Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, SAG Award-, and Golden Globe-winning American actress, singer, dancer, and performer.

She’s 39!

She has established herself as one of the highest-paid female Hollywood actors in recent years.

Zellweger was born in Baytown, Texas, an eastern suburb of Houston. Between junior school and high school her family moved to Katy, Texas, a western suburb of Houston. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business. Zellweger’s mother, Kjellfried Irene, is Norwegian-born and of Sami origin. She is a nurse and midwife, and moved to the United States in order to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger described herself as being raised in a family of “lazy Catholics and Episcopalians”. She has an older brother, Andrew, who is a marketing manager working in the wine industry and has his nickname for her – Zelly.

While still in Texas, Zellweger appeared in several films. She appeared in the Bachelor as Anne.In 1993, she made a brief appearance in the comedy-drama film Dazed and Confused, then had a minor role in ABC TV mini series named Murder in the Heartland. The following year, she appeared in Reality Bites, the directorial debut of Ben Stiller and the biopic film 8 Seconds, directed by John G. Avildsen. Zellweger’s first main part in a movie came with the 1994 horror movie Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which she acted alongside Matthew McConaughey.

On May 24, 2005, Zellweger received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal Life:

Zellweger dated Josh Pate, whom she began seeing in November 1996 after the filming of Deceiver. She also was rumored to have dated George Clooney. Her first high-profile romance was with actor/comedian Jim Carrey. The relationship ended in a broken engagement in December 2000. Zellweger notably poked fun at the prior relationship when she ended her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live by reading an entry from her own “diary”, marked “Dear Diary, I can’t believe I am dating Jim Carrey.”

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