Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman (April 29th 1970 -) is a American Actrice . She reaches notoriety in 1994 thanks to her interpretation of Mia Wallace in the film Pulp Fiction . Large (1,82 m), beautiful and intelligent, its character of fair dynamic and sensual is worth to him since then taking part in good number of action films of the Hollywood production.

A Bohemian childhood

It was born the April 29th 1970 with Boston (Massachusetts) in a intellectual family circle and Bohème. His/her father, Robert Thurman, taught the religion hindouist with the Université Columbia and was the first American ordered monk by the Dalaï Lama in 1965. His/her mother, Nena von Schlebrugge, of Swedish origin, was model for large a Agence of mannequins before becoming Psychothérapeute. She had married in first wedding Thimoty Leary, the “pope of the L.S.D.”, which had been presented to him by the painter Salvador Dali. Uma thus accepted, like his/her three brothers, Dechen, Ganden and Mipam, a first name inspired of the hindouism, in fact that of a goddess of the light and beauty. In family atmosphere such a marked by the Happy generation, its education could only encourage it to develop its independence and its independence of mind.

It grows in Ameherst (Massachusetts), like with Woodstock and spends some time to India with her parents. At the fifteen years age, it decides to fly of its own wings and share for New York where it is noticed by a producer. In 1987, it begins in a role from vamp in KIS Daddy Goodnight and connects with the comedy Johnny Be Good .

It is pointed out as of its third film, the Adventures of the baron de Münchhausen , where it camps a goddess Venus youthful, pulpy… and released, and especially in the following, dangerous Connections where, incarnating naive Cécile de Volange, it brings the suspicion of perversity required by the role.

A sexy and sporting actress

Without being from the start of large productions or big roles, its first appearances with the cinema are for it the occasion to be confronted with artists of talent auprès of which it refines its personality and its Sex-appeal. It is criminal a psychopathe vis-a-vis Kim Basinger and with Richard Gere in hot Sang for murder of cold blood , a young timid prostitute at the sides of Robert De Niro in Mad Dog and Glory and a hitch-hiker with the disproportionate inches in strange film of Gus Van Sant, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues . At that time, she briefly marries the actor Gary Oldman of 1990 to 1992.

In 1994, the immense success of Pulp Fiction , Palm of Gold in Cannes, is worth an immediate celebrity and a nomination with the to him Oscar of the female best supporting role. The scene of the Twist in the nightclub, and that of the Overdose with intracardiac puncture, both with John Travolta, are particularly remarkable and seizing. It appears then in two comedies, Beautiful Girls and Between dogs and cats , then in the fourth opus missed by Batman & Robin who deserves however to be saved lapse of memory for the music scene where one sees Uma emerging from a costume of gorilla in reference to Blonde Venus of Josef von Sternberg where Marlène Dietrich made in the same way.

It is in 1997, on the turning of Bienvenue in Gattaca , which it meets its second husband, the American actor Ethan Hawke, which devotes a work simply entitled to him, For Karuna . They have two children, a girl Maya Ray born on July 8th, 1998 and a Roan boy born on January 15th, 2002, but are divorced since 2004.

In 1998, the cinematographic version of Bowler hat and leather boots , without being a great success, is the occasion to see it camping Emma Pel in black spindle grinding. She takes part then in historical reconstitutions, the Poor wretches and Vatel , then answers the call of Woody Allen for a light comedy, Accords and dissensions . In the year 2000, it turns under the direction of her husband, Ethan Hawke, for which it is a first test, in a dark film and intimist, Chelsea Walls .

Since nearly one year it is door word with dimensions of Scarlett Johansson for clothing and fashion accessories Louis Vuitton in the United Kingdom

On its side, Tarantino considers, since Pulp Fiction , Uma Thurman like its MUSE, so that at the time of a meal in evening, the idea to remake a film quickly came to them. A few months after, in 2003, it find for the super Hollywood production Kill Bill , where it is the proof of its talent for action film. Demonstration which is renewed in 2004 in the second shutter of this series.

Catalog of films

Rewards

  • 1992 : Cognac with the Festival of police film for its performance in Jennifer 8

  • 1994: MTV Movie Award for “  Better scene of danse  ” with John Travolta in Pulp Fiction
  • 1998: Blockbuster Entertainment Award for “  Better Sci-Fi  Actress; ” in Batman & Robin
  • 2003: Golden Globe for Hysterical Blindness
  • 2004: MTV Movie Award for “  Better combat  ” and “  Better actrice  ” in Kill Bill , left 1
  • 2004: Empire Award for “  Better actrice  ” in Kill Bill , left 1
  • 2004: Saturn Award for “  Better actrice  ” in Kill Bill , left 1
  • 2006: Knight of arts and letters

Many nominations, of which the Oscar in 1994 for “  Best supporting role féminin  ” in Pulp Fiction .

See too

External bond

  • Photographs of Uma on actressarchives.com

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