Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970)[1] is anAmerican actress and model. She has performed inleading roles in a variety of lms, ranging from roman-tic comedies and dramas to science ction and actionmovies. Following early roles in lms such as DangerousLiaisons (1988), she rose to international prominence in1994 following her role in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fic-tion for which she was nominated for an AcademyAward,a BAFTAAward and a Golden Globe Award. She starredin several more lms throughout the 1990s such as TheTruth About Cats & Dogs, Batman & Robin, Gattaca andLes Misrables.She won a Golden Globe Award for the miniseriesHysterical Blindness (2002). Her career was revitalizedwhen she reunited with director Quentin Tarantino toplay the main role in both Kill Bill lms (2003/2004)which brought her an additional twoGolden Globe Awardnominations and a BAFTA Award nomination.

1 Early lifeThurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her fa-ther, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, a New York-born professor, is a Buddhist writer and academic. Hermother, Nena von Schlebrgge, is a model who was bornin Mexico City, Mexico, of German, Swedish and Dan-ish descent. During her childhood, Thurman and hersiblings spent time in the Himalayan town of Almora,Uttarakhand, India, where the Dalai Lama, to whomRobert Thurman has long been close, once visited theirhome.[2] She grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts,where she went to Amherst Regional Middle School, thenmoved to Woodstock, New York. While her father gavehis children a Buddhist upbringing, she has one of theHindu goddess Parvati's alternative names, Uma, whichmeans light in Sanskrit.[3][4] Regarding religion, shenow calls herself agnostic.[5] She has three brothers, Gan-den (b. 1968), Dechen (b. 1973), and Mipam (b. 1978),and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1960), from her fathersprevious marriage. She is described as having been anawkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tallframe, angular bone structure, enormous feet and unusualname (sometimes using the name Uma Karen insteadof her birth name). When Thurman was 10 years old, afriends mother suggested a nose job.[2] As a child, shesuered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, which shediscussed in an interview with Talk magazine in 2001.[6]She attendedAmherst Public Schools. In the eighth grade

she discovered her love for acting. Talent scouts noticedher performance as Abigail in a production of The Cru-cible[7] and oered her the chance to act professionally.Thurman attended Northeld Mount Hermon School, apreparatory school in Massachusetts, before dropping outto pursue a career in acting.[2][8]

2 Career

2.1 198589: Early work

Thurman began her career as a fashion model at age 15,[9]and signed with the agency ClickModels. Her early mod-eling credits included Glamour and the December 1985and May 1986 covers of British Vogue.[10] She made hermovie debut in 1988, appearing in four lms that year.Her rst two were the high school comedy Johnny BeGood and teen thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight. She hada small role in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,playing the goddess Venus alongside Oliver Reed's Vul-can; during her entrance she briey appears nude, in anhomage to Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. The most ac-claimed of these rst four lms was Oscar-winning dramaDangerous Liaisons, in which Thurmans character of Ce-cile de Volanges is seduced by the manipulative Vicomtede Valmont (John Malkovich). At the time, insecureabout her appearance, she spent roughly a year in London,during which she often wore loose, baggy clothing.[10]Malkovich said of her there is nothing twitchy teenager-ish about her, I havent met anyone like her at that age.Her intelligence and poise stand out. But theres some-thing else. Shes more than a little haunted.[11]

2.2 199093: Career prominence

In 1990, Thurman appeared with Fred Ward and Mariade Medeiros in the sexually provocative drama Henry &June, the rst lm to receive an NC-17 rating. Partly be-cause many American newspapers refused to advertiselms with the new rating, it did not get wide release inthe United States, but the lm won her some good no-tices. The New York Times wrote: Thurman, as theBrooklyn-accented June, takes a larger-than-life charac-ter and makes her even bigger, though the performance isoften as curious as it is commanding.[12]

In 1993, she was for the rst time the main star in GusVan Sant's 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even

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Cowgirls Get the Blues. It was a critical and nancial dis-appointment; Thurman was nominated for a Worst Ac-tress Razzie. The Washington Post described her act-ing as shallow, writing that, Thurmans strangely passivecharacterization doesn't go much deeper than drawlingand exing her prosthetic thumbs.[13] She also starredopposite Robert De Niro in the drama Mad Dog andGlory, another box oce disappointment. Later thatyear, Thurman auditioned for Stanley Kubrick while hewas casting for the unmade lmWartime Lies. Her agentsaid she described working with Kubrick as a really badexperience.[14]

2.3 199498: Continued successAfter Mad Dog and Glory, Thurman auditioned for theQuentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction, which grossedover $107 million on a budget of only $8 million.[15]The Washington Post wrote that Thurman was serenelyunrecognizable in a black wig, [and] is marvelous as azoned-out gangsters girlfriend.[16] Thurman was nomi-nated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the followingyear. She became one of Tarantinos favorite actresses tocast; he toldTimemagazine in 2003 that she was up therewith Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory.[17]

1996 would see Thurman in two moderately successfullms, the rst of which was Beautiful Girls, where sheplayed the female lead and love interest of Timothy Hut-ton and was supported with a high-prole cast (for thattime) of Mira Sorvino, Martha Plimpton, and NataliePortman. The lm was well received by the critics for thescript and acting, particularly that of Hutton and Port-man. It performed moderately well at the box oce.Thurman also starred opposite Janeane Garofalo in themoderately successful 1996 romantic comedy The TruthAbout Cats & Dogs as a ditzy blonde model. In 1997, shestarred opposite her future husband Ethan Hawke in thescience ction lm Gattaca. Although Gattaca was not asuccess at the box oce, it drew many positive reviewsand became successful on the home video market.[18]Some critics were not as impressed with Thurman, suchas The Los Angeles Times, which wrote that she was asemotionally uninvolved as ever.[19]

Her next role was Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin, thefourth of the series. Her performance received mixed re-views, and critics compared her to Mae West. The NewYork Times wrote, like Mae West, she mixes true femi-ninity with the winking womanliness of a drag queen.[20]A similar comparison was made by the Houston Chron-icle: Thurman, to arrive at a '40s femme fatale, some-times seems to be doing Mae West by way of JessicaRabbit.[21] The next year brought The Avengers, anothermajor nancial and critical op. CNN described her asso distanced you feel like youre watching her throughthe wrong end of a telescope.[22] She received RazzieAward nominations for both lms. She closed out 1998with Les Misrables, a lm version of Victor Hugo's novel

of the same name, directed by Bille August, in which sheplayed Fantine. On his review of the lm, Roger Ebertsaid that Thurmans performance is the best element ofthe movie.

Thurman at Cannes, 2000

2.4 19982002: Hiatus

After the birth of her rst child in 1998, Thurman tooka break from acting to concentrate on motherhood. Hernext roles were in low-budget and television lms, includ-ing Vatel, Tape, in which she appeared with then husbandEthan Hawke and for which she was nominated for theIndependent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female,and Chelsea Walls, directed by Hawke.She would win a Golden Globe award for her acting inHBO cable movie Hysterical Blindness; she was also oneof the executive producers. Thurman played a New Jer-sey woman in the 1980s searching for romance. The SanFrancisco Chronicle review said, Thurman so commitsherself to the role, eyes blazing and body akimbo, thatyou start to believe that such a creature could existanexquisite-looking woman so spastic and needy that sherepulses regular Joes. Thurman has bent the role to herwill.[23]

In 2000, she narrated the John Moran opera Book of theDead (2nd Avenue) at New Yorks Public Theater.

2.5 2003present

In 2003 Thurman co-starred in John Woo's Paycheck,which was only moderately successful with critics and atthe box oce.It would beQuentin TarantinosKill Billwhich relaunchedher career. She played assassin Beatrix Kiddo, out for re-venge against her former lover. Tarantino wrote the partspecically for her. He cited Thurman as his muse while

2.5 2003present 3

writing the lm, and gave her joint credit for the charac-ter, whom the two conceived on the set of Pulp Fictionfrom the sole image of a bride covered in blood. Produc-tion was delayed for several months after Thurman be-came pregnant, as Tarantino refused to recast the part.[24]The lm took nine months to shoot, and was lmed inve dierent countries. The role was also her most de-manding, and she spent three months training in martialarts, swordsmanship, and Japanese.[25] It was originallyset to be released as one lm. However due to its over4-hour running time, it was ultimately released in twoparts and became a cult classic[26] and scored highly withcritics. Thurman was nominated for a Golden Globe forboth entries, plus three MTV Movie Awards for Best Fe-male Performance and two for Best Fight. Rolling Stonelikened her to an avenging angel out of a 1940s Holly-wood melodrama.[27]

At the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

The inspirations for The Bride were several B-movie ac-tion heroines. Thurmans main inspiration for the rolewas the title character of Coy (played by Pam Grier)and the character of Gloria Swenson from Gloria (playedby Gena Rowlands). She said that the two characters aretwo of the only women I've ever seen be truly women[while] holding a weapon.[28] Coy was screened forThurman by Tarantino prior to beginning production onthe lm, to help her model the character.[24]

By 2005, Thurman was commanding a salary of $12.5million per lm. Her rst lm of the year was Be Cool,

the sequel to 1995s Get Shorty, which reunited her withher Pulp Fiction castmate John Travolta. In the lm, sheplayed the widow of a deceased music business executive.The lm received poor reviews, and came in below ex-pectations at the box oce. In 2005, she starred in PrimewithMeryl Streep, playing a woman in her late thirties ro-mancing a man in his early twenties. Thurmans last lmof the year was a remake of The Producers in which sheplayed Ulla, a Swedish stage actress hoping to win a partin a new Broadway musical. Originally, the producersof the lm planned to have another singer dub in Thur-mans musical numbers, but she was eager to do her ownvocals.[29] She is credited for her songs in the credits. Thelm was considered a bomb at the box oce, but manypraised Thurmans eorts, including A. O. Scott of TheNew York Times who said: Uma Thurman as a would-beactress is the one bit of genuine radiance in this aggres-sively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle.[30]

Thurman with Quentin Tarantino attending Pulp Fiction's 20thanniversary tribute at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

With a successful lm career, Thurman once again be-came a desired model. Cosmetics company Lancmeselected her as its spokeswoman. It also named severalshades of lipstick after her, though they were sold onlyin Asia. In 2005, Thurman became a spokeswoman forthe French fashion house Louis Vuitton. On February 7,2006, she was also named a knight of the Ordre des Artset des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement inthe eld of art and literature.InMay 2006, Thurman bought the lm rights to the Frank

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Schtzing novel The Swarm, which is in development anddue for release in 2015.[31] When the lm remake TheWomen was in pre-production in 2006, Thurman wascast as Crystal Allen, alongside Annette Bening, JuliaRoberts, Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, LisaKudrow and Anne Hathaway, being directed by JamesL. Brooks, but the director was changed and Thurmanwas no longer part of the cast. In July 2006, she starredopposite Luke Wilson in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Thur-man portrayed a super-heroine named G-Girl who isdumped by her boyfriend and then takes her revenge uponhim. She received a reported $14 million for the role, butthe lm opped. Once again she was well-received, butthe lm was not.In February 2008, she starred opposite Colin Firth andJerey Dean Morgan in The Accidental Husband, a ro-mantic comedy about a woman who nds herself marriedwhile engaged to another man. It seems like archety-pal Hollywood contrivance, but according to Thurman,a similar situation happened in New York.[32] Also in2008, she starred as Elsa in the British lmMy Zinc Bed,in which she plays a cocaine addict, starring oppositePaddy Considine and Jonathan Pryce. In 2010, her movieMotherhood garnering just 88 on 11 tickets on its open-ing weekend.[33] In the United States it earned $93,388 inthree weeks of release.[34]

In 2011, Thurman was a member of the jury for the maincompetition at the Cannes Film Festival.[35] In Decem-ber 2011, James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly re-ported Thurman had joined the cast of NBC's Smash asRebecca Duvall.[36] Thurman appeared in ve episodesof the drama series.[36] Her performance as Duvall re-ceived mostly positive reviews and she was nominated fora Primetime EmmyAward for Outstanding Guest Actressin a Drama Series.

3 Personal life

3.1 Relationships

Thurman met actor Gary Oldman on the set of Stateof Grace; they married in 1990 and divorced two yearslater.[37]

On May 1, 1998, she married actor Ethan Hawke, whomshe met on the set of their 1997 lm Gattaca. Hawkesnovel Ash Wednesday is dedicated to Karuna, Thur-mans middle name.[38] She acknowledged that they hadmarried because she was pregnant seven months attheir wedding.[39] The marriage produced two children:daughter Maya Ray, born in 1998, and son Levon, bornin 2002. The couple separated in 2003,[40] and the di-vorce was nalized in August 2005.[41] When asked onThe Oprah Winfrey Show whether the break-up involvedbetrayal, she said, There was some stu like that at theend. We were having a dicult time, and you know

Thurman in 2011 at Cannes Film Festival

how the axe comes down and how people behave andhow people express their unhappiness.[41] In a 2004Rolling Stone cover story, Thurman and director QuentinTarantino denied having had a romantic relationship, de-spite Tarantino once having told a reporter, I'm not say-ing that we havent, and I'm not saying that we have.[14]

Thurman began dating London-based French nancierArpad Busson in 2007, and they announced their engage-ment in June 2008.[42] In late 2009, they called o theirengagement,[43] but reconciled soon after.[44] Thurmanand Busson have a daughter together, Rosalind ArushaArkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson (nicknameLuna), born in 2012.[45] The couple reportedly called othe engagement for the second time in April 2014.[46]

3.2 Activism and charity workThurman has been involved in various philanthropic andactivist causes. She supports the United States Demo-cratic Party, and has given money to the campaigns ofJohn Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph R. Driscoll.[47]She supports gun control laws, and in 2000, she par-ticipated in Marie Claires End Gun Violence Nowcampaign.[48] She is a member of the board of Roomto Grow, a charitable organization providing aid to fami-lies and children born into poverty.[49] She serves on theboard of the Tibet House.[50] In 2007, she hosted theNobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway with actorKevin Spacey.[51]

5In 2011, Thurman was one of a few celebrities attachedto USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an aware-ness initiative tied to that years East Africa drought. Shejoined Geena Davis, Chanel Iman and Josh Hartnett inTV and internet ads to forward the facts about thecrisis.[52]

4 Filmography

5 Awards

6 References[1] Thurman, Uma. FilmReference.com. Retrieved April

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[3] http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/mwquery/Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (online)Line Number(L=) 37165 (Uma)

[4] http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/uma-thurman

[5] Price, Richard. Uma Thurman has had an Elle of a timein love rivalry, The Courier-Mail, July 12, 2008.

[6] Kahn, Sherry. Golden Girl Uma admits to having BodyDysmorphic Disorder, Talksurgery, May 15, 2001, ac-cessed August 16, 2010.

[7] Schoumato, Alex. The life and career of Uma Thur-man, Vanity Fair, January 1996.

[8] Prominent Alumni | Northeld Mount Hermon. Nmh-school.org. Retrieved August 2, 2011.

[9] Uma on Men, Movies and Motherhood, HarpersBazaar, March 1998.

[10] Uma Thurman Biography, Biography Channel, Re-trieved October 18, 2011.

[11] "'Dangerous Liaisons violated beauty, Uma Thurman, 18,is a little risky herself, People Weekly, February 6, 1989.

[12] Maslin, Janet. A Writers Awakening to the Erotic, TheNew York Times, October 5, 1990.

[13] Brown, Joe. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, The Wash-ington Post, May 20, 1994.

[14] Hedegaard, Erik. A Magnicent Obsession, RollingStone, April 29, 2004.

[15] Pulp Fiction, Box OceMojo, accessed August 16, 2010.

[16] Desson Howe. Pulp Fiction, The Washington Post, Oc-tober 14, 1994.

[17] Tyrangiel, Josh. The Tao of Uma, Time, September 22,2003.

[18] Gattaca, Crazy for Cinema, accessed August 16, 2010.

[19] Mathews, Jack. Cautionary Tale in Genetically Pure'Gattaca'", The Los Angeles Times, October 24, 1997.

[20] Maslin, Janet. Batman and Robin, The New York Times,June 20, 1997.

[21] Millar, Je. If you like them busy, this 'Batman' is foryou, Houston Chronicle, June 19, 1997.

[22] Tatara, Paul. Review: 'The Avengers is retro-boring,CNN, August 21, 1998.

[23] A repulsive beauty in '80s Jersey Thurmans histrionicst 'Hysterical Blindness well, San Francisco Chronicle,August 23, 2002.

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[25] Malanowski, Jamie. Catching up with Uma Thurman,USA Today, October 5, 2003.

[26] Kill Bill, Boxocemojo.com, accessed August 16,2010.

[27] Dana, Will. Kill Bill Vol. 2 review, Rolling Stone, July28, 2004.

[28] Downey, Ryan J. What Made Kill Bill, MTV News,June 11, 2004.

[29] WENN daily news, IMDb, April 1, 2005.

[30] Scott, A.O. "'The Producers, Again (This Time WithUma)", The New York Times, December 16, 2005.

[31] The Swarm (2011)", IMDb, April 25, 2010.

[32] Uma Thurman: A Decent Proposal, STV, February 27,2008.

[33] Hill, Anita. The Uma Thurman lm so bad it made 88on opening weekend, The Guardian, March 26, 2010.

[34] Motherhood, BoxOceMojo, August 16, 2010.

[35] The Jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes. Festival deCannes. April 20, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.

[36] Hibberd, James (December 8, 2011). Uma Thurmanjoins NBCs 'Smash'". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc.Retrieved April 3, 2012.

[37] Uma Thurman to wed again, The Seattle Times, June 28,2008.

[38] Piccalo, Gina; Roug, Louise (July 26, 2002). Their Kindof Reality. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 16,2011.

[39] Uma Thurman Worried About Marriage, WENN, Au-gust 29, 2001.

[40] Halle and hubby separate; Uma 'holding up' after Ethansplit; Will Smith parties in London. San FranciscoChronicle. October 2, 2003. Archived from the originalon October 13, 2003. Retrieved February 5, 2009.

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[41] Silverman, Stephen M. (October 7, 2005). Uma CallsSplit from Ethan 'Excruciating'". People. Retrieved July17, 2013.

[42] Singh, Anita (June 27, 2008). Actress Uma ThurmanEngaged to Arpad Busson. Daily Telegraph (London).Retrieved July 16, 2012.

[43] Hamm, Liza; Lye Miga, Bethany (December 8, 2009).Uma Thurman Calls O Engagement. People. Re-trieved October 12, 2014.

[44] Uma Thurman Expecting Third Child, People, February27, 2012.

[45] Uma Thurman Daughters Name Revealed. People. Oc-tober 17, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2013.

[46] Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson Call O EngagementAgain. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. April 22, 2014. Re-trieved April 23, 2014.

[47] Uma Thurman, News Meat, Retrieved August 16, 2010.

[48] Stars Join Forces To Ban Guns, World EntertainmentNews Network, December 4, 2000.

[49] Room To Grow board and sta page, Room to Grow,Retrieved August 16, 2010.

[50] Tibet House Board, Tibet House, Retrieved August 16,2010.

[51] Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2007, nobelpeaceprizecon-cert.org, Retrieved July 30, 2013.

[52] Dr. Jill Biden Joins USAID and Ad Council to DebutFWD Campaign for the Crisis in the Horn of Africa. PRNewswire. October 26, 2011.

7 Further reading Bina, Roxanna. "Interviewwith Uma Thurman." In-dependent Film Quarterly. December 8, 2003, ac-cessed January 5, 2006.

Biography Uma Thurman biography, accessed Jan-uary 5, 2006.

Brett, Anwar. Uma Thurman interview Kill BillVol. 2. April 2004, accessed January 5, 2006.

Chavel, Sean. "Uma Thurman interview." UGO.October 2003, accessed January 6, 2006.

Felperin, Leslie. Uma Thurman: Pulp friction, TheIndependent, April 16, 2004.

Fischer, Paul. "For Ms. Thurman, Life is Morethan Just a Paycheck." FilmMonthly. September 22,2003, accessed January 5, 2006.

Hedegaard, Erik. "A Magnicent Obsession."Rolling Stone. April 29, 2004, accessed January 6,2005.

Russell, Jamie. Uma Thurman interview Kill BillVol. 1. October 2003, accessed January 5, 2006.

Sutherland, Bryon, Ellis, Lucy. Uma Thurman, TheBiography. Aurum Press, 2004.

8 External links Uma Thurman at the Internet Movie Database Uma Thurman at Rotten Tomatoes

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