Gwyneth Paltrow: biography
Gwyneth Paltrow is a Hollywood actress who became famous for her roles in melodramas. But the sudden change of role made the actress especially popular - Gwyneth Paltrow played a businesswoman in the blockbuster comic book Iron Man, based on a story about a superhero published by Marvel. The actress's character appeared in serialized sequels as the business partner of the protagonist and as Iron Man's love interest.
Gwyneth Paltrow in her youth
The film “Shakespeare in Love” brought professional recognition to the actress. For the leading female role in this film, Paltrow received an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Gwyneth Paltrow was born in Los Angeles to the family of director Bruce Paltrow and popular actress Blythe Danner. Gwyneth also has a younger brother, Jake, who has become a fairly famous director. There are other famous relatives in the family. Gwyneth and Jake's cousin is actress Katherine Moennig, known for many television series, and Gabrielle Giffords' second cousin is a member of the US Congress. Gwyneth Paltrow's godfather is the famous film director and producer Steven Spielberg.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth grew up in the Californian town of Santa Monica. When she was 11 years old, the family moved to New York, where her mother was offered an interesting job in one of the theaters. In this city she graduated from a specialized school for girls. As a teenager, Gwyneth often attended performances with her mother and twice took part in them herself. The girl’s first appearance on the professional theater stage was the play “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” based on the famous classic novel by Mark Twain.
After receiving her GED, Gwyneth returned to Santa Monica and enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She chose art history as her specialization, but did not complete her studies, deciding to give preference to a career as a film actress.
Movies
Gwyneth Paltrow's first screen appearance was a cameo role as Rebecca in the 1991 film Scream, starring John Travolta. In the same year, she starred in the unusual sequel to the fairy tale “Peter Pan” - the film “Captain Hook” about the grown-up heroes of this story. Gwyneth got the role of the grown-up Wendy.
Gwyneth Paltrow in the film Jefferson in Paris
This was followed by small roles in the thriller “Ready for Anything,” the biography of writer Dorothy Parker “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle,” the historical drama “Jefferson in Paris,” and the famous psychological thriller “Seven.” Gwyneth got more notable roles in the drama Fatal Eight, where she plays a waitress moonlighting as a night butterfly, and in the romantic comedy Someone Else's Funeral, in which she plays the role of Julie DeMarco, the main character's headache.
The actress got her first big character in 1996. In the film adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel Emma, Gwyneth Paltrow played the main role. For her performance in this film, Paltrow received the Satellite Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Film.
Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie Emma
This success was followed by leading roles in the romantic fantasy drama Caution, the Closing Doors, the film adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, the thriller The Inheritance and the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's film Dial M for Murder, which was called Perfect murder". And the next two films gave Gwyneth the opportunity to stand on a par with the brightest stars of Hollywood. Her work in the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley” caused a stream of positive reviews from film critics, and the main female role in the tragicomedy “Shakespeare in Love” gave the actress the most prestigious award - the Oscar for Best Actress. In addition, the actress received a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In the new millennium, the actress began to choose roles only in melodramas and romantic comedies, such as “The Tenenbaum Family,” “Love is Evil,” “Alien Ticket,” “Obsession,” “Proof,” “Good Night” and many others. Most of these films were commercial projects, and Gwyneth does not hide the fact that she chose them for the tempting fees.
Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie "Caution, the Closing Doors"
In 2003, the actress played the main role in the comedy “The View is Better from Above,” where she plays the role of a girl who ran away from home and dreams of becoming a flight attendant. In 2006, in the wake of the popularity of films based on comic books, Iron Man appeared, where Gwyneth appeared as Pepper Potts, who is the assistant to the main character.
The film became a box office success and was followed by 2 sequels in 2010 and 2013. Paltrow's character is minor in these films, but Pepper Potts nevertheless received development and was revealed as an interesting heroine. The girl went from secretary to director of the company, who received the right to manage the corporation independently. Pepper Potts became Tony Stark's love interest, began dating him and broke up, remaining friends, being taken hostage, experiencing dangerous experiments and even being a superheroine.
Difficulties in filming the films were caused by the difference in height between Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr., who played the main role of billionaire Tony Stark, who became the superhero Iron Man. Even without heels, Gwyneth Paltrow is taller than her co-star (the actress is 175 cm tall, and Robert is 174 cm), and since Pepper Potts is a businesswoman and adheres to a formal clothing style, Paltrow appeared in the frame wearing stiletto heels.
Biography
Born 09/27/1972, Los Angeles, California, USA.
American actress, producer
Oscar winner
Childhood
Gwyneth Paltrow, née Gwyneth Catherine Paltrow, was born on September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles, California, in the family of influential film director and television producer Bruce Paltrow, a descendant of the well-known Paltrovich rabbinical family from Russia and the famous actress Blythe Danner.
Since the girl grew up in the family of a famous Hollywood couple, she did not have to choose a profession - it was destined to become a film actress. She never knew what a “sandbox” was, but spent more and more time walking among the scenery. It was more common for a child to see a face made up than a simple one. At the age of seven, the girl first appeared on the theater stage, and together with her mother participated in the play “Picnic.”
Having successfully graduated from a private girls' school in New York, Gwyneth Paltrow entered the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she studied cultural and art history. But in 1991, she made a fateful decision for herself - she dropped out of school and began to take up her acting career.
First roles
Gwyneth Paltrow made her film debut as the temperamental Rebecca in the 1991 film Scream with John Travolta.
A big breakthrough in the film career for the aspiring actress was the offer of the famous film director and great family friend Steven Spielberg for the role of little Wendy in the film “Captain Hook”. Gwyneth Paltrow accepted this offer without hesitation. After “Captain Hook,” in which such stars as Robin Williams and Julia Roberts played her roles, the actress began starring in the leading role of the cheerful Angela in the mini-series “Cruel Doubts,” where her mother played the second leading role.
The list of films in which the novice actress, who at the same time gained more and more experience each time, played, began to grow rapidly. Over the next few years, Gwyneth Paltrow played several memorable roles: the ditzy Ginny in the 1993 film Flesh of the Flesh, the sparkling Patsy Jefferson in Jefferson in Paris two years later.
Film audiences began to slowly recognize Gwyneth Paltrow as a promising film actress. The thriller “Seven,” in which the actress brilliantly played the wise Tracy Mills, the girlfriend of the main character played by Brad Pitt, became for her a kind of “springboard” in her career.
Having already become recognizable by that time, the actress still preferred roles in small films, bypassing the opportunity to work on big-budget blockbusters. In 1996, together with David Schwimmer, Paltrow starred in the film “Someone else's Funeral” and in the same year, with incredible success, she played the main role of Emma Woodhouse in the film “Emma”, directed by Douglas McGrath based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
Success
The fame of a movie star came to the young actress in full after the release of the love melodrama “Shakespeare in Love” by John Madden in 1998. The role of the young girl Viola, who passionately wants to become an actress, who hates herself for being a woman: during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the stage was a place intended exclusively for men, in this film Gwyneth Paltrow became an Oscar winner.
Having received an Oscar for Best Actress and an impeccable performance in the film Shakespeare in Love at the age of 26, the famous actress made a bold decision for herself. She didn't act at all for a whole year. Over this year, having reconsidered her attitude to work, the actress created certain film standards for herself. She firmly decided that “you can’t lower the bar, it’s better not to act at all and not have the money that she was paid, than to “shine” in low-level films or play roles that you don’t like at all.”
Following the tasks set for herself, the talented actress not only repeated her success, but also increased it by starring in the leading role of the girl Helen, whose fate at a certain moment split in two, and both heroines began to lead their own lives in different dimensions, in a fantastic melodrama with a very interesting script "Be careful, the doors are closing".
The most intense year of her film career in 1998, Gwyneth Paltrow ended filming the thriller “A Perfect Murder” together with Michael Douglas. It was a very “strange movie couple”; Douglas starred as the husband of Gwyneth’s character Emily Bradford Taylor; in real life, the actor was a great friend of her parents. However, this was not the actress’s first role where the movie character was much older than the performer herself, but Gwyneth Paltrow liked to create the image of a mature girl, and most importantly, she did it well on camera.
In 1999, a new film appeared with the participation of Gwyneth Paltrow - “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Marge Sherwood, based on the detective novel by Patricia Highsmith. In this film, the actress starred surrounded by young actors Jude Law and Meta Damon.
The movie star starred exclusively in the genres of comedy or melodrama, and most often in romantic comedies. Gwyneth Paltrow successfully found her niche and here she certainly had no equal. Many screenwriters saw Gwyneth in advance as the main character of their opuses. This is smart Liv in “Duets”, and impulsive Abby in “Someone else’s Ticket”, and eccentric Margot Tenenbaum in “Royal Tenenbaum’s Family”. Of course, Rosemary with her French ease in the film “Love is Evil”, and, of course, the passionate Maud Bailey in “Obsession”, and the incomparable Donna in “The View Is Better from Above”.
At the pinnacle of glory
Gwyneth Paltrow's creative career was in full swing. The actress continued to actively act in film. During 2004, three films with her participation were released, and this time, a little tired of frivolous melodramas and comedies, the actress tried herself in the dramatic genre.
The plot of the film “Sylvia”, in the form of a beautiful, albeit tragic story, was built on the circumstances of the lives of two real people: the great American poet Sylvia Plath, it was this wonderful woman who became Paltrow’s heroine, and her husband, the poet Ted Hughes. By the way, Sylvia Plath's daughter was far from enthusiastic about the idea of filmizing the life of her mother, who committed suicide in 1963 due to the fact that her husband, whom she passionately loved, left her.
Then another drama came out - “Proof” directed by John Madden, a longtime friend of the actress from the film “Shakespeare in Love”. This time, Gwyneth Paltrow's heroine, twenty-year-old Catherine, tried to save the life of her dying father, one of the most recognized mathematicians in the world, who had been suffering from bouts of schizophrenia in recent years. The level-headed daughter suspected that she might have inherited her father's intelligence along with his madness.
In addition, the talented actress starred in the science-fiction thriller “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” in a story about a reporter who suddenly noticed that many of the most gifted scientists were beginning to disappear one after another. It was this meticulous journalist who was truthfully played by Gwyneth Paltrow. “I have great respect for professional journalists, and it was very interesting for me to play this role. But if we talk about those people who write for American and English tabloids, then this is a completely different story...”, the brilliant actress noted smiling at the film premiere.
Gwyneth Paltrow turned out to be capable of such an interesting and complex business as producing. One of her creations in this area was the historical film “Marlene Dietrich”, in which the actress played the main role of Marlene Dietrich herself.
Personal life
MovieLine once called Gwyneth Paltrow "the most arrogant and smug" person in Hollywood. Although people close to her say that in life she is a very attentive and sincere girl. Be that as it may, the actress is still equally loved by both viewers and film critics.
In Gwyneth Paltrow's personal life, everything turned out just fine. After breaking up with Brad Pitt, she had several short-lived romances with Hollywood's top hunks, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck.
Then on December 5, 2003, the actress married Chris Martin, a musician in the rock band Coldplay. In 2004, the couple had a daughter, Apple, and in 2006, a son, Moses. She became a mother, got married, is happier than ever, and it seems to her that people are going crazy from such incredible happiness. She began turning down three roles a day. Everyone needs her, but she doesn’t need anyone, only her husband and children.
Interesting Facts
Along with her work in films, Gwyneth Paltrow successfully acted as a model. In 1996, she actively collaborated with Calvin Klein and appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. Gwyneth was awarded the Fashion Awards as the most stylish woman of the year.
Previously, the movie star smoked 90 cigarettes a day, real self-destruction! She quit when she was almost 25 years old, and since then she only allowed herself one cigarette a month at parties. Naturally, having become pregnant, she finally gave up cigarettes and is not going to return to this poison.
Gwyneth Paltrow visited Russia twice - in Moscow and St. Petersburg, she really liked the country. Especially the fabulous city of St. Petersburg. The actress was shocked by the splendor of the Hermitage and the Catherine Palace.
How much is Gwyneth Paltrow worth? “Proof” - 2005, $10,000,000. “View from Above” - 2003, $10,000,000. The actress refused to star in Charlie’s Angels in 2003, considering the fee of $12,000,000 too small for her. Shakespeare in Love - 1998, $750,000
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Sources of information: “Encyclopedia of Cinema of Cyril and Methodius, version 2002. “Biography”, article, Dmitry Chernyshov, “People’s History” website. "G. Paltrow. Personal life is a terrible secret,” article, Margarita Stewart, “Arguments and Facts” website. “Mom said: “If you want to become an actress, make the camera fall in love with you,” article, Galya Galkina, Izvestia website. “With an “apple” from a loved one,” Alexander Nevsky, “Arguments and Facts” website.
Personal life
Gwyneth Paltrow's first famous boyfriend was American actor Robert Sean Leonard, whom she dated in the early 90s. In 1994, Gwyneth met Brad Pitt, and the couple began a long-term romance. An engagement was even announced, but after 3 years the young people broke off the relationship, which Gwyneth subsequently publicly regretted more than once. Her relationship with actor and director Ben Affleck also lasted for 3 years.
Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow
In 2002, the actress met musician Chris Martin. The couple dated for about a year, after which they got married in December 2003. In this marriage, the couple had a daughter, Apple, and a son, Moses. Gwyneth and Chris lived together for 10 years, then they communicated at a distance for another year, but in the spring of 2020 they officially divorced.
Almost immediately it became known about Gwyneth’s relationship with television producer Brad Falchuk, who had been known to her since the time of filming the TV series “Glee.”
Gwyneth performed as a singer several times, recording songs for films with her participation. She first recorded the single “Cruisin” in a duet with Huey Lewis for the film “Duets”. The song managed to top the Australian charts. And in the film “I'm leaving - don't cry” she performs 4 songs: “Country Strong”, “Shake That Thing”, “Coming Home” and “Me And Tennessee”. In addition, her voice can be heard on the album “C'mon, C'mon” by American singer Sheryl Crow, where she sings the song It's Only Love in a duet with Sheryl.
Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow
Since 2005, Gwyneth Paltrow has been collaborating with the perfume company Estée Lauder, being the face of one of the cosmetics lines.
The actress maintains an official account on Instagram, which has 3.4 million followers.
45-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow is getting married
The actress is engaged to famous Hollywood producer Brad Falchuk. Photo: Gwyneth Paltrow Instagram.
Gwyneth Paltrow intends to walk down the aisle again: information about the actress’s engagement to the famous Hollywood producer Brad Falchuk was leaked to the Western media. The 45-year-old star has been dating him for several years, and now the couple has decided to legalize their relationship.
46-year-old Falchuk is a well-known figure in Hollywood: he is the producer and screenwriter of the popular series “American Horror Story.” Paltrow and Falchuk became friends when they worked together on the set of Glee in 2014. But their romance really flared up in September 2020.
“They both knew that this would happen,” a source close to them told US Weekly about the couple’s future wedding. “But it didn’t really matter to them.” They are already happy, and besides, they both had long marriages before this. They were in no hurry.
Gwyneth was previously married to musician Chris Martin, with whom she lived for 11 years. The ex-spouses have two children - 13-year-old Apple and 11-year-old Moses. Falchuk was married to television producer Suzanne Falchuk. They also have two teenage children, Isabella and Brody.
Gwyneth was previously married to musician Chris Martin.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have been trying to save their marriage for a long time. We went to a family consultant, tried to spend time together, but, alas, this did not help: the couple divorced in July 2016. The first alarm bells in their family life sounded when one of the famous magazines awarded Gwyneth the humiliating title of “most unsexy celebrity,” and the tabloids dubbed her a “pale moth,” boring and colorless. In addition, the couple practically stopped appearing together in public, and Paltrow looked upset and depressed.
Gwyneth has always been a “good girl”: in her quest for a slim figure and a healthy lifestyle, the actress stopped eating meat many years ago and forced her husband to become a vegetarian, putting him on a macrobiotic diet. And what did the “grateful” spouse do shortly after their breakup? In an interview with Radio 2, Chris Martin said he stopped being a vegetarian immediately after his split from Gwyneth. Allegedly, he did not eat meat for a long time, but due to “certain circumstances” he changed his preferences. Presumably, Paltrow was deeply hurt by her ex's confession.
Unlike Gwyneth, her ex-husband is in no hurry to tie the knot. After the divorce, Chris Martin was credited with affairs with many Hollywood beauties, from Charlize Theron to Jennifer Lawrence.
Before Chris Martin, Gwyneth had a high-profile romance with Brad Pitt - they dated from 1995 to 1997.
“My husband likes to repeat: I married Brad Pitt’s girlfriend,” the actress once said in an interview (at that time Gwyneth was still married to Chris).
Brad and Gwyneth were together for almost three years, of which the couple were officially engaged for four months. Pitt and Paltrow met on the set of David Fincher's thriller "Seven", in which they played a married couple.
“I was madly in love with Brad, but everything collapsed due to my fault.” I was young and inexperienced. I regret many of the decisions and actions of my youth, but Brad was definitely too good for me! Now we communicate as friends, although we see each other very rarely,” Gwyneth recently said in an interview with host Howard Stern.
Gwyneth Paltrow with Brad Pitt and his parents at the premiere of The Devil's Own in 1997.
Photo: GLOBAL LOOK PRESS
At the end of their relationship, Brad flew to Argentina for four months to film, and when he returned, Gwyneth returned the ring to him. Rumor has it that they broke up because of Paltrow's affair with her British colleague John Hannah, her co-star in the film Beware the Closing Doors. The actress still recalls that her dad really liked Brad.
“My father was simply killed by the news of our separation in 1997,” she said in the same interview with Stern. — I was practically a child at 22 years old. It was only when I was forty that I began to understand what was what, but at 22... I was not ready, and he was too good for me. I just didn't understand what I was doing.
After Pitt, Gwyneth began dating Ben Affleck - their relationship lasted three years.
Gwyneth Paltrow now
In 2020, the actress returned to the role of Pepper Potts in the next film about the superhero team The Avengers, Captain America: Civil War, which tells about the split within the team due to political and ideological differences.
The film received positive reviews; the main advantage of the film, critics called a well-thought-out plot, including character development, and an atypical conflict, which moved away from the classic confrontation between good and evil for action films and superheroics and shows the clash of the concepts of freedom and security. The film asks viewers to choose a side, as both teams of the divided Avengers remain superheroes and are not shown in the film as villains or characters condemned by the authors.
In 2020, rumors emerged that Paltrow was planning a wedding with Brad Falchuk.
Gwyneth Paltrow
In April 2020, the actress announced that she was launching a new glossy magazine, Goop. The magazine is based on Gwyneth's already existing website of the same name. Paltrow plans to publish the printed version together with the editor of American Vogue Anna Wintour.
Brad Pitt
Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt in the movie "Seven"
Gwyneth and Brad's romance began in 1994 on the set of David Fincher's thriller Seven. The actress was 22, she was very much in love, but she was unable to maintain this relationship, which she later regretted.
“I loved him very much, but he was too good for me. It all ended through my fault, because of my youth and inexperience. And I’m very sorry that I did some things back then: without them, everything could have turned out differently,” Paltrow later said on Howard Stern.
The romance with Pitt, which began very beautifully and developed no less beautifully, came to an engagement a year later, and a year later to the finale. It was Pitt who put an end to it, and this break had a strong effect on Gwyneth: she stopped eating, lost up to 40 kilograms, and eventually ended up in a rehab, where the actress was force-fed through a tube. Thank God, everything worked out, and time, as we know, heals. Now the former lovers are good friends: “I treat him well, and we sometimes meet, although not as often as we would like,” says Paltrow.
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