Gwyneth Paltrow
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Los Angeles, California , 27 September 2020
- Assiociated with: Chris Martin
Senorita Gwyneth - 03/02/01
Gwyneth Paltrow really is the girl that has it all. To top off the Oscar, the rock star boyfriend and the millions in the bank, now a whole town wants to adopt her.
Gwyneth Paltrow has raised the profile of a small Spanish town, Talavera de la Reina, after being a frequent visitor since taking a Spanish language course there aged fifteen.
Mayor Jose Francisco Rivas said that she was an ’excellent ambassador’ for the town which is south-west of Madrid. She is expected to attend the adoption ceremony whilst visiting Europe in March.
Naked lunch - 07/01/03 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed she eats in the nude to make herself more aware of how many calories she’s consuming. Boyfriend Chris Martin must have enjoyed his Christmas lunch then..
Paltrow and Law set for new sci-fi thriller - 09/12/02
Belgravia resident Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law are to co-star in a new science fiction thriller. They will both star in The World Of Tomorrow which is described as a big-budget "retro sci-fi" movie like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The film is set at the beginning of the 20th century, and follows Paltrow’s reporter and Law’s pilot who team up on an adventure.
The film will reunite Paltrow and Law who worked together on The Talented Mr Ripley. Work on the film, which is being made by first time director Kerry Conran, is due to begin in London in February.
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The Paltrows moved to Manhattan, New York when Gwyneth was 11 years old, where she would watch her Tony award-winning mother perform at theatre festivals, inspiring the young Gwyneth to become an actress herself, an ambition which resulted in a starring role in a production of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Gwyneth returned to Los Angeles in order to attend the University of California in Santa Barbara as an art history major. While her first film role was in the 1991 film Shout, with John Travolta, her big break came along when she went out one night with her father and family friends Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.
Big league director Spielberg was in the process of casting for his film Hook and that night, he offered Gwyneth the role of Wendy, which she instantly accepted. After her role in Hook, also starring Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, she was cast as the lead in the 1992 mini-series Cruel Doubt.
The budding actress’ resume was soon filling up, with roles in Malice, Flesh and Bone, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Jefferson in Paris, and Moonlight and Valentino. Although audiences were beginning to take notice of Gwyneth, the film that threw her into the spotlight was her role as Brad Pitt’s girlfriend in the thriller Seven, which is where the highly photogenic couple met and fell in love. For a while anyway.
Following this she worked on films including The Pallbearer, Great Expectations, Sliding Doors and A Perfect Murder, although her star status was really confirmed when she accepted the Best Actress Oscar in (some say fake) floods of tears.
After a brief hiatus, Gwyneth returned to the big-screen in the beautifully shot The Talented Mr. Ripley, as Jude Law’s good-hearted girlfriend. And since has filmed Shallow Hal, Sylvia and View From The Top. Following a move to swanky Belgravia where she spends time drinking herbal tea, following a macrobiotic diet and doing Yoga with best mates Madonna and Stella McCartney, Gwynnie fell in love with Coldplay singer Chris Martin who she secretly married late in 2003 while preganant with his baby, which is due this summer.
(Updated April 04)
August 2007