Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September
28, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is an American
Academy Award-winning actress.
Biography
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California to the
late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director)
and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress
of English descent). Raised in Santa Monica, she attended
Spence School, a selective private girls' school in
New York City, and briefly studied Art History at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, before
dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow
has a younger brother named Jake and is a cousin of
actress Katherine Moennig.
Announcements
In May 2005 she publicly announced that she suffered
from depression after the untimely death of her father
Bruce Paltrow.
She is a vegetarian and a good friend
of both Madonna and Christina Applegate, but she earned
the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance
as Stone in a Saturday Night Live skit that poked
fun at Stone and her then-husband, Phil Bronstein.
According to documents filed with
the Federal Elections Commission, Gwyneth Paltrow
contributed $1,500 to John Kerry's campaign for President
in 2004, and also contributed $2,000 to Emily's List
and $2,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The FEC documents also list her home address as being
in New York City.
Personal life
She had a much-publicized romance and engagement to
Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to
Ben Affleck. She later stated that she regretted breaking
up with Pitt.
On December 5, 2003, she eloped with
Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay. Paltrow gave
birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin,
on May 14, 2004. She explained the unlikely name on
Oprah, saying, "It sounded so sweet and it conjured
such a lovely picture for me - you know, apples are
so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical -
and I just thought it sounded so lovely and…clean!
And I just thought, 'Perfect!'"
In December 2005, her mother told
the television program Entertainment Tonight that
Paltrow is pregnant with a second child, due in spring
2006. Recent pictures of Paltrow have confirmed it
and in January 2006 she said, "Since my daughter
camealong, I've not worked much through choice. And
with another baby on its way, I don't think I will
be doing a lot for the next year or so either."
Acting career
Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same
year she had a small role in family friend Steven
Spielberg's Hook (1991). She later starred in Se7en
(1995), dating her co-star Brad Pitt.
Her performance in Emma (1996) received
its share of praise. She was awarded the Academy Award
for Best Actress two years later for her performance
in Shakespeare in Love (1998), in which Affleck appeared.
She has since had a teady film career, with a few
notable film roles, including Proof (2005) and The
Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
In an interview with The Guardian
on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided
her career into those movies she did for love, and
those "shite" films she did for money. The
Royal Tenenbaums, Proof and Sylvia went into the former
category, whilst View From the Top and Shallow Hal
were in the latter.
Other work
In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face
of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume.
In 2000 Paltrow and Huey Lewis released the single
"Cruisin'" as a promotion for the movie
Duets. A video was shot and the song showed reasonable
results on the charts.
Filmography
Shout (1991)
Hook (1991)
Malice (1993)
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Deadly Relations (1993)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Hard Eight (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Emma (1996)
Out of the Past (1998) (documentary) (narrator)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Great Expectations (1998)
Hush (1998)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Intern (2000) (Cameo)
Duets (2000)
Bounce (2000)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Shallow Hal (2001)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (Cameo)
Possession (2002)
View from the Top (2003)
Sylvia (2003)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow(2004)
Proof (2005)
Upcoming:
Running with Scissors (2006)
Infamous (2006)
Love and Other Disasters (2006)
The Good Night (2006)
Untitled Marlene Dietrich Project (2007)
Dirty Tricks (2007)
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