Gwyneth Paltrow
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| Gwyneth Paltrow | |
 Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath in the 2003 film Sylvia. |
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| Birth name | Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow |
| Born | September 28, 1972 (age 34) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Martin (5 December 2003 - present) 2 children |
| Notable roles | Tracy Mills in Se7en (1995) Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love (1998) Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Sylvia Plath in Sylvia (2003) |
| Academy Awards | |
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| Best Actress 1998 Shakespeare in Love |
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| Golden Globe Awards | |
| Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1999 Shakespeare in Love |
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Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband Chris Martin, lead singer from the UK band Coldplay and the rest of her family.
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[edit] Early life
Paltrow was born to the late film and television director Bruce Paltrow (who was Jewish) and Blythe Danner (who was raised a Quaker and of Pennsylvania Dutch descent). Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Crossroads School before moving and attending Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City. Later she briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig. She is an "adopted daughter" of Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where she lived as an exchange student and learned Spanish.[1][2][3]
Paltrow is a descendant of a famous 17th-century Polish rabbi, David HaLevi Segal of Cracow,[4] through the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch, which produced thirty-three rabbis over several generations.[5] The actress has said she is very proud of being Jewish, and has attributed her father's warmth to his Jewish heritage:
"My father had that incredible Jewish warmth, really bolstering us [his children] all the time. And when you're nine years old and you're hearing that you are the best person, it gets in there, and you think, 'OK, I'm not going to be afraid to try things, because I'm always loved no matter what.' That kills me, when I think about it. It totally breaks my heart, how lucky I am."[6] Paltrow attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp, an acting camp in Vermont.
[edit] Career
Paltrow made her professional stage debut in 1990. Her most recent stage appearance was in Proof at London's Donmar Warehouse.
Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she had a small role in family friendly Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991). She later starred in Se7en (1995). Her performance in Emma (1996) received much praise, particularly in Europe and Asia.
Two years later, Paltrow starred in a film titled Shakespeare in Love, an imagining of how William Shakespeare might have written Romeo and Juliet. The film received critical acclaim, earned more than $100 million in domestic box office receipts and received numerous awards. Shakespeare in Love won the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture. She also won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role from the Screen Actors Guild. Later that year, Paltrow received an Academy Award nomination and won the Oscar® for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
However, it was widely reported (New York Post, New York Daily News, E!Online, and other major publications) that the role was initially offered to Paltrow's then-close friend Winona Ryder. But when Paltrow spotted the script in Ryder's house, she "borrowed" it and dissuaded Ryder from taking the part, and proposed to filmmakers that she should take the role instead. Ryder has never publicly denied such reports.
Some critics seriously objected to Paltrow's being crowned Best Actress, suggesting her win was a result of the disproportionately large amount of money spent by Miramax to promote the film during Oscar season. Appeals have been made to the Academy, together with similar complaints against other films. The result was that rules on the materialistic promotion of films were tightened. (IMDB)
Since then, she has had a relatively low-profile, yet steady, film career with a few critically acclaimed film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)[citation needed].
Paltrow has been criticised by critics of various magazines and newspapers(Empire, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, Independent, Guardian, etc.) for her "self-entitlement", unconvincing British accent, inability to expand her range and "monotonous portrayal" of characters[citation needed].
Audiences got their first taste of Paltrow's singing ability with the 2000 release of Duets, in which she co-starred with singer Huey Lewis, who played her karaoke-hustling estranged father. Towards the end of the film, their characters resolve their differences and perform a cover version of Smokey Robinson's Cruisin'. The song, which surprised many of Paltrow's fans, was well-received and was eventually released as a single, getting heavy airplay from Top 40 and adult contemporary-formatted radio stations.
In an interview with The Guardian[7] on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided her career into those movies she did for love and those films she did for money. The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, and Sylvia fell into the former category, whilst View From the Top and Shallow Hal were in the latter.[7]
Since winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love, Paltrow's career has declined considerably, with her most recent box-office smash being 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley[8]
[edit] Other work
In May of 2005, Paltrow became the new face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume. Estée Lauder donates a minimum of $500,000 from sales of items from the 'Pleasures Gwyneth Paltrow' collection for breast cancer research.[9]
[edit] Personal life
On turning thirty, she says "I had the most incredible birthday weekend until my dad died on me like four days later," said Paltrow, who turned 30 on Sept. 28, 2002. "It's been, in many ways, the worst year of my life and will continue to be."[6]
Paltrow had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt. She once stated that she regretted breaking up with Pitt, saying in an interview with Barbara Walters that she wished Pitt well and could not believe he was with her when she was "such a mess." They were together for over three years.
She has also been linked romantically to Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson. She had a also had a series of relationships with a many other actors as well, including Chris Heinz (2000-01), Robert Sean Leonard (2001), and a very busy 2002 with a string of lovers: Bryan Adams (2002), Prince Albert II (2002), Aaron Eckhart (2002), Prince Felipe (2002), Prince Nicholas (2002), James Purefoy (2002), Walter Salles (2002) and Scott Speedman (2002-03).[10]
On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, five months later, on May 14, 2004, in London. She explained the unusual first 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!"[11] | ” |
In January 2006 Paltrow announced that, "Since my daughter came along, 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." Her second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on April 8, 2006, by caesarean section in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son's first name can be explained by the song that her husband wrote for her shortly before their secret wedding, called "Moses." It includes the words "Like Moses has the power of the sea, so you've got power over me..." and is about the moment when Martin met Paltrow.[citation needed]
In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the death of her father Bruce Paltrow. She practices yoga, and is a vegan who follows a macrobiotic diet, although she told People in 2005 that, "I'm not as stringent as I was in the past. Now I'll have cheese once in a while or white flour, but I still believe in whole grains and no sugar." She admits a fondness for wine, however.
She is a good friend of Christina Applegate and Beyoncé, 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.[12] [13] Paltrow is also good friends with Madonna and fashion designers Valentino and Stella McCartney. Steven Spielberg is a close family friend. She was best friends with Winona Ryder until her breakup with Brad Pitt.
In December of 2006, Paltrow was reported on the Internet to have told Notícias Sábado, the weekend magazine supplement of Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias, that she thought British people were more civilized and intelligent than Americans.[14] Paltrow denied making the statements attributed to her and told People magazine that she never gave an interview to a Portuguese publication, but did a press conference in Spain where she tried to say in Spanish that Europe was an "older culture" and Americans "live to work."[15] Diário de Notícias later clarified in their December 6th, 2006 edition that they had not obtained the quotes from an original interview or foreign press conference, but rather from previous English-language articles which are still referenced online.[7] [16] [17]
[edit] Stalker
Paltrow had a stalker in 1999 and 2000 named Dante Michael Siou, who allegedly sent five to ten packages a week: everything from love notes, flowers and candy to religious tracts, pornography, dozens of letters a week, and over 1,200 emails. He also made a threat of a sexual nature and showed up repeatedly at her house, even after her mother, Blythe Danner warned him not to return. He persisted despite being warned by the FBI and was sentenced to several years in a mental institution.[18]
[edit] Filmography
- Shout (1991)
- Hook (1991)
- Malice (1993)
- Flesh and Bone (1993)
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
- Higher Learning (1995)
- 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)
- I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2005) (documentary)
- Infamous (2006)
- Love and Other Disasters (2006)
- Running with Scissors (2006)
Upcoming:
| Preceded by Helen Hunt for As Good As It Gets |
Academy Award for Best Actress 1998 for Shakespeare in Love |
Succeeded by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry |
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://americanwaymag.com/aw/travel/celebrated.asp?archive_date=6/15/2004
- ^ http://www.uktv.co.uk/?uktv=standarditem.index&aID=527911
- ^ http://www.hola.com/cine/2003/04/13/gwyneth/
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060411/ai_n16179851
- ^ http://www.generationj.com/issues/jan_1/paltrow.html
- ^ a b http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-10-13-paltrow_x.htm
- ^ a b c http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1695582,00.html
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/film_nm/oscars_curse_dc
- ^ http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005848263
- ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/592/000023523/
- ^ Hello magazine staff writer (2004). "Gwyneth lets Oprah in on the secret of Apple" HelloMagazine.com (accessed August 21, 2006)
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/472523p-397618c.html
- ^ http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/08/13/stone/index.html
- ^ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/04/gwyneth_paltrow_says_british_people_are_/
- ^ http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1565719,00.html
- ^ http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=7&num=10219&printer=1
- ^ http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=6166
- ^ http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,7520,00.html
[edit] External links
- interview, The Guardian UK, 27 January 2006.
- Gwyneth Paltrow at the Internet Movie Database
- Gwyneth Paltrow at TV.com
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Paltrow, Gwyneth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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