Reese isn't the only star to set her sights on a hotel launch.

Clint Eastwood owns the Mission Ranch Hotel in Carmel, California, fashion designer Donatella Versace is the brains behind the Palazzo Versace in Queensland, Australia and singer Gloria Estefan's property portfolio includes the Costa d'Este Beach Resort in Florida.

In other Reese news, the actress is lined up to take on the role of an elite female American soldier who died in an explosion in Afghanistan.

First Lieutenant Ashley White was one of the first US women to fight in the war and was killed in the Kandahar province in 2010. She was posthumously awarded a number of honours, including the Purple Heart, for her bravery.

Reese is expected to take the lead role in an upcoming film adaptation of the book Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

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