LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reese Witherspoon has given birth to her third child and she named him after a place close to her heart.

"Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today. Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled,” Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, Witherspoon's publicist, said Thursday.

Witherspoon, 36, the star of "Legally Blonde" and "Walk the Line," lived in Tennessee when she was young.

Witherspoon is already a mom to Ava, 13, and Deacon, 8, from her prior marriage to Ryan Phillippe.

Toth is an agent for Creative Artists Agency.