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 Birth Name: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Date of Birth: September 28, 1972
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5 ' 10 "
Family:
Father: Bruce William Paltrow
Mother: Blythe Katherine Danner
Brother: Jake Paltrow
Husband: Chris Martin
Daughter: Apple Blythe Alison Martin
Son: Moses
At the age of 11, Gwyneth Paltrows and her family moved to Manhattan, New York. This is where she watch her Tony award-winning mother perform at theatre festivals. Her mother, Blythe, performed in summer stock theatre in Berkshires, Massachusetts. Gwyneth began to participate, and even co-starred with her mother in a couple of productions. Gwyneth made her debut starring in a production of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Then she knew that acting was exactly what she was meant to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow moved back to Los Angeles in order to attend the University of California in Santa Barbara as an art history major. Her first film role was in the film Shout (1991), co-starring John Travolta. But her big break came when she went out one night with her father and family friends Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw. Director Steven Spielberg was in the process of casting for his film Hook. He offered Gwyneth the role of Wendy, which she instantly accepted. After her role in Hook, she was cast as the lead role in the mini-series Cruel Doubt (1992), while her mother was offered a co-starring role. But the film that threw Gwyneth Paltrow into the spotlight was her role as Brad Pitt's girlfriend in the film Seven. It was during the filming of this movie that the couple met and fell in love.
In 1996, Gwyneth Paltrow co-starred with David Schwimmer in The Pallbearer. That same year she took on the title role in the comedy Emma. In the film Sliding Doors (1998), Gwyneth portrays the leading lady in two different versions of herself. And in 1998, she co-starred with Michael Douglas in A Perfect Murder. Gwyneth Paltrow recieved the 1999 Academy Award for Best Actress, for her portrayal as Shakespeare's cross dressing love interest. She played a stage actress, who was forced to disguise herself as a male, since the stage was no place for a woman. On September 2, 2002, Gwyneth father, Bruce, died in Rome, Italy, due to complications from pneumonia and a recurrence of throat cancer.
Gwyneth have been dating both actor, Brad Pit and Ben Affleck. But on Dec 5, 2003, she married musician Chris Martin. Together they have two children, a daughter named Apple (born May 14, 2004) and a son named Moses (born April 9, 2006).
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