Bio: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where her father began working in summer stock productions in the Berkshires. It was here that she received her early acting training under the tutelage of her parents. She graduated from the all-girls Spence School in New York City and moved to California where she attended the UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. She soon quit, realizing it was not her passion. She made her film debut with a small part in Shout (1991) and for the next five years had featured roles in a mixed bag of film fare that included Flesh and Bone (1993); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Se7en (1995); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Moonlight and Valentino (1995); and The Pallbearer (1996). 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), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her roles have also included The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Proof (2005), Iron Man (2008), Two Lovers (2008), and Country Strong (2010). She has two children with her former husband, English musician Chris Martin.
Tivia: Her godfather Steven Spielberg is also the godfather of Drew Barrymore.(March 17, 2013) Admitted that she had miscarried her future third child with her now estranged husband Chris Martin and almost died.Met husband Chris Martin when she attended his band's (Coldplay's) concert. (October 2002)Involved in a "Sliding Doors" moment for a woman who missed a train and arrived late for work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. On her way to the train, Lara Lundstrom Clarke jaywalked in front of Paltrow's car, then stopped in the street when she recognized the star. The two stared each other down long enough for Clarke to arrive at the station just in time to see the train pulling out, her life changed by a chance delay and a narrowly-missed train, like Paltrow's character in "Sliding Doors." By the time Clarke reached the World Trade Center, the first tower had already fallen.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.Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw at their home in the Hamptons.She does not employ a nanny to take care of her daughter, a rarity among actors in the film business.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.Auditioned for the role of Susannah Fincannon in Legends of the Fall (1994). She lost the role to Julia Ormond, but Brad Pitt was so impressed with Gwyneth that he later hand-picked her to play his wife in Se7en (1995).Engaged to actor Brad Pitt on December 20, 1996. She broke her much publicized engagement in 1997, citing the fact that neither she nor Pitt felt that they could pursue their respective careers and at the same time maintain a happy marriage. They remain good friends.Had suffered post-partum depression following the birth of her son, Moses Martin on April 15, 2008.Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live (1975) fame) since she was seven.Was the Maid of Honor at Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie.Godparents of her daughter, Apple Martin, are Simon Pegg, Mary Wigmore, and Chris Martin's Coldplay bandmate, Jon Buckland.Mother Blythe Danner mentioned in her Emmy Award acceptance speech in 2015, that Kiefer Sutherland babysat her daughter as a child.Her son, Moses Martin, is named after a song Chris Martin wrote for her and appears on Coldplay's album "Live 2003". Moses is also her father's Hebrew name.Did her own singing in the comedy-drama movie Duets (2000).Has two children with her ex-husband Chris Martin - a daughter Apple Martin (Apple Blythe Alison Martin; b. May 14, 2004) and a son Moses Martin (Moses Bruce Anthony Martin; b. April 8, 2006).Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes of the medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982). Gwyneth's father, Bruce Paltrow, was the producer of the series.She speaks French quite well, having spent a summer in Paris when in her childhood.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.Two of her ex-boyfriends have been named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine: Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck.Met with James Cameron for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997), which went to Kate Winslet.(March 25, 2014) Separated from her husband of 10 years Chris Martin.After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, she can speak fairly good Spanish.When she played Sharon Stone on Saturday Night Live (1975), Stone felt offended and criticized her performance (1999).She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6931 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 13, 2010. She was accompanied by Tim McGraw, her Country Strong (2010) co-star Faith Hill, and Glee (2009) co-star Matthew Morrison.Gwyneth's brother, Jake Paltrow's birthday is a day before hers (9/26 and 9/27, respectively).(April 13, 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 there, enamored - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside.Attended the Spence School in Manhattan, an elite private girls' school that was also attended by Emmy Rossum and Kerry Washington.Friends with Cameron Diaz, Stella McCartney, Liv Tyler, Reese Witherspoon, Tracy Anderson and Kate Hudson.As a teenage model, she appeared in a 1991 ad urging high school kids to use condoms.Greatly admires Johnny Depp. She worked with him on Mortdecai (2015).Auditioned for the role of Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), which went to Jennie Garth.(September 29, 2018) Married her boyfriend of 4 years Brad Falchuk in a private wedding ceremony in the Hamptons following a 10-month-long engagement. The guests included Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Diaz, Benji Madden and Robert Downey Jr..Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline magazine's 100 Most. (October 1998)Second cousin of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in the 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting. Their fathers are first cousins.Is best friends with Madonna.Practices yoga and sticks to a macrobiotic diet.Was six months pregnant with her son Moses Martin when she completed filming The Good Night (2007) and returned to work eleven months after giving birth, in order to begin filming Iron Man (2008).Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie The Avengers (1998), which went to Uma Thurman.Is lifelong friends with Norman Lloyd, who knew her mother, Blythe Danner, for exactly 40 years, right around the same time she was born.Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) for one year as an Art History major.Has 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.She and her husband Chris Martin purchased Kate Winslet's North London home in Belsize Park.Her mother, Blythe Danner, was about five months pregnant with the future actress when she appeared in ��tude in Black (1972). The episode also starred John Cassavetes, and aired during the series' first season.She earns $3 million per year endorsing Est��e Lauder on television and in print advertisements.Replaced Charlize Theron in the role of Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), but after dropping out of the project herself she was replaced by Alicia Vikander.Was originally signed on for the role of Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004), but dropped out. The role went to Kate Beckinsale.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.