Sweet Home Alaba is a romantic comedy film released by Touchstone Pictures in 2002. Many years have passed since it got to the box office and the actors starred in other films. However, do you sometimes get so curious to find out whether the main characters' careers have plunged or climbed to enviable heights? Here's everything you need to know about the main characters of Sweet Home Alabama.
Sweet Home Alabama: Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon played the role of Melanie Carmichael's successful fashion designer who hid her poor background to marry Andrew Hennings, the son of Kate Hennings, who happened to be the mayor of New York. Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 to John Witherspoon and Betty Witherspoon in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, Dr. John Draper Witherspoon, was a student at the Tulane University medical school. He also served as a lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. Reese's mother Dr. Betty Witherspoon has a total of three degrees, including a doctorate in education. She is a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University.
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Reese Witherspoon was enrolled in the Harding Academy in middle school and graduated from Harpeth Hall School for girls in Nashville. During this time she was a cheerleader. She later attended Stanford University as a major in English studies, but left school before completing her studies to pursue an acting career. The actress, as a model, was responsible for the television advertising of a florist at the age of seven, which spurred her to take acting classes.
In 1991, Reese Witherspoon made her acting debut as Dani Trant in the film "The Man in the Moon". She was just fourteen years old and had just left high school when she was thinking about joining her parents in the medical field. However, a few more appearances in films were enough to get her into an acting career. In 1996 she won the Catalonian International Film Festival award for best actress in the film "Freeway".
Reese has appeared in many major roles in films since her debut. In 1999, she and Alessandro Nivola played the drama thriller "Best Laid Plans", in which she played Lissa, a woman who plans to escape a small cul-de-sac with her lover Nick. In 2001, she played as Elle Woods, a fashion merchandising major who decides to become a law student to follow her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School in the movie "Legally Blonde".
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Her career went back in 2007-2912 when her first marriage ended, but the actress recovered from this little setback and the producer bonus in her acting curriculum vitae. It owns a production company called "Type A Films". She owns a few other businesses, which makes her a serial entrepreneur, and the actress also gives something back to society.
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On her 21st birthday in March 1997, she met actor Ryan Phillippe and they bonded emotionally. In December 1998 they were already engaged and on June 5, 1999 they got married at the Old Wide Awake Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. The marriage was blessed with two children, a daughter, Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, born September 9, 1999, and a son, Deacon Reese Phillippe, born October 2003. The marriage ended in October 2006.
Reese married Jim Toth, a talent agent and co-director of film talent at Creative Artists Agency. They married on March 26, 2011 in Ojai, California at Libbey Ranch and have a son named Tennessee who was born on September 26, 2012.
Reese Witherspoon has been one of the highest paid actresses in the world since 2019. It has an incredible net worth of $ 150 million.
Sweet Home Alabama: Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas played the role of Jake Perry, the husband of Melanie Smooter (Carmichael) in "Sweet Home Alabama". They first appeared as teenagers on an Alabama beach and discussed how they would be married one day.
Josh Lucas was born on June 20, 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the nurse-midwife Michele (born LeFevre) and the emergency doctor Don Maurer. Because of his parents' profession, the family often moved from city to city. When Josh turned 13, he lived in 30 different places.
Josh attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989, where he appeared in high school plays. After graduating from high school, he pursued his acting career. Josh had admitted that he realized he wanted to be an actor in 1987 after Michael Douglas Gordon awarded Gekko the Oscar on Wall Street. So he moved to Hollywood after high school and got smaller roles in films.
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Josh has played a number of roles in his acting career, including the one he asked for as basketball coach Don Haskins on Glory Road. He was married to the freelance writer Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, whom he met in 2011 in a dog park. On March 17, 2012, he married a son. In January 2014, Ciencin Henriquez filed for divorce, which became final in October 2014. Josh Lucas has $ 16 million in fortune.
Patrick Dempsey as Andrew Hennings
Patrick Dempsey played "Sweet Home Alabama" as Andrew Hennings, son of Kate Hennings, Mayor of New York. His mother Kate prepared him to run for president and was not entirely satisfied with his involvement in Melanie Smooter.
Patrick Dempsey was born in Lewiston Maine on January 13, 1966, to insurance salesman William and school secretary Amanda. He grew up in the nearby towns of Turner and Buckfield. He has two older sisters and a half brother, Shane. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 12. He attended Buckfield High School and St. Dominic Regional High School, and after moving to Houston, attended Willowridge High Schoo.
Patrick Dempsey started his acting career in 1983 and has appeared in top roles. Perhaps one of his greatest roles on television remains his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd (McDreamy) in the drama "Grays Anatomy" alongside Ellen Pompeo on ABC. The actor played 11 seasons in this role before moving on to other tasks. Although it was difficult for him to leave the show and claim that his time with the series was financially worthwhile, he had decided to turn to motorsport and be closer to his children. He took part in prestigious Pro-Am events such as the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Rolex 24 at the Daytona sports car race and the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race.
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He was married to his acting teacher Rochelle Rocky Parker on August 24, 1987 when he was 21 and they were 48 years old. They divorced on April 26, 1994 and Rocky passed away. On July 31, 1999, Dempsey married hairdresser and makeup artist Jillian Fink. The couple have three children, daughter Talula, who was born on February 20, 2002, and twin sons Sullivan Patrick and Darby Galen, who were born on February 1, 2007.
His marriage almost ended in January 2015 when Fink applied for divorce, but the couple reconciled later in the year. They canceled their divorce on November 12, 2016. Patrick Dempsey has a net worth of $ 60 million.
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