Uma Thurman

At 53 years old, Uma Thurman has this physical status:

Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress and model.

She has appeared in a number of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films.

Thurman appeared in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), following her appearances on British Vogue's December 1985 and May 1986 covers.

She rose to international prominence in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She was often praised as Tarantino's muse, and she returned to be in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 (1998), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2018), one of two other Golden Globe Award nominations.

Thurman was a member of the jury for the main event at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in 2011, and in 2017, she was named president of the "Un Certain Regard" jury of the 70th edition.

Thurman made her Broadway debut in The Parisian Woman (2017–2018). Thurman received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Film (2004), and she was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series by Primetime Emmy Award for her role in the NBC musical series Smash (2012).

Thurman has appeared in The Slap (2015) and the series Imposters (2017–2018).

Early life and family

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1970. Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years, was her father. Nena von Schlebrügge, a high-fashion actress, was born in Mexico City to a German nobleman and a Swedish model. The remainder of her ancestry is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish.

Thurman was raised in Buddhism and spent approximately two years in Almora, a town in the Northern-Indian state of Uttarakhand. She grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she attended Amherst Regional High School and later moved to Woodstock, New York. Ganden (b.) is her three brothers. Dechen Karl (b. 1967) is a student at the University of Dechen (b. ) Mipam (b. 1973) and Mipam (b. 1973). Taya (b. 1978) and a half-sister named Taya (b. ). Janet Smith, 1961, a child from her father's first marriage. Max von Schlebrügge, a Swedish football player, was one of Thurman's first cousin to be evicted.

In a 2004 biography, she was portrayed as an awkward and introverted girl whose appearance and unusual name were praised (sometimes using the word "Uma Karen" instead of her birth name). A friend's mother suggested a nose job when Thurman was ten years old. She suffered with body dysmorphic disorder as an infant. She attended Amherst Public Schools. She discovered her love for acting in eighth grade. Talent scouts loved her performance in The Crucible's production and gave her the opportunity to perform professionally. Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, a Massachusetts preparatory school, before dropping out to pursue a career in acting.

Personal life

Thurman met English actor Gary Oldman on the set of State of Grace; the two married in 1990 and divorced in 1992. Ethan Hawke, a British actor who appeared on the set of the 1997 film Gattaca, married her on May 1, 1998. "Karuna" is Thurman's middle name, according to Hawke's book Ash Wednesday. Thurman and Hawke have two children, Maya (born in 1998), and Levon (born in 2002). The couple divorce was finalized in August 2005 after they separated in 2003.

Thurman began dating London-based French financier Arpad Busson in 2007, and the pair announced their involvement in June 2008. They called off their relationship in late 2009 but recovered quickly afterwards. In April 2014, the couple called off their wedding for the second time. Thurman and Busson have a daughter who was born in July 2012. Thurman and Busson began child custody talks in January 2017, resulting in Thurman receiving primary physical custody later that month.

Thurman was a stalker from 2004 to 2011. He was arrested in October 2007 and found guilty of stalking and harassment charges the following May. He was sentenced to three years in prison for breaching a restraining order by attempting to contact her. He pleaded guilty in November 2011 after spending eleven months in lieu of bail and was released with time served.

Thurman was interviewed in 2017, and she replied, "no comment" after being too upset to comment about the allegations. She joined the "Me Too" hashtag just weeks after, revealing sexual assault and expressing disdistruction for Harvey Weinstein. Thurman revealed in a 2018 interview with The New York Times that Weinstein sexually assaulted her at the Savoy Hotel in London. She also admitted that she had been sexually assaulted at age sixteen by an actress nearly twenty years her senior.

Thurman outlined how she was involved in a significant car crash on the day of Kill Bill in 2003 because Tarantino had insisted she do her own driving stunts. She searched for videos of the shooting two weeks after it was devastating. Miramax would only agree to film her the video if she agreed to her deal "avoiding any risks of my future pain and suffering," she said. She sustained severe neck and knee injuries as a result of the accident. Tarantino later described this event as "the biggest regret of his life." Thurman later confessed on Instagram that Tarantino had apologised to her for the incident and that she has since forgiven him, and she's looking forward to working with him again.

Thurman has been active in many philanthropic and activism causes. She is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has contributed to John Kerry's, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph R. Driscoll's campaigns. She supports gun control laws and was involved in Marie Claire's "End Gun Violence Now" campaign in 2000. She is a member of Room to Grow, a non-profit group that helps families and children who are homeless. She serves on the board of the Tibet House of Representatives. In 2007, she and actor Kevin Spacey appeared at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.

Thurman talked about human rights in China in February 2008, alongside Steven Spielberg and others, describing China's actions and policies as "horrible" and "unspeakable crimes against humanity."

Thurman was one of many celebrities linked to the USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign in 2011, an education campaign tied to this year's East Africa drought. She joined Geena Davis, Chanel Iman, and Josh Hartnett in television and internet advertisements to "forward the truth" about the crisis. "We're fighting for a conservative cause: the right to make a lifelong commitment to someone you love," she said during the same year. Thurman volunteered with "Rhino Rescue Project" in 2015 and went to Southern Africa to help and help relocate the endangered species of black rhinoceros; being in close proximity to rhinos, she described her encounter with the rhinos as "spiritual and surreal."

Thurman's disapproving of his candidacy in the United States Senate special election in Alabama in December 2017 expressed her disapproving of his candidacy in the United States Senate special election in Alabama.

Thurman wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on September 2021 opposing the Texas Heartbeat Act, an abortion prohibition that went into place earlier this month. After being "accidentally impregnated by a much older man," she called the bill a "human rights crisis for American women." She described the abortion as "the hardest decision of my life," but continued that it "allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wished and needed to be."

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Career

Thurman began modeling at the age of 15, and was signed with Click Models. Glamour and the British Vogue cover covers from 1985 to 1986 were among her early modeling credits. With her film debut, Kiss Daddy Goodnight, which was released in 1987, she made the change to acting. Thurman was later cast in three 1988 films, including Johnny Be Well, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and, most notable, Dangerous Liaisons. She appeared in Johnny Be Good, the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, she made a brief appearance as Venus; in honor of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, she briefly appeared nude. Thurman played a naive teenager confronted by a manipulative being in the Oscar-winning drama Dangerous Liaisons, co-starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. The film was a hit at the arthouse and earned Thurman praise from critics and audiences; film critic Roger Ebert found her to be "well cast" in her "tricky" key role. She spent about a year in London, during which she often wore loose, baggy clothing. "There is nothing twitchy teenage-ish about her," Malkovich said of her, "I haven't met anyone like her at this age." Her intelligence and poise make her stand out. But there's more to it. She's more than a little haunted."

Thurman appeared in Henry & June, a sexually provocative drama about writer Henry Miller's marriage and affair with his wife June Miller in 1931 Paris, in 1990. This film was the first to receive an NC-17 rating, partially because some American newspapers refused to advertise films with the new rating, and it did not get much attention in the United States. However, Thurman will get good praise; the New York Times wrote, "Thurman, the Brooklyn-accented June, has a larger-than-life person and makes her larger than life, though its appearance is often as curious as it is demanding." Thurman began filming Dylan Thomas, a tribute to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring her then-husband Gary Oldman and herself as Caitlin Thomas, but the project was canceled soon after filming began. Thurman went on to star in Final Analysis (1992), opposite Richard Gere and Kim Basinger, and as a blind woman romantically involved with a former policeman in the thriller Jennifer 8 (also 1992), alongside Andy Garca.

In Gus Van Sant's 1993 version of Tom Robbins' book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Thurman depicted a young woman with unusually long thumbs. The film was a critical and commercial failure, earning Thurman a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress. "Thurman's peculiarly passive characterization doesn't go much deeper than drawingling and flexing her prosthetic thumbs," the Washington Post characterized her behavior as shallow and remarked. She appeared in 1993 as a waitress opposite Robert De Niro and Bill Murray in the comedy Mad Dog and Glory, and auditioned for Stanley Kubrick while waiting for his eventualized adaptation of Wartime Lies.

Thurman starred Mia Wallace, the wife of a Los Angeles mobster in Quentin Tarantino's neo-noir black comedy Pulp Fiction (1994). Several actresses had been considered for the role, but Tarantino wanted Thurman after their first meeting. The film earned $213.9 million worldwide and gained acclaim, topping several critics' lists of the best films ever made. Mia was the subject of the bulk of the film's promotional material; Mia is one of the 1990s' most popular female film characters. Thurman was "serenely unrecognizable in a black wig," according to the Washington Post, "and] is marvelous as a zoned-out gangster's girlfriend." Thurman was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and then introduced to the celebrity A-list for her appearance. She didn't profit from her new fame by opting not to film any big-budget films for the next three years. Tarantino, who considers Thurman his muse, remarked that she was "up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory" in a 2003 interview with Time magazine.

Thurman's next films, the romantic dramedy Beautiful Girls, in which she demonstrated a keen love interest, and the comedies The Truth About Cats & Dogs, in which she top-billed as a ditzy blonde model, were modest commercial success in 1996 despite a positive critical response. In 1997, Thurman starred opposite Ethan Hawke in Gattaca, a science fiction film set in a future society led by eugenics, where potential children are born by genetic manipulation. Despite poor box office receipts, the film attracted critical attention and became very popular on the home video market. Poison Ivy, a supervillain, appeared in Batman & Robin (1997), and she reprised it in her next film appearance. The film, which costing at $160 million, earned a modest $238 million worldwide and is often regarded as one of the worst films ever made. Thurman's performance, on the film's release, was largely emphasized; the Houston Chronicle observed that "Thurman" often sounds to be doing Mae West by way of Jessica Rabbit," and The New York Times made a similar comparison: "[L]ike Mae West, she blends true femininity with the winking womanliness of a drag queen." She was also selected for Best Sci-fi Actress at the Kids' Choice Awards, earning a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Sci-fi Actress.

In Les Misérables, the 1998 film version of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name starring Bille August, Thurman played Fantine. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film was described as a "intelligent, beautifully crafted adaptation" of the classic novel, and Roger Ebert said "Thurman's performance is the greatest element" of the story, and he liked it. "You may be looking at her through the wrong end of a telescope" during her time as an official agent in The Avengers, a major financial and cultural flop; CNN described her as "so distanced you feel like you're watching her from the wrong end of a telescope." In 1999, she appeared in a stage revival of Molière's The Misanthrope at the Classic Stage Company, portraying a socialite in Woody Allen's romantic dramedy Sweet and Lowdown, opposite Sean Penn. Thurman was on a hiatus from acting at the time when she had her daughter in 1998 but after giving birth to only a few small, low-budget projects; she eventually decided not to perform Éowyn in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings film trilogy," she says, "one of the worst decisions [she] ever made."

Thurman performed The Golden Bowl (2000), based on Henry James' 1904 book of the same name. She narrated John Moran's opera Book of the Dead at The Public Theater in November 2000. Thurman appeared in Vain's real-time drama Tape (2001), and Ethan Hawke played Anne de Montausier, the 17th-century French chef's love affair, and Richard Linklater's real-time drama Tape (2001). For her role in Tape, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. In Chelsea Walls (2001), Hawke directed her in a drama involving a number of artists as they spend a single day in New York's renowned bohemian home Chelsea Hotel. Thurman would win a Golden Globe for her role in HBO's (2002) film Hysterical Blindness, where she was also one of the executive producers. In the 1980s, Thurman played a New Jersey woman looking for love. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Thurman so commits herself to the position, eyes blazing, and body akimbo, that you begin to believe that such a creature exists—an exquisitely beautiful woman so spastic and needy that she resents regular Joes." Thurman has adapted the role to her will."

Thurman returned to Quentin Tarantino in two-part martial arts action film Kill Bill (2003–2004), portraying assassinated Beatrix Kiddo as the victim of her ex-girlfriend. Tarantino wrote the scene specifically for her. When writing the film, he cited Thurman as his inspiration and gave her joint responsibility for the woman, who was born on the set of Pulp Fiction from the sole image of a bride covered in blood. Thurman's main inspiration for the role was the title character of Coffy (played by Pam Grier) and Gloria Swenson from Gloria (played by Gena Rowlands). Both of them are "two of the only women I've ever seen to be truly feminine [while] holding a weapon," she said. After Thurman became pregnant, production was postponed for many months, and Tarantino refused to recast the role. The film took nine months to shoot and was shot in five different countries. The position was also her most demanding, and she underwent three months of study in martial arts, swordsmanship, and Japanese. Kill Bill was supposed to be released as a single film, but it was eventually released in two parts due to its long running time. Both volumes received acclaim from critics and audiences, and they've since grown cult followings. Thurman was likened to "an avenging angel from a 1940s Hollywood melodrama," Rolling Stone compared him to "an avenging angel." She was nominated for two Golden Globes for both entry and two for Best Female Performance, as well as two others for Best Fight.

Thurman had a reported asking price of $12.5 million per film by 2005. Thurman appeared in The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, the children's film, in which Thurman appeared as a cameo, there were three other major film debuts in 2005. Be Cool, the sequel to 1995's Get Shorty, reunited her with Pulp Fiction co-star John Travolta, was her first film of the year. Despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film grossed $95 million. Meryl Stereep played a divorced and lonely businesswoman in the romantic comedy Prime with a much younger man. It later became a modest success, grossing $67.9 million internationally. Thurman played Ulla, a Swedish stage actress aspiring to appear in a new Broadway musical in the remake The Producers (her last 2005 film). Thurman had intended to have another singer dub in her musical number, but she was inspired by her own voice; she was credited for her songs in the film. Though box office receipts were modest, Thurman received critical praise; A. O. Scott of The New York Times said "Thurman as a young star has the only trace of authentic radiance in this controversially and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle."

Thurman played opposite Luke Wilson in My Ex-Girlfriend, portraying a superhero who is stabbed by her boyfriend and then seeks revenge on him. She earned $14 million for the role, but critics sluggishly rejected the film and netted $61 million worldwide. It was a "miscalculation" to make Thurman the antagonist, according to Entertainment Weekly. She makes a comedic appearance in a film that would rather reinflame male anxiety than liberate a nerdette afraid of her powers." Thurman starred in the 2007 film The Life Before Her Eyes as an accident survivor whose guilt caused her present-day life to crumble. It was limited theatrical release and was dismissed by critics as "a confusing, painfully overwrought melodrama."

Thurman appeared in The Accidental Husband, a romantic comedy in which she played a woman who is engaged to another man when she first appeared in 2006. Despite theatrical performances around the world, the film was released on DVD in North America due to financial difficulties with its distributor. In addition, she played the role of a cocaine addict in the British television drama My Zinc Bed, which attracted poor reviews, particularly because of her presence.

In the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day in 2009, she starred as a New York City mother whose problems of marriage, work, and self were shown. "I've never really played a realistic mother before," she said. The independent dramedy only had a limited release to select areas of the United States, and only had $93,388 in three weeks of being released. A. O. Scott, a New York Times columnist, said Thurman's character is "scattered, ambivalent, flaky, and inconsistent," a statement that is fine and elishly conveyed by Ms. Thurman. But what are tolerable quirks in a person can be detrimental to a plot, [...] the transition from loose and scruffy nature to sitcom tidiness is a step forward. Thurman appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2010), as Medusa, a gorgon cursed by Athena.

She was a member of the jury for the main competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and her first film in the year, Ceremony, was released for viewing at selected theaters after its inaugural screening at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. She appeared as a woman on the eve of her wedding's return to an old fling in the independent film (played by Michael Angarano). By that time, she had portrayed herself as a swanky and wealthy mistress in Bel Ami (2012), a trophy wife in the romantic comedy Playing for Keeps (2012), and Lois Lane in a film segment of the anthology film Movie 43 (2013); all films were panned by critics and floated at the box office. Elizabeth Weitzman, a New York Daily News reporter, "She gets stuck in so many small, undeserving causes, one must wonder who's mapping out her future."

Thurman debuted on television in 2012, as she joined the cast of the comedy series Smash in its first season, portraying Rebecca Duvall, a Hollywood actress with limited musical talent, in a new Broadway musical. With The A.V., her career drew critical attention. "Uma Thurman is a lot of fun," club founder Judith Coleman says. "She gives the character some pop," she says, "playing both the shallow, demanding side of fame and the more mature, creative side [...]." She was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series by the Primetime Emmy Awards.

Thurman appeared in Volume I of Lars von Trier's two-part ensemble art drama Nymphomaniac (2013) as Mrs. H, a homeless widow who meets her estranged husband. Despite her brief screen time in the film, Rolling Stone remarked that she was "sensational" in a role that defies "[von Trier]'s mixed views of female power, while Vanity Fair found her to be "downright fantastic," with a note that she "lends the character [...] a great deal of dignity." She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Bodil Award in 2014, and for her role, she received the BAMBI Award for Best International Actress.

Thurman appeared on the NBC miniseries The Slap, the Australian version of the Australian series of the same name that follows the fallout after a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child, and he played Simone, a well-known restaurant critic starring Bradley Cooper. Thurman was elected president of the Cannes Film Festival'Uncertain Regard" jury in 2017 for "works that have a unique perspective and aesthetic," with a recurring role on Bravo's dark comedy series Imposters, which ran for two seasons.

Thurman performed In The Parisian Woman, Beau Willimon's first Broadway appearance. The actress played herself, her past, her marriage, and an uncertain future in Washington, D.C. The play spanned 141 performances, including previews, from November 2017 to March 2018, gaining mixed critical feedback and what was described as "good" box-office returns by Playbill. "Unlike many actors whose expertise stems from films, [Thurman] has no difficulty comprehending and projecting, even a jury-rigged character like [hers]. Her intelligence and, ultimately, her inherent beauty, make it possible to worry about someone you do not believe in." She received the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Leading Actress in a Play for her role.

Con Is On, an independent heist comedy Thurman filming in 2015, opposite Tim Roth, was published on May 4, 2018. After fleeing from a notorious Russian gangster, both actors planned a jewel heist in Los Angeles. In his psychological thriller film The House That Jack Built, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2018, she reunited with director Lars von Trier to play the first victim of a serial killer in the 1980s. Uma portrayed Madame Dudut, the eccentric headmistress of a befuddled school for troubled students, in her forthcoming film Down a Dark Hall (2018), directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Variety wrote about her latest film, saying that she "cuts an elegant figure [...] but her somewhat unconvincing villain may have used more notes of mystery and humor."

In the Netflix supernatural horror film Chambers, which was released on April 26, 2019, Thurman played a grieving mother. Alex McLevy of The A.V. is a writer who writes for The A.V. Club's president thought she sold "the hell out of [her] often ridiculous role," which he described as "over-written" as part of a general mixed reaction. Thurman received a lifetime honorary award at the David di Donatello Film Awards in Italy, as well as appearing in Helene Alving's role in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2019.

Thurman reunited with Robert DeNiro, her co-star in Mad Dog and Glory, in which she played the daughter of his recently widowed mother. Originally shot in May 2017, the film took a long post-production due to the closure of The Weinstein Company, the original distributor, but by 101 Studios, it was released theatrically in North America on October 9, 2020. Despite poor reviews, The War with Grandpa earned US$40 million worldwide, which was considered a success during the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, she appeared as the narrator of The Age of Nature, a three-part documentary film series that aired on PBS.

Thurman appeared on Apple's television+ thriller Suspicion, which premiered on February 4, 2022, as an American media mogul whose son is kidnapped. Despite being heavily advertised, the show received mixed critiques from critics, who collectively stated that she "was barely involved in it at all." In The Battle For Uber, Brian Koppelman and David Levien's first season of an anthology drama television series that debuted on Showtime on February 27, 2022, she portrayed Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of The Huffington Post. Although CNN's Bryan Lowry lauded Thurman's attempts at a Greek accent, Guardian reporter Adrian Horton characterized her appearance as "a cringey caricature" of Huffington. Thurman made a comeback to film in the Disney+ original film Hollywood Stargirl, which was released on June 3, 2022 on the streaming website, and starring Roxanne Martel.

She is currently filming a scene as an art dealer in the forthcoming crime drama The Kill Room, starring Pulp Fiction co-star Samuel L. Jackson. Ellen Claremont, the fictional US president, would be featured in the Amazon Prime romantic-comedy film Red White & Royal Blue in June 2022. Charlize Theron appeared in the sequel to The Old Guard later this month.

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