen acting.
She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a BAFTA Award; was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009;and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses as of 2007.
Renée Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas. Zellweger is of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), Swiss, and Sami ancestry.Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from Au, a small town in the canton of St. Gallen,Switzerland, and is a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business.Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen),[is a native of Norway. Kjellfrid grew up in Kirkenes and Ekkerøy, and is a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of "lazy Catholics and Episcopalians".
While in junior high school, Zellweger participated in several sports, including soccer, basketball, baseball, and football.She attended Katy High School, where she was a cheerleader, gymnast, speech team member, and drama club member. After high school, she went to the University of Texas at Austin to major in English language. At the beginning, she took a drama class because she needed a fine arts credit to complete her degree: The experience made her appreciate how much she loved acting.During this time, she supported herself by taking jobs as a waitress in Austin, Texas. She said that she earned her Screen Actors Guild card doing a Coors Light beer commercial while in college.Also while in college, she did "a bit part ... as a local hire" in the Austin-filmed horror-comedy My Boyfriend's Back, playing "the girl in the beauty shop, maybe two lines. But the beauty shop [scene] got cut." Zellweger graduated from college in 1991 with a BA degree in English. Her first job after graduation was working in a beef commercial, while simultaneously auditioning for roles around Houston
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