Life Story

		Biography
		Awards & Nominations

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Early life: Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to the late Bruce Paltrow (descendant from the well-known Paltrowitch rabbinical family of Russia), 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.

Paltrow is a descendant of the famous Rabbi David HaLevi Segal, of Cracow (1586-1667). He was known as “The Taz” after his great book Turei Zahav or "Pillars of Gold." The descendants of Rabbi Ha-Levi were the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch, which produced 33 rabbis over several generations. Paltrow has said she is very proud of being Jewish.

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 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.

Personal life: 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.

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.

On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay with 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 unlikely 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!'"

In January 2006 Paltrow said, "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. The unusual name can be explained with a 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 first 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 is a vegan and 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.

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.

 

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors, This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gwyneth Paltrow".

All original content , Copyright ©2004-2006 WestLord.com , All Rights Reserved