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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Academy Award-winning actress.

Biography

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California to the late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director) and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress of English 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.

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.

Announcements

In May 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 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.

According to documents filed with the Federal Elections 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.

Personal life

She had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck. She later stated that she regretted breaking up with Pitt.

On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004. She explained the unlikely 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 December 2005, her mother told the television program Entertainment Tonight that Paltrow is pregnant with a second child, due in the second quarter of 2006. Recent pictures of Paltrow have confirmed it and in January 2006 she 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."

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 Affleck 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. .

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