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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an
Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She
currently resides in England with her husband, Chris Martin, who
is the lead singer of the English rock band, Coldplay, and her two
children, Apple and Moses.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Other work
3 Personal life
4 Stalker
5 Filmography
6 Notes
7 External links
Early life
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
September 27, 1972
Los Angeles, California
Chris Martin (December 5, 2003 Spouse(s)
present) 2 children
Notable roles Tracy Mills in Se7en
Emma Woodhouse in Emma
Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in
Love
Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal
Tenenbaums
Sylvia Plath in Sylvia
Academy Awards
Birth name
Born
Best Actress
1998 Shakespeare in Love
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy
1999 Shakespeare in Love
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture
1998 Shakespeare in Love
Best Cast - Motion Picture
1998 Shakespeare in Love
Paltrow was born to the late film and television director Bruce
Paltrow (who was Jewish) and Blythe Danner (who was raised a
Quaker and is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent). Her paternal
grandparents were Gertrud Goldman and Aaron Paltrow, and her maternal grandparents were Eunice Hogan and
John Danner. 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 discontinuing her degree 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 was childhood friends with Saturday
Night Live's Maya Rudolph. She stated this when she hosted on November 10, 2001. The two sang
Flashdance...What a Feeling together during Paltrow's monologue and showed a photo of them in their youth.
Paltrow is a descendent 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
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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 all-girl's camp in Vermont.
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 played a small role in family friend 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. Paltrow
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.
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).
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]
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 of sales of items from the 'Pleasures Gwyneth Paltrow' collection to breast cancer research.[9]
Paltrow serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization which attempts to allieviate
problems caused by poverty in New York City.
Personal life
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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 Diane Sawyer 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 been linked romantically with Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson. She also been romantically linked with other
actors and famous people viz: Chris Heinz (2000-01), Robert Sean Leonard (2001),
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!"[10]
”
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.
In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the death of her father Bruce
Paltrow. She practices yoga, and 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.
Paltrow 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.
[11] [12]
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. She is
now good friends with royals such as Rosario Nadal y Fuster-Puigdorfila, wife of Kyril of Bulgaria, Mette-Marit,
Crown Princess of Norway and Marie-Chantal Miller.
On September 27th, 2006 (her 34th birthday) Gwyneth sang a duet with rap legend Jay-Z during his history-making
concert at Royal Albert Hall. She sang the chorus for Song Cry, from the rapper's classic Blueprint album.[13] In an
interview prior to her appearance she indicated she would be attending the concert, but did not mention she would
perform. She was also quoted as saying "I'm a Jay-Z fan. He's my best friend." [14] Her husband, Chris Martin, later
performed the song Beach Chair with Jay-Z from the rapper's album Kingdom Come.
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
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intelligent than Americans.[15] 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."[16] Diário de Notícias later
clarified in their December 6, 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] [17]
[18]
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.[19] The decision has since been overturned after jurists said that Siou’s
request to be placed in conditional release programme should have been considered.
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)
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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:
The Good Night (2007)
Dirty Tricks (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
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
Notes
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^ 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
^ Hello magazine staff writer (2004). "Gwyneth lets Oprah in on the secret of Apple" (http://
www.hellomagazine.com/film/2004/08/27/gwynethpaltrow/) 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
^ "Gwyneth Paltrow duets with Jay-Z (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5388228.stm) ", BBC News,
Sep. 28, 2006.
^ http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah1804.shtml
^ 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
External links
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interview, The Guardian UK (http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1695582,00.html) , 27
January 2006.
Gwyneth Paltrow (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000569/) at the Internet Movie Database
Gwyneth Paltrow (http://www.tv.com/person/40082/summary.html) at TV.com
Gwyneth Paltrow (http://www.people.com/people/gwyneth_paltrow) at People.com
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