Gwyneth Paltrow

Bio

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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972)is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer.Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Blythe Danner, an actress, and Bruce Paltrow, a late film and television director, writer, and producer. Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother was raised a Quaker; Paltrow follows Judaism and proudly acknowledges her Jewish roots.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,where she lived as an exchange student and learned Spanish.Paltrow was childhood friends with Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph and attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp, an all-girl's camp in Vermont.

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Personal Life

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Paltrow is a descendent of a famous 17th century Polish rabbi, David HaLevi Segal of Krakow,through the Russian rabbinical family, Paltrowitch, which produced thirty-three rabbis over several generations.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 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."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!"

Filmography

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2008 Iron Man
2008 Two Lovers
2007 The Good Night
2007 Dirty Tricks
2006 Running With Scissors
2006 Love and Other Disasters
2006 Infamous
2005 Proof
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2003 Sylvia
2002 Searching for Debra Winger
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002 View from the Top
2002 Possession
2001 Shallow Hal
2001 The Anniversary Party
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums
2000 Saturday Night Live: The Best of the Clinton