Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow Katherine ( born September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is Golden Globe and Academy Award winner.
- 2.1 Films
- 2.2 television
Life and career
Paltrow was born as the daughter of film director and television producer Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner. She has a brother named Jake Paltrow, who is also involved in the film industry, and a cousin named Katherine Sian Moennig, also an actress. As Paltrow was 15 years old, she spent a year in Spain. Since then, she is fluent in Spanish, on 12 April 2003, she was made an honorary citizen of their city exchange Talavera de la Reina. She graduated from the High School and then attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied art history. She broke off his studies and devoted himself to acting, because she had worked with her mother earlier in plays and talent proved it.
In 1990, Paltrow made her professional stage debut. Her first movie role in Shout (1991 ) on the side of John Travolta. In the same year she played the young Wendy in the fantasy movie Hook under the direction of her godfather Steven Spielberg. Smaller roles they had in the thrillers Flesh And Bone - A bloody Heritage ( 1993) and Malice - An intrigue (1993 ) with Nicole Kidman.
Larger notoriety she gained in 1995 by a supporting role in Seven alongside Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The film was an international box office success and brought Paltrow was nominated for a Satellite Award. In 1996, she played the title role in the film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, for which she received positive reviews. 1997 Paltrow was talking for the role of Rose in the drama Titanic by James Cameron, but which was then occupied with Kate Winslet.
1998 succeeded Paltrow international breakthrough with the lead role of Viola De Lesseps in the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love, in which she the fictional girlfriend of William Shakespeare played (Joseph Fiennes ). The film was both critics and the audiences a success, and Paltrow was honored for her performance with numerous film awards. She was among other things the Oscar for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. In 1999, she was seen on the side of Jew Law, Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett in the drama The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2000, she starred alongside Ben Affleck in the movie Love Bounce - A chance for love. In 2001, she starred as Margot Tenenbaum in the ensemble film The Royal Tenenbaums and played alongside Jack Black starred in the comedy Shallow Hal, for which she had to wear a fat suit in part. She played the lead role in the unsuccessful comedy View from the Top (2003 ) for which she received 10 million U.S. dollars Gage and starred opposite Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ( 2004).
2006 Gwyneth Paltrow once again received a nomination for the Golden Globe for the drama The proof - love between genius and madness ( 2005). In 2007, she played the lead role in The Good Night, directed her brother Jake. The US-based Forbes magazine counted in 2008 to the best-paid actresses in Hollywood. Between June 2007 and June 2008, she received fees amounting to 25 million U.S. dollars. It ranged together with Reese Witherspoon behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley and Jennifer Aniston in fourth place.
In 2008, she appeared as Pepper Potts in on the action film Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr.. The film grossed over 500 million dollars and Paltrow was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in the Choice Movie Actress. Due to the great success of the film attracted the sequel Iron Man 2 after that in which she repeated her role and again for a Teen Choice Award and a Scream Award was nominated for Best Action Actress. On 13 December 2010 Paltrow was honored with a star (No. 2427 ) on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
In March 2011, she reached with the song Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah! ), A cover version of the same song by Gary Glitter ( 1973), No. 1 on the Australian charts. In the same year she won an Emmy for her guest appearance as Holly Holliday in the American television series Glee.
Paltrow German standard voice actress Katrin Fröhlich.
Personal
After relations with Brad Pitt ( 1995-1997 Engaged) and Ben Affleck ( 1998-2000 romantically involved ) married Paltrow on December 5, 2003 in California, Chris Martin, singer of British band Coldplay. On 14 May 2004, the daughter was born. On April 9, 2006 in New York Paltrow brought their second child into the world. Paltrow and her husband were vegetarians in previous years. However, in her Goop newsletter of February 4, 2010, she wrote under the heading " Meatless Monday": " I am not a Vegetarian" (English: "I'm not a vegetarian "). This statement was used in a 2011 promotional film of the supermarket chain Spar with her.
Paltrow was on its website Goop on March 25, 2014 together with her husband Chris Martin officially the Tennung known.
Filmography (selection)
Movies
TV
Awards (selection)
Academy Awards
Bambi
- 2011: Award in the category Film International
BAFTA Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Emmy
- 2011: Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Glee
Golden Globes
Golden Camera
- 2014: Award for Best International Actress
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2010: Nomination as Best Female Lead for Two Lovers
MTV Movie Awards
Satellite Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards