Renée Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger (Katy (Texas), april 25, 1969) is an American film actress. In 2004, she won an Academy Award for her supporting role in Cold Mountain, after they earlier also was nominated in 2002 (for Brdiget Jones' Diary) and 2003 (for Chicago). They also won more than twenty other acting awards, including a BAFTA Award for Cold Mountain, Golden Globes for Nurse Betty, Chicago and Cold Mountain and a National Board of Review Award for Jerry Maguire . ==Biography[ Edit] == Renée Zellweger studied English at the University of Texas at Austin. Here she discovered her love of acting. After graduation she did auditions for movies. They got under the other rolls in the movies Reality Bites and The Return of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Her first main roles were in independent productions as Love and a .45and The Whole Wild World, with which they noticed at the alternative public.

In 1996 followed the big break with Jerry Maguire. In this film she played Tom Cruise's sweetheart. The film was very successful, both with the critics and at the public.Next, they are starring in a wide variety of movies. In Nurse Betty from 2000, she plays a waitress who falls in love with a soap character. She was awarded the Golden Globe for best actress in a Comedy.

The following year came Bridget Jones ' Diary, the film adaptation of the bestseller of the same title. For her role as Bridget Jones came to Renée Zellweger many pounds.She got for the role for a best actress Oscar nomination . The second Oscar nomination came in 2002 for Chicagothe musical, based on the Broadway musical of the same name.

In 2003, she played in Cold Mountain with Jude Law and Oscar winner of 2002, Nicole Kidman. For this role she received her third Oscar nomination, this time for best supporting actress. Eventually she won this one as well, after three years in a row to be nominated.

On 9 May 2005, she married country singer Kenny Chesney, after earlier relationships with, among others, George Clooney,- White Stripesfrontman Jack White, Jim Carrey and Rory Cochrane. On 15 september of the same year asked Zellweger an annulment, which was granted in december 2005. From december 2009 to March2011 was she and Bradley Cooper. ==Filmography[ Edit] ==