How Reese Witherspoon built a $1.2b business empire

The work of the world’s richest actress is fuelled by frustration at the film industry’s gender power imbalance and it has made her the face of a cultural movement and a hit type of grown-up TV drama.

Susannah Goldsbrough

Aug 20, 2021 – 7.10am

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Reese Witherspoon has proven herself one of Hollywood’s most bankable tastemakers. AP

Reese Witherspoon – Oscar-winning actor, fiction mega-influencer, and the brains behind a highly specific and wildly successful type of prestige TV drama that has dominated the small-screen for the past half a decade – has just sold her production company, Hello Sunshine, to investment giant Blackstone for $US900 million ($1.2 billion).

The Telegraph London