Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an Oscar-winning American actress.
Personal life
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles to the late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director) and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress of part Pennsylvania Dutch 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.
In May of 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.
She had a much-publicized romance with Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck.
On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay in secret. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004. She has been quoted as saying she chose the name Apple because it was "the sweetest, loveliest name." In October 2005, her mother hinted that Gwyneth may be pregnant with the couple's second child; however, neither Gwyneth nor her husband have so far commented on this.
Acting career
Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she played 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 steady film career, with a few notable film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Other work
In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estée Lauder.
Partial filmography
Running with Scissors (2006)
Proof (2005)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sylvia (2003)
View from the Top (2003)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (cameo)
Possession (2002)
Shallow Hal (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
Bounce (2000)
Duets (2000)
The Intern (2000) (cameo)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Hush (1998)
Great Expectations (1998)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Emma (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Hard Eight (1996)
Se7en (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Malice (1993)
Hook (1991)
Shout (1991)
Gwyneth Paltrow Favorite Faumous Quotes
- I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
- On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
- Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
- You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.
- But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
- I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Frank Moore