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Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, SAG Award-, and Golden Globe-winning American actress, singer, dancer, and performer that has established herself as one of the highest-paid female Hollywood actors in recent years. She is also known as the former wife of country musician Kenny Chesney. The couple were briefly married in 2005 before an annulment seven months later.

Zellweger dated Josh Pate, whom she began seeing in November 1996 after the filming of Deceiver. She also was rumored to have dated George Clooney. Her first high-profile romance was with actor/comedian Jim Carrey. The relationship ended in a broken engagement in December 2000. Zellweger notably poked fun at the prior relationship when she ended her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live by reading an entry from her own “diary”, marked “Dear Diary, I can’t believe I am dating Jim Carrey.”For two years, Zellweger dated The White Stripes singer Jack White, who is six years her junior. The pair became involved while filming Cold Mountain. They broke up two years later, after schedule demands kept them apart. Friends said the split was amicable.

On May 9, 2005, Zellweger married singer Kenny Chesney in a ceremony at the island of St. John. They had met in January at a tsunami relief benefit concert. Zellweger missed out on the engagement ring since the wedding was planned over a short span of time. On September 15, 2005, after only four months of marriage, they announced their plans for an annulment. Zellweger cited fraud as the reason in the related papers. After media scrutiny of her use of the word “fraud”, she qualified the use of the term, stating it was “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character. I would personally be very grateful for your support in refraining from drawing derogatory, hurtful, sensationalized or untrue conclusions. We hope to experience this transition as privately as possible.” The annulment was finalized in late December 2005.Since the annulment, she has been linked to various personalities, including actor Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame.

After selling her home in the Hollywood Hills, Zellweger bought a home in Bel Air. In January 2007, she admitted that she gets scared at home alone due to security problems and fans who send or leave mail at her homes. She said that she considered buying a gun for reasons of personal security.
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