Uma Thurman

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Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970), is an American film actress.

1 Life
2 Trivia
3 Quotes
4 Filmography
5 External links

Life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was given a Buddhist upbringing. Her half-Swedish, half-German mother, Nena von Schlebrugg, was briefly married to Timothy Leary (to whom she was introduced by Salvador Dalí) before marrying Uma's father, Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies of British ancestry. She is named after a Hindu goddess. She has three brothers, named Ganden, Dechen and Mipam. For a long time, she was a spokesmodel for cosmetics company Lancôme. As of 2005, she is a spokesmodel for luxurious French fashion house Louis Vuitton.

Uma Thurman left her high school, Northfield Mount Hermon, at the age of 15 to pursue an acting career in New York City. In 1990 she married actor Gary Oldman but divorced him two years later. On May 1, 1998, she married actor Ethan Hawke, whom she had met at the set of Gattaca. Hawke's book For Karuna was dedicated to her. They had two children, a daughter Maya Ray and a son Levon Roan. In 2003, Thurman and Hawke split, and in 2004, the couple filed for divorce. She now resides in Hyde Park, New York.

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Trivia

She is six feet tall.
A Russian rock band, Ne Nashego Mira, renamed itself UmaThurman (Уматурман or UMA2RMAH), hoping to capitalize on her popularity.
She is afflicted with body dysmorphia [1].
Quentin Tarantino is a fan of her feet (Tarantino is rumored to have a foot fetish) which can be seen in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. She also once did a scene involving foot fetishism with Anthony Michael Hall.
Was recently on the October 7, 2005 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she interviewed her mentor Meryl Streep, her costar in 2005's Prime.

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Quotes

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"I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. My father, when very young, was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. He now teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University and is regarded as this country's foremost authority on Buddhism. When the Dalai Lama comes to America, it's my father who is his host. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them." interview in Cosmopolitan, 1995

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