In 1993, she played a young wife in the CBS miniseries "Return to Lonesome Dove", Nonnie Parker in the Disney film "A Far Off Place" and had a minor role in "Jack the Bear", which garnered her the Young Artist Award for Best Youth Actress Co-star.
Leta 1992 se je Reese Witherspoon pojavila v televizijskem filmu "Desperate Choices: To Save My Child", kjer je upodobila bolno mlado deklico.