Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow

The daughter of noted producer Bruce Paltrow and Tony award-winning actress Blythe Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow was born in 1972 in Los Angeles. When Gwyneth was 11, 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. After graduating from the all-girls Spence School in New York City, she moved to California where she attended the University of California in Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. She soon quit, realizing it was not her passion. In 1990 she made her stage debut in the Williamstown Theatre play, "Picnic". In 1991 she appeared in her first film, El primer grito del rock (1991), with John Travolta. That same year she met Steven Spielberg, who gave her a small part in his film Hook (1991). Her next roles were in made-for-television films, until she won rave reviews for her performance in Flesh and Bone (1993). In 1994, she entered into a relationship with Brad Pitt, the older (by nine years) superstar who gave her a career boost by choosing her to play his wife in the hit thriller Seven, los siete pecados capitales (1995). But it was the title role of Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) that fully tapped Gwyneth's capabilities and established her as a serious actress. She and Pitt broke off their much publicized engagement in 1997, citing as the reason the fact that neither felt that they could pursue their respective careers and at the same time maintain a happy marriage. They remain good friends. Meanwhile, Gwyneth's career has gone through the roof with the release of five glossy films in 1998, including Great Expectations (1998), Si yo hubiera (1998), A Perfect Murder (1998), and John Madden's masterpiece, Shakespeare apasionado (1998). Gwyneth's outstanding performance in the last film marked the greatest triumph of her career to date. She won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	High
1991	Shout	Rebecca
1991	Hook	Young Wendy Darling
1992	Cruel Doubt	Angela Pritchard
1993	Deadly Relations	Carol Ann Fagot Applegarth Holland
1993	Malice	Paula Bell
1993	Flesh and Bone	Ginny
1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Paula Hunt
1995	Higher Learning	Student	Uncredited
1995	Jefferson in Paris	Patsy Jefferson
1995	Seven	Tracy Mills
1995	Moonlight and Valentino	Lucy Trager
1996	Hard Eight	Clementine
1996	The Pallbearer	Julie DeMarco
1996	Emma	Emma Woodhouse
1997	Thomas Jefferson	Jefferson's granddaughter (voice)	TV mini-series
1998	Sliding Doors	Helen Quilley
1998	Great Expectations	Estella
1998	Hush	Helen Baring
1998	A Perfect Murder	Emily Bradford Taylor
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Viola De Lesseps
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Marge Sherwood
2000	The Intern	Herself	Uncredited
2000	Duets	Liv
2000	Bounce	Abby Janello
2001	The Anniversary Party	Skye Davidson
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Margot Tenenbaum
2001	Shallow Hal	Rosemary Shanahan
2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself	Documentary
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Dixie Normous in 'Austinpussy'	Cameo
2002	Possession	Maud Bailey
2003	View from the Top	Donna Jensen
2003	Sylvia	Sylvia Plath
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Polly Perkins
2005	Proof	Catherine
2006	Infamous	Kitty Dean
2006	Love and Other Disasters	Hollywood Jacks	Cameo
2006	Running with Scissors	Hope Finch
2007	The Good Night	Dora
2008	Iron Man	Pepper Potts
2008	Two Lovers	Michelle
2010	Iron Man 2	Pepper Potts
2010	Country Strong	Kelly Canter
2011	Glee: The 3D Concert Movie	Holly Holliday	Uncredited
2011	Contagion	Beth Emhoff
2012	Thanks for Sharing	Phoebe
2012	The Avengers	Pepper Potts
2013	Iron Man 3	Pepper Potts
201?	33 días	Dora Maar	Pre-Production

Television

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Thomas Jefferson	Jefferson's granddaughter (voice)	TV mini-series
1999–2001, 2011	Saturday Night Live	Host/Various	5 episodes
2008	Spain... On The Road Again	Herself	TV series documentary; 13 episodes
2010	The Marriage Ref	Herself – Panelist	Episode: "Gwyneth Paltrow/Jerry Seinfeld/Greg Giraldo"
2010–2011	Glee	Holly Holliday	3 episodes
2011	Who Do You Think You Are?	Herself	Episode: "Gwyneth Paltrow"
2012	The New Normal	Abby	Episode: "Pilot" (cameo/uncredited)