Reese Witherspoon's eldest son, Deacon Phillippe, shared candid snaps on Sunday after graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts last Friday. The 22-year-old celebrated the educational milestone with several relatives, including his famous father Ryan Phillippe and his stepfather Jim Toth.
Family Celebrations
The 51-year-old One Mile action star also shared pictures of 'the graduate' and the ceremony held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City via Instagram story. Witherspoon divorced her Cruel Intentions leading man in 2007 after seven years of marriage, and she divorced the 55-year-old Flowcode board member in 2023 after 11 years of marriage.
Deacon let his 13-year-old half-brother Tennessee Toth, who was the spitting image of his 50-year-old mother, try on his graduation cap. Witherspoon, who boasts 50.4 million social media followers, captioned her own Instagram slideshow: 'After [four] years of hard work, long days, endless papers [and] classes, working with the greatest teachers and making new friends... My wonderful son graduated from @nyutisch! I'm so proud of you @deaconphillippe!' The Motorheads star replied: 'Love [you] mama!'
Notable Attendees
The Oscar winner also reunited with her Big Little Lies producer-castmate Laura Dern, who delivered a commencement speech during the ceremony. Also in the Big Apple for Deacon's big day was his older sister Ava Phillippe, who cracked a huge smile in her white mini-dress. The 26-year-old Vince Camuto model commented on her brother's Instagram post: 'A true scholar! With the paper to prove it! Proud of you!'
Other famous NYU Tisch graduates include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Rachel Brosnahan, Billy Crystal, Donald Glover, Felicity Huffman, Debra Messing, Billy Crudup, Gina Gershon, Michael C. Hall, Bryce Dallas Howard, Elizabeth Olsen, Pedro Pascal, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon and Miles Teller.
Deacon's Career
Deacon is already following in his famous folks' footsteps as a CAA-repped actor and he released his 12-track debut album A New Earth in 2023. The Japan singer will next portray Turdge in Frankie Shaw's heist film 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, which will be released in US theaters this August by Amazon MGM Studios through Orion Pictures. Liam Neeson, Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess also star in the black comedy based on Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg's 2017 graphic novel.
Last August, Deacon wrapped his role as Cole in Jesse Behrenwald's upcoming dystopian sci-fi film, Brother Save Us.
Reese's Upcoming Projects
Witherspoon has been hard at work executive producing and reprising her role as fired UBA news anchor Bradley Jackson in season five of her Apple TV+ series The Morning Show alongside Jennifer Aniston. The Hello Sunshine co-founder reportedly earns $2 million per episode for Charlotte Stoudt's hit newsroom drama, welcoming newcomers Jeff Daniels, Sean Hayes, Reneé Rapp and Jesse Williams. The small-screen adaptation of Brian Stelter's 2013 book Top of the Morning also stars Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm, all set to return.
Witherspoon executive produced Amazon Prime Video's Legally Blonde prequel series Elle, premiering July 1, and production on season two began on January 21. Showrunner Laura Kittrell's nineties-set teen comedy stars Lexi Minetree, June Diane Raphael, Tom Everett Scott, Chandler Kinney, David Burtka and the late James Van Der Beek in his final role as Dean Wilson. The Louisiana-born blonde originated the role of Elle Woods in Robert Luketic's 2001 comedy Legally Blonde followed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's 2003 sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, which earned a combined $267.3 million at the box office.
Witherspoon is also producing and starring in the third season of Big Little Lies for HBO as well as producing Jessica Goldberg's adaptation of Emily Giffin's 2018 novel All We Ever Wanted for Netflix.
