Zellweger had her first starring role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). She subsequently earned early acclaim with a brief but notable appearance in Empire Records (1995), and was introduced to mainstream audiences in Jerry Maguire (1996). For Nurse Betty (2000), she won her first Golden Globe Award, and for her portrayals of Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones\'s Diary (2001)—a role she reprised in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones\'s Baby (2016)— and Roxie Hart in Chicago (2002), she garnered two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actress; she won her second Golden Globe for the latter. \n', '

Zellweger won the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role of a farmer in the American Civil War context in Cold Mountain (2003). She played the wife of boxer James J. Braddock in Cinderella Man (2005) and author Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter (2006). Roles in smaller scale films, such as Appaloosa (2008), My One and Only (2009) and Case 39 (2009), were followed by a lengthy hiatus from the screen. She returned in 2016, and is set to portray Judy Garland in Judy (2018).\n', '

Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from the Swiss town of Au, St. Gallen and descends from an Appenzell family, and was a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business. Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen), is Norwegian. Kjellfrid grew up in Ekkerøy near Vadsø, and also Kirkenes, and was a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of "lazy Catholics and Episcopalians".\n', '

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