Full Name: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Birth Date: September 28, 1973
Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Height: 5' 9"
Measurements: 33 1/2-25-35
Quote: "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."
Gwyneth Paltrow Biography
Gwyneth Paltrow was born in 1973 in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted film director Bruce Paltrow and Tony award-winning actress Blythe Danner. She lived in LA for most of her childhood, where she first tried her hand at acting.
When Gwyneth was 11, the family moved to Massachusetts so her father could work in summer stock productions in the Berkshires. It was in Massachusetts where Gwyneth first started her serious acting. She also spent some time in her early teens in Talavera de la Reina, and can now speak fluent Spanish. She attended the Spence School in New York City, New York. In 1990, she graduated and decided to go back home to the West Coast for college.
In 1990 Gwyneth graduated from The Spence School in New York, NY. She moved to California where she attended the University of California in Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. In 1991, she quit the University of California and began to actively pursue a career in acting.
She made her film debut with a small part in Hook (1991) playing young Wendy opposite Robin Williams playing grown-up Peter Pan. But, it was her performance in the title role of Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) that led to her being offered the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Gwyneth Paltrow Filmography
Dirty Tricks (2007) .... Maureen Dean
The Good Night (2006) .... Dora
Running with Scissors (2006) .... Hope Finch
Love and Other Disasters (2006) .... Hollywood Jacks
Infamous (2006) .... Kitty Dean
Proof (2005) .... Catherine
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) .... Polly Perkins
Sylvia (2003) .... Sylvia Plath
View from the Top (2003) .... Donna Jensen
Possession (2002) .... Maud Bailey
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) .... Gwyneth Paltrow as Dixie Normous in 'Austinpussy'
... aka Austin Powers: Goldmember (USA)
"Saturday Night Live"
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
- Episode 27.5 (2001) TV Episode .... Host
- Episode 24.12 (1999) TV Episode .... Host
Shallow Hal (2001) .... Rosemary Shanahan
... aka Schwer verliebt (Germany)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) .... Margot Tenenbaum
The Anniversary Party (2001) .... Skye Davidson
Bounce (2000) .... Abby Janello
Duets (2000) .... Liv
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) .... Marge Sherwood
... aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title)
Shakespeare in Love (1998) .... Viola De Lesseps
A Perfect Murder (1998) .... Emily Bradford Taylor
Hush (1998) .... Helen Baring
Great Expectations (1998) .... Estella
Sliding Doors (1998) .... Helen Quilley
Emma (1996) .... Emma Woodhouse
The Pallbearer (1996) .... Julie DeMarco
Sydney (1996) .... Clementine
... aka Hard Eight (USA: new title)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995) .... Lucy Trager
Se7en (1995) .... Tracy Mills
Jefferson in Paris (1995) .... Patsy Jefferson
... aka Jefferson à Paris (France)
Higher Learning (1995) (uncredited) .... Student
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) .... Paula Hunt
... aka Mrs. Parker and the Round Table
Flesh and Bone (1993) .... Ginnie
Malice (1993) .... Paula Bell
Deadly Relations (1993) (TV) .... Carol Ann Fagot Applegarth Holland
Cruel Doubt (1992) (TV) .... Angela Pritchard
Hook (1991) .... Young Wendy/Peter's Mother
Shout (1991) .... Rebecca