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GWYNETH PALTROW BIOGRAPHY |
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Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow (born September 27,
1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer.
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to the late Bruce
Paltrow, a film director, and Blythe Danner (a well-known
character actress); Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother
was raised in the Quaker religion. 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. She is an adopted
child of Talavera de la Reina, where she lived as an exchange
student.
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), 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 her
then-boyfriend Ben Affleck also appeared. She has since had a
steady 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.
In May of 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 became #1 in Australia.
In 2002, Paltrow appeared on singer Sheryl Crow's album titled
C'mon, C'mon singing with her on the track "It's Only Love".
She's confirmed to be working on her album and has already
finished recording her first single. The date of release is
unclear but William Orbit, producer of Madonna's album Ray of
Light and All Saints Pure Shores, is helping Paltrow on her own
L.P.
She had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt
and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck and Robert
Sean Leonard. She later stated that she regretted breaking up
with Pitt. In an interview with Barbara Walters she stated that
she wished Pitt well and couldn't believe he was with her when
she was "such a mess." They were together for over three years.
On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the United
Kingdom rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in
Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child,
daughter Apple Blythe Alison Martin, 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!"
Gwyneth Paltrow at press conference for The Talented Mr Ripley
in 2000.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, son 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 it's about the moment when Martin met
Paltrow.
In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from
depression after the untimely death of her father Bruce Paltrow.
She practices yoga, and is a vegan as well as following 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 is a good friend of 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. 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.
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.
According to documents filed with the Federal Election
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.
Paltrow is a descendant of the famous Rabbi David HaLevi Segal
of Cracow through the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch,
which produced 33 rabbis over several generations. Paltrow has
said she is very proud of being Jewish, and has attributed her
father's warmth to his Jewish heritage: |
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