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She is an adopted daughter of the Spanish city Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where she lived as an exchange student and learned how to speak spanish fluently. Paltrow is a descendant of a famous 17th-century rabbi, David HaLevi Segal of Cracow, through the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch, which produced thirty-three rabbis over several generations. The actress has said she is very proud of being Jewish, and has attributed her father's warmth to his Jewish heritage: Career Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she had a small role in family friendly Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991). She later starred in Se7en (1995), dating her co-star Brad Pitt. Her performance in Emma (1996) received its share of praise. Two years later, Paltrow starred in a film titled Shakespeare in Love, an imagining of how William Shakespeare might have written Romeo and Juliet. The film received critical acclaim, earned more than $100 million in domestic box office receipts and received numerous awards. Shakespeare in Love won the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy, Best Screenplay, and Paltrow won the Globe as Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy. She also won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role from the Screen Actors Guild. Later that year, Paltrow received an Academy Award nomination and won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also surprised many by winning a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She has since had a low-profile, yet steady, film career, with a few notable film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). In an interview with The Guardian on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided her career into those movies she did for love, and those "shite" films she did for money. The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, and Sylvia fell into the former category, whilst View From the Top and Shallow Hal were in the latter. In May of 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estee Lauder's Pleasures perfume. In 2000, Paltrow and Huey Lewis released the single "Cruisin'" as a promotion for the movie Duets. A video was shot and the song became #1 in Australia. She also sung a remake of The Temptations' song Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) with R&B singer Babyface for the movie. In 2002, Paltrow appeared on singer Sheryl Crow's album titled C'mon, C'mon singing with her on the track "It's Only Love". Paltrow has denied rumors that she is working on her album and has already finished recording her first single. The date of the rumored release is unclear but William Orbit, producer of Madonna's album Ray of Light and All Saints Pure Shores, is said to be helping Paltrow on the rumored LP. In 2006 Paltrow expressed her opinion that British people are much more civilized and intelligent than Americans. The millionaire actress said British people don't worry as much about money, and cited living near Madonna, as a sign that being in Britian exposes her (Paltrow) to a better culture. Personal life Paltrow had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck and Robert Sean Leonard. She later stated that she regretted breaking up with Pitt. In an interview with Barbara Walters she stated that she wished Pitt well and couldn't believe he was with her when she was "such a mess." They were together for over three years. On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004, in London. She explained the unusual first name on Oprah, saying, In January 2006 Paltrow announced that, "Since my daughter came along, I've not worked much through choice. And with another baby on its way, I don't think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so either." Her second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on April 8, 2006, by caesarean section in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son's first name can be explained by the song that her husband wrote for her shortly before their secret wedding, called "Moses." It includes the words "Like Moses has the power of the sea, so you've got power over me..." and is about the moment when Martin met Paltrow. In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the death of her father Bruce Paltrow. She practices yoga, and is a vegan as well as following a macrobiotic diet, although she told People in 2005 that, "I'm not as stringent as I was in the past. Now I'll have cheese once in a while or white flour, but I still believe in whole grains and no sugar." She is a good friend of Christina Applegate, but she earned the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance as Stone in a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Stone and her then-husband, Phil Bronstein. Paltrow is also good friends with Madonna and fashion designers Valentino and Stella McCartney. Steven Spielberg is a close family friend. She was best friends with Winona Ryder until her breakup with Brad Pitt. | ||||||||||
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Gwyneth Paltrow in Duets (2000) - Directed by: Bruce Paltrow | ||||||||||
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