Renee Kathleen Zellweger

Renee Kathleen Zellweger is a daughter of Kjellfrid Andreassen, a former midwife and nurse in Norway. She was born April 25 1969, in Katy. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is an engineer from Switzerland. The couple got married in 1963. Renee has a brother called Drew Zellweger, a marketing executive who was born on February 15 in 1967. Renee got interested in acting at the age of 14 when she was working in the drama club. She took an acting course at University of Texas (Austin) and began to think about acting as a profession. She was determined to act after she graduated, but Hollywood can be hard to enter. Renee decided not to quit Texas and auditioned at Houston for roles. Matthew McConaughey was another Hollywood newcomer who she met filming Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: The Next Generation (1994). Renee was aware that he was working on a project and auditioned. She was offered the role in Love and the 45 (1994). The role was a huge success and earned her enough praise that she decided to move to Los Angeles. Her big break came with another part in The Whole Wide World (1996). Cameron Crowe was busy casting his next film Jerry Maguire (1996),starring Tom Cruise. Crowe was looking into the actresses Bridget Fonda (Camden Diaz), Winona Ryder (Winona Ryder) and Marisa Tomei. Then he came across Zellweger's performance at The Whole Wide World (1996). The audition was conducted by Zellweger to ensure that the actress was in fact his Dorothy Boyd. Renee continued her great success by releasing small independent films. She was praised again from critics, and was assured that she was able to reenter large-budget Hollywood films. Meryl Streep was her co-star in One True Thing (1998). She also starred alongside Jim Carrey in Me, Myself & Irene (2000) and began to be romantically involved with Carrey in the following year. In the role of the title character in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001).