Uma Thurman

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UMA THURMAN has proven herself to be one of the most versatile young actresses by playing a variety of compelling characters. The daughter of a psychologist and a college professor, Thurman was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York. She attended a preparatory school in New England, where at fifteen she was discovered by two New York agents. At sixteen she transferred to the Professional Children’s School in New York City in order to pursue an acting career.

Thurman’s entrance onto the mainstream film scene began with Johnny Be Good, opposite Anthony Michael Hall. But it was her role as the goddess Venus in Terry Gilliam’s 1988 fantasy The Adventures of Baron Munchausen which brought her international attention. This striking and versatile actress went on to receive critical acclaim for her portrayal of a virginal 18th century convent girl, Cecile de Volanges, seduced by John Malkovich in Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liasons. The following year she starred opposite Fred Ward and Maria de Medeiros in Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June playing the neurotic and exotic bisexual spouse of Henry Miller. She then played Daphne McBain; one of a trio of Dabney Coleman’s spoiled children in the comedy Where the Heart Is, directed by John Boorman. In 1991, Thurman starred opposite Richard Gere and Kim Basinger as Diana, a conniving therapy patient in Phil Joanou’s thriller Final Analysis. She then reunited with Malkovich in the thriller Jennifer 8, playing Andy Garcia’s blind girlfriend, Helena. In Mad Dog and Glory, she played a barmaid who becomes an indentured servant to Robert De Niro for saving Bill Murray’s life. Her most eccentric movie to date is Gus Van Sant’s film, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, in which she played Sissy Hankshaw, a big-thumbed, bisexual hippie hitchhiker.

In 1996, Thurman received an Academy Award nomination for Quentin Tarantino’s critically lauded Pulp Fiction, in which she played Mia Wallace, a sexy and comedic mobster’s wife. Later that year, she was seen in the period romance A Month by the Lake with Vanessa Redgrave, and the contemporary romance Beautiful Girls directed by Ted Demme. Thurman next appeared in The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Batman & Robin, Gattacca, opposite Ethan Hawke, Les Miserables with Liam Neeson and The Avengers. In the spring of 1999, she made her stage debut in an updated version of Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” at the Classic Stage Company in New York.

Her film credits also include Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, opposite Sean Penn and Samantha Morton; Vatel, opposite Gerard Depardieu and Tim Roth; the Merchant/Ivory film The Golden Bowl, with Nick Nolte, Angelica Huston and Jeremy Northam and TAPE with Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Actress. Uma also starred in the HBO film, Hysterical Blindness, with Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands, which she also produced. She won the 2003 Golden Globe for Best Actress for her portrayal of Debby Miller and was nominated for a SAG Award.

More recently, Thurman was in Quentin Tarantino’s bloody action films, Kill Bill Vols. I & II, in which she played a deadly assassin in search of revenge of the people who wronged her; starred alongside Ben Affleck in the John Woo thriller Paycheck; starred with Meryl Streep in Prime; and starred with John Travolta and Danny DeVito in Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty.

Filmography: Batman and Robin, Be Cool, Gattaca, Get Shorty/ Be Cool 2 Pack, Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill Volume 2, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Prime, Pulp Fiction, The Accidental Husband, The Live Before Her Eyes, The Producers (2005),

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