Name: Gwyneth
Paltrow
Overview
Date of Birth: 27 September
1972, Los
Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Nicknames: Gwynnie
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Trade Mark: Often
plays British characters
Blonde hair and blue eyes
Deep husky voice
Spouse:
Chris
Martin (5 December 2003
- present) (separated) (2 children)
Since then, her roles have included The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Iron Man (2008), Two Lovers (2008), and Country Strong (2010).
Trivia:
1990: Graduated from The Spence School in New York City.
October 1998: Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline's
100 Most.
15 August 1998: Gave $21,000 watch to boyfriend Ben Affleck as a
birthday present.
1998: One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
20 December 1996: Engaged to actor Brad Pitt.
1996: Confirmed as the next Calvin Klein
model.
Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara
(UCSB) for one year as an Art History major.
After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera De la
Reina, Toledo, Spain, she can speak fairly good Spanish.
Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie The Avengers
(1998).
Met with James Cameron
for the role of Rose in Titanic
(1997).
A couple sued Gwyneth for an undisclosed amount claiming
that the actress injured them during an April 1999 car accident.
Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg
and Kate Capshaw
at their home in the Hamptons.
As part of research for her role as an obese woman in Shallow Hal
(2001), wore the 200-pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to
a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely.
She said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by
overweight people in society.
Has been friends with Maya Rudolph
(of Saturday
Night Live (1975) fame) since she was seven.
Sticks to a macrobiotic diet.
Owned a flat in London, England, UK.
Older sister of Jake Paltrow;
first cousin of actress Katherine Moennig,
whose roles include Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt on Young Americans
(2000) and Shane McCutcheon on The L Word
(2004), and Hillary
Danner; niece of Harry Danner.
2002: TV commercials and print ads for Spain's department
store chain El Corte Inglés' spring line.
Did her own singing in the movie Duets (2000).
Went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica for one year.
13 April 2003: Attended the ceremony in Talavera De la
Reina, Toledo, Spain, in which she was named "adopted daughter". She
first visited the town as a young schoolgirl and has since frequently returned
to it, enamored - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside.
Played Thomas Jefferson's daughter in Jefferson in Paris
(1995). Her mother, Blythe Danner,
played Jefferson's wife, "Martha", in 1776 (1972),
just before Gwyneth was conceived. In the Ken Burns
miniseries, Thomas
Jefferson (1997), she played his granddaughter.
2002: Nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award
for Best Actress for her performance in "Proof", performed at the
Donmar Warehouse in London, England.
She and her husband Chris Martin
purchased Kate
Winslet's North London home in Belsize Park.
She is the daughter of Bruce Paltrow
and Blythe
Danner. Gwyneth's paternal grandparents, Arnold P. Paltrow and Dorothy
Weigert, were both from Jewish families from Eastern and Central Europe
(Poland, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania), and Gwyneth's father had many
generations of rabbis in the family tree. Gwyneth's maternal grandparents were
Harry Earl Danner and Katherine M. Kile, and Gwyneth's mother is of German,
with smaller amounts of English and Irish, descent. Some of her mother's
ancestors lived in Barbados.
Her mother, Blythe Danner,
was about five months pregnant with the future actress when she appeared in Columbo: Étude in
Black (1972) . The episode also starred John Cassavetes,
and aired during the show's first season.
Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes
of the medical drama St. Elsewhere
(1982). Gwyneth's dad, Bruce Paltrow,
was the producer of the series.
Turned down the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring
(2002).
Is best friends with Madonna.
Revealed that she named her daughter Apple, because apples
are whole, sweet and crisp. The baby's middle name honors her grandmothers, Blythe Danner
and Alison Martin.
Attended St. Augustine By The Sea (where she met Maya Rudolph)
in Los Angeles and the Spence School in New York City.
October 2002: Met husband Chris Martin
when she attended his band's (Coldplay's)
concert.
She does not employ a nanny to take care of her daughter, a
rarity among actors in the film business.
Signed a contact with Estée Lauder
for $10 million to promote its new line of fragrance, "Pleasures".
Her son, Moses Martin,
is named after a song Chris Martin
wrote for her and appears on Coldplay's
"Live 2003" album. Moses is also her father's Hebrew name.
She speaks French quite well, having spent a summer in Paris
when in her early twenties.
Is good friends with Helena Christensen,
who was one of the first people to visit Gwyneth in the hospital, after she
gave birth to her son, Moses Martin
(Moses Bruce Anthony Martin).
Long-time close friendship with actress Mary Wigmore,
who also appeared (albeit briefly) in Paltrow's films The Royal
Tenenbaums (2001) and Shallow Hal
(2001).
Was Maid of Honor at Madonna's
wedding to Guy
Ritchie.
Her godfather Steven Spielberg
is also the godfather of Drew Barrymore.
Godparents of her daughter, Apple Martin,
are Simon Pegg,
Mary Wigmore,
and Chris Martin's
Coldplay
band-mate, Jon
Buckland.
Was originally signed on to play Ava Gardner in The Aviator
(2004), but dropped out.
Auditioned for "Vickie" in Reality Bites
(1994), but lost out to Janeane Garofalo.
She earns $3 million per year endorsing Estée Lauder on
television and in print advertisements.
Was hospitalized and then released (14 January 2008).
Attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp in Vermont.
Practices yoga.
When she played Sharon Stone on
Saturday Night
Live (1975), Stone felt offended and criticized her performance (1999).
Had suffered post-partum depression following the birth of
her son, Moses
Martin [April 15, 2008].
Attended the Spence School in Manhattan, an elite private
girls' school that was also attended by Emmy Rossum and
Kerry Washington.
Attended the 55th Tony Awards. She can be seen dancing with
the revival cast of "The Rocky Horror Show" during "The Time
Warp".
2008 Ambassador for the Entertainment Industry Foundation
(EIF)'s Women's Cancer Research Fund.
Gwyneth's brother, Jake Paltrow's
birthday is a day before hers (9/26 and 9/27, respectively).
Born at 5:25 PM (PDT).
Friend of Cameron Diaz, Stella McCartney,
Liv Tyler, Reese Witherspoon
and Tracy
Anderson.
Returned to work ten months after giving birth to her
daughter, Apple
Martin, in order to begin filming Running with
Scissors (2006).
Her friendship with Winona Ryder
ended in the late 1990s.
Returned to work eleven months after giving birth to her
son, Moses
Martin, in order to begin filming Iron Man
(2008).
Was six months pregnant with her son Moses Martin
when she completed filming The Good Night
(2007).
Two of her ex-boyfriends have been named Sexiest Man Alive
by People magazine: Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck.
Replaced Charlize Theron
in the role of Greta Wegener in The Danish Girl
(2016), but after dropping out of the project herself she was replaced by Marion Cotillard.
Was awarded the 2,427th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
by Tim McGraw,
accompanied by her Country Strong
(2010) co-star Faith
Hill and Glee
(2009) co-star Matthew
Morrison (13 December 2010).
Second cousin of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,
who was injured in the 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting. Their fathers are first
cousins.
Was in attendance at the wedding of Reese Witherspoon
to Jim Toth
(26 March 2011).
Auditioned for the role of Kelly Taylor in Beverly Hills,
90210 (1990), but lost the part to Jennie Garth.
Auditioned for the role of Susannah in Legends of the
Fall (1994). She lost the part to Julia Ormond,
but Brad Pitt
was so impressed with Gwyneth that he later hand-picked her to play his wife in
Se7en
(1995).
Is a lifelong friend of Norman Lloyd,
who knew her mother, Blythe Danner,
for exactly 40 years, right around the same time she was born.
Her mother, Blythe Danner,
was pregnant with her during production of 1776 (1972).
Good friends with Mario Batali.
Lives in the same apartment building, in TriBeCa, as Meryl Streep
(2012).
Release of the book,"Spain: A Culinary Road Trip"
by Gwyneth and Mario
Batali.
In New Zealand filming Sylvia (2003).
[January 2003]
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 31, a daughter Apple
Blythe Alison Martin (aka Apple Martin)
on May 14, 2004. Child's father is her now estranged husband, Chris Martin.
Revealed that she named her daughter Apple, because apples
are whole, sweet and crisp. The baby's middle name honors her grandmothers, Blythe Danner
and Alison Martin.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 33, a son Moses Bruce
Anthony Martin (aka Moses Martin)
on April 8, 2006. Child's father is her now estranged husband, Chris Martin.
(March 17, 2013) Admitted that she had miscarried her future
3rd child with her now estranged husband Chris Martin
and almost died.
(March 25, 2014) Separated from her husband of 10 years Chris Martin.
Was the 115th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won
the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in
Love (1998) at The 71st Annual
Academy Awards (1999) on March 21, 1999.
Delivered her daughter Apple naturally after a 70-hour long
labor but delivered her son Moses via Caesarean section out of fear of having
another long labor.
Was supposed to star in She's Out of My
League (2010) but due to production delays, she backed out and Alice Eve
replaced her.
Personal
Quotes: Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin.
That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
[on her father's (Bruce Paltrow's)
struggle with throat cancer]: It changed me more than anything else. You don't
want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the
next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
[on her 1997 break up with Brad Pitt]: It
really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in
me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged,
that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave
thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
I find Sex and the City
(1998) irreverent and shocking. It's one step beyond how girls really talk. I
would do a cameo on that show in a flash.
I realised life is so short and precious, you should do
things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd
rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private
plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.
I'm glad that some day my children will be able to see my
father and hear his voice, get a sense of who he was. One of the things that
disturbs me the most about the fact that he's dead, is that I feel like a
statistic. I sort of feel like one of those people who was unfortunate and lost
their father when they were 30, and life goes on. But he was so unique and so
incredible, I don't like to think about it in those terms.
I worked so much in my 20s and I really burnt the candle at
both ends. I wasn't too picky about what I did and I was lucky that I did some
really good films, but I also did some really rubbish films, I think part of
the downside about being so successful and winning the Oscar at the age of 26
is that I sort of became insouciant about the things that I chose. I thought,
"Oh, I'll just try this, it'll be fun or I'll do that for the money".
Things like that now I would absolutely never do.
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn
more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
There are certain women in this business who have children
and I just think, "You must never, never see them!" You can't do movies
back to back and see your child if they go to school.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being
together or not, it's our business.
[on being pregnant while filming Proof (2005)]
It was very, very difficult. I was trying not to barf. I felt terrible.
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon,
you think, another romantic comedy? You know. You see her in something like Walk the Line
(2005) and think, "God, you're so great!" And then you think,
"Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?" But of course,
it's for money and status. I just think, "Wouldn't it be great if all of
those movies people went to see were about real women?"
I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it
is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about
interesting things at dinner parties. I like living here because I don't tap
into the bad side of American psychology, which is "I'm not achieving
enough, I'm not making enough, I'm not at the top of the pile!"
I'm very happy here [in London] and I really like the way
the film industry works, everybody cares. I like that it doesn't have this big
capitalistic feeling. When you do something in L.A. you really feel the crew
are punching the clock.
I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, "No,
you've got it all wrong!" I just want to tell them all to have babies and
be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were
no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America.
There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think
nothing of going to see a therapist.
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans.
I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in
the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places
I go for dinner and my friends. It's a pretty city, you know.
British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates. If
someone asked you out they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it
happens all the time. Someone will come up to you and ask you for dinner and
you'll say, "Sure!" It's no big deal and no weight should be attached
to it. It's only dinner, for God's sake. Yet in Britain, mostly what happens seems
to be that people meet at work. If there's a little something there, then they
hang out together and, all of a sudden, they're boyfriend and girlfriend.
It would be a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
now had they not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin
with. I learned my lesson at 24.
[on daughter Apple's accent] She says "Mummy"
instead of "Mommy", I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying
"basil" and "pasta" the English way, as that really drives
me nuts.
[on the paparazzi] If I have my daughter in the car and they
are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take
pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they
do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will
have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.
[in Style magazine, 9/06, on Madonna] She has
evolved with so much wisdom and grace that I would say my favorite Madonna is
today's Madonna. She's a beautiful product of all her explorations and
incarnations.
I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.
My father found joy in feeding the people he loved -
genuine, bursting happiness. He instilled in me the idea that a meal made for
your family is an expression of love.
[on the "scenery" in View from the Top
(2003)] It's like, all of a sudden, I'm in underwear for half the movie.
When you're having dinner with your kids and your husband
and someone says something funny or your dying laughing because your
three-year-old made a joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's
real happiness.
Women really need to examine why they're so vitriolic to
other women.
Salary:
|
Shakespeare in
Love (1998)
|
$750,000
|
|
Possession (2002)
|
$5,000,000
|
|
View from the Top (2003)
|
$10,000,000
|
|
Infamous (2006)
|
$3,600,000
|
