>In a message dated 10/12/2003 8:57:01 AM Central Daylight Time,
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>renne has the authority of being a true texan- as well as the luxury of
> being able to meet with the resal character she portrays- so I consider her
> protrayal as dead-on, and i consider the movie to be the story of novalyne-
> not the story of REH. JB
> I believe that Renee's parents were foreign however, so she probably had
>very little of Texas tradition in her. Ivan Quixote
You beleive? Some people still beleive the earth is flat. What I said is
authoritative, pal.
Renee went to the University of Texas here in my home town, a personal
friend of mine played Leatherface in her first movie- filmed here, and I
have it from him who has it from the horse's mouth, that she was born and
raised in texas- and her internet bio confirms my statemnents, as well as
refuting yours. so renee is not only a real texan, but can and does act
like one, whereas vincent d'onofrio hasn't the faintest idea of how to
portray a texan, and REH _was_ a true TEXAN. JB
see below
Date of birth (location)25 April 1969Katy, Texas, USA Mini biography
Ren�e Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas,
Biography for
Ren�e Zellweger
Page 11 of 19
Birth name
Renee Kathleen Zellweiger
Nickname
Zelly
Height
5' 3" (1.60 m)
Mini biography
Ren�e Kathleen Zellweger was born on
April
25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, USA to
parents Emil
Zellweiger, a Swiss-born engineer
who married
Ren�e's mother Kjellfrid Zellweiger, a
Norwegian-born former nurse and
midwife in
1963. Ren�e also has a brother named
Drew
Zellweiger, a marketing executive
born on
February 15, 1967. Ren�e got
interested in
acting in high school while working
on the
drama club. She also took an acting
class at the
University of Texas, where she began
looking
towards acting as a career. After
graduation,
she wanted to continue acting, but
Hollywood
is a tough town to break into. So
Ren�e decided
to stay in Texas, and auditioned for
roles
around Houston where she managed to grab
roles in such films as Reality Bites
(1994) and
Empire Records (1995). She then took
a role in
the sequel to The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre,
where she met Matthew McConaughey,
another
Hollywood up-and-comer. He was
working on
a project at the time that Renee was
interested
in, auditioned for and won the role
in the film
Love and a .45 (1994), which earned her
enough critical praise that she
decided to move
to Los Angeles. Another role in
Whole Wide
World, The (1996) followed which led
to her
big break. Cameron Crowe was busy
casting
his next film, Jerry Maguire (1996),
starring
Tom Cruise. Crowe was considering such
actresses as Cameron Diaz, Bridget
Fonda,
Winona Ryder, and Marisa Tomei, when he
heard of Zellweger's performance in
Whole
Wide World, The (1996). He auditioned
Zellweger and was sure he'd found
his Dorothy
Boyd. Ren�e followed her huge
success with a
few small independent films and
after receiving
further critical praise, she felt
confident enough
to reenter the world of big-budget
Hollywood
films. She starred opposite Meryl
Streep in the
tear-jerker One True Thing (1998).
She also
took a role in Me, Myself & Irene
(2000),
opposite Jim Carrey. And soon after
began
dating Carrey. The two denied their
relationship
at first, but finally gave in and
admitted their
love; but today they are no longer
together.
Also in 2000 she starred in the
title role in
Nurse Betty (2000), where she won a
Golden
Globe for Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical.
In 2001, she received even more
critical and
commercial success in the yet again
title role in
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001).
