• Name: Renee Zellweger
  
• Birth Name: Renee Kathleen Zellweger
  
• Height: 5' 5"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: April 25, 1969
  
• Birth Place: Katy, Texas
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Katy High School
  
•   : University of Texas (journalism)
  
• Relationship: Jack White (The White Stripes), Jim Carrey (actor; met during filming of Me, Myself and Irene in December 1999-2000; separated), Josh Pate (director),
  
• Father: Emil Zellweger (oil refinery engineer)
  
• Mother: Kjellfried Zellweger (nurse)
  
• Brother: Andrew (nickname Drew; older brother)
  
• Claim to fame: as Dorothy Boyd in 'Jerry Maguire' (1996)
  

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• On being around British people: "What did become apparent to me when I was living in England were my Americanisms. I felt that so strongly. I felt loud and inappropriately direct. I felt curt and clumsy and I felt obnoxious in my straightforward way of communicating."
• About George Clooney: "I talk about him all the time. He's a wonderful man, the nicest person, you have no idea. He's so kind, so kind. And you'd be shocked at how smart he is. Or maybe not. I think it comes across. He's a wonderful person, and he's one of my best friends. And as good-looking as he is, he's 50 times nicer than that."
• About Los Angeles: "It opens your eyes in this town, it's amazing. It's taught me who I don't want to be."
• On the size of her backside: "This is still very, very big."
• "Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money."
• "I'm not that self-aware. I don't spend my day thinking, 'Hmm, how am I being perceived today?' I don't have time for that. I have a lot of great friends to call instead."
• "On a superficial level, I'm clumsy, self-deprecating, uncertain at times, and I say stupid things."
• "I'm hugely embarrassed when it comes to scatological matters, and I'm very shy about my sexuality."
• "When a woman stands naked in a room, unless that particular moment is held up by the subject matter, all you notice is that there's a naked girl."
• "I'm sick of talking about myself. In fact, I'm tired of talking."
• "I was happy to look down and see these big thighs and cellulite. I loved it. It was truly liberating. There's so much room to think about other things when you're not thinking about your body."
• "I'm getting better at dealing with fame, I guess. But I still feel stupid. I mean, if I were Stephen Hawking, then you could come up to me and tell me I'm great."
• "I've always known who I am in terms of what brings me happiness, and that's not negotiable."
• "I don't want to be somebody else or do what somebody has already done."
• "I've had three lovers in the past four years, and they all ran a distant second to a good book and a warm bath."
• "It diminishes your worth as a person and your character, to some degree, if you're willing to share your greatest intimacies with people you've never met."
• "Learning a whole new medium of expression yourself is so fulfilling in ways that I never imagined. I feel more present than I have in my life for so long as a result of this. To use your body in that way, to express yourself in that way. . . I shouldn't even try to explain it, because I can't."
• "I see the Oscar (for best supporting actress in COLD MOUNTAIN) in my bedroom, and it's like I bought it in a souvenir shop on Hollywood Boulevard."
• "My life has far exceeded what I might ever have dreamed of because I would never have been so bold as to dream that these things might happen to me."
• "I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise.'"
• On the weight she lost after BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY: "It saddens me every day when people come up and say, 'OK, how did you lose that weight?' I can't speak about it because I am not an authority on weight loss. I am just not. I am not challenged with a medical situation that's weight-related and that I need to pay attention to."

• Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• BAFTA Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Acting Ensemble, CHICAGO (2003)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO (2003)
• San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Supporting Actress, COLD MOUNTAIN (2003)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, CHICAGO (2003)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture, CHICAGO (2003)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, COLD MOUNTAIN (2003)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, NURSE BETTY (2001)
• Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, NURSE BETTY (2001)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy/Romance, JERRY MAGUIRE (1997)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Breakthrough Artist, JERRY MAGUIRE (1997)
• Lone Star Film & Television Awards: Special Award - Rising Star Actress (1997)
• Mar del Plata Film Festival: Best Actress, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1997)
• National Board of Review: Best Breakthrough Performer, JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)

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