Sold Hello Sunshine for $900M. Legally Blonde to legally loaded.
Witherspoon debuted at 14 in The Man in the Moon (1991), won an Oscar at 29 for Walk the Line, then did something no actress had done: she built a media empire. Hello Sunshine produced Big Little Lies, The Morning Show, and Daisy Jones & The Six. She sold the company to Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Her personal cut: approximately $400 million. She went from Legally Blonde to legally loaded. The most successful actress-to-executive transition in Hollywood history, and she did it by buying the rights to books before anyone else realized adaptations were the future.

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