Gwyneth Kate || About

A tall, wafer thin, delicate beauty, Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, 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. She graduated from the all-girls Spence School in New York City and moved to California where she attended the UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. She soon quit, realizing it was not her passion. She made her film debut with a small part in Shout (1991) and for the next five years had featured roles in a mixed bag of film fare that included Flesh and Bone (1993); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Se7en (1995); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Moonlight and Valentino (1995); and The Pallbearer (1996). It was her performance in the title role of Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) that led to her being offered the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her roles have also included The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Iron Man (2008), Two Lovers (2008), and Country Strong (2010). She has two children with her former husband.

Early life

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and film producer-director Bruce Paltrow (1943–2002). She has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, who is a director and screenwriter. Paltrow's father was Jewish, while her mother is from a Christian background. She was raised celebrating "both Jewish and Christian holidays." Her brother had a traditional Bar Mitzvah when he turned 13. Her father's Ashkenazi Jewish family emigrated from Belarus and Poland,[11] while her mother has Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and some English ancestry. Paltrow's paternal great-great-grandfather was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland, and a descendant of the well known "Paltrowicz" family of rabbis from Kraków. Her half-cousin is actress Katherine Moennig (through her mother). She is a second cousin of former U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08) (through her father). Her uncle is opera singer and actor Harry Danner, whose daughter, actress Hillary Danner, is Paltrow's cousin and close friend. Paltrow recalls their family gatherings: "Hillary and I always had this in common, and do to this day [...] cooking for people we love, eating, hanging out as a family. It's how we were raised. It's what we do." Another cousin is Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, whose spouse is the Israeli-American billionaire Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork.

Her godfather is director Steven Spielberg.

Paltrow was raised in Santa Monica, where she attended Crossroads School, before enrolling in the Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City. Later, she briefly studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out to act. She is an "adopted daughter" of Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where at 15, she spent a year as an exchange student and learned to speak Spanish.  She is also conversant in French.

Filmography

Film

 Year                            Title                                     Role                                        Notes

1991	Shout	Rebecca
	Hook	Wendy Darling (young)
1992	Cruel Doubt	Angela Pritchard
1993	Deadly Relations	Carol Ann Fagot Applegarth Holland
	Malice	Paula Bell
	Flesh and Bone	Ginnie
1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Paula Hunt
1995	Higher Learning	Student	Uncredited[citation needed]
	Jefferson in Paris	Patsy Jefferson
	Moonlight and Valentino	Lucy Trager
	Seven	Tracy Mills
1996	Hard Eight	Clementine
	The Pallbearer	Julie DeMarco
	Emma	Emma Woodhouse
1998	Sliding Doors	Helen Quilley
	Great Expectations	Estella Havisham
	Hush	Helen Baring
	A Perfect Murder	Emily Bradford Taylor
	Shakespeare in Love	Viola De Lesseps
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Marge Sherwood
2000	The Intern	Herself	Uncredited[citation needed]
	Duets	Liv Dean
	Bounce	Abby Janello
2001	The Anniversary Party	Skye Davidson
	Shallow Hal	Rosemary Shanahan
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Margot Tenenbaum
2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself	Documentary
	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Dixie Normous	Cameo appearance
	Possession	Maud Bailey
2003	View from the Top	Donna Jensen
	Sylvia	Sylvia Plath
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Polly Perkins
2005	Proof	Catherine Llewellyn
2006	Infamous	Kitty Dean
	Love and Other Disasters	Hollywood Jacks	Cameo appearance
	Running with Scissors	Hope Finch
2007	The Good Night	Dora Shaller
2008	Iron Man	Virginia "Pepper" Potts
	Two Lovers	Michelle Rausch
2010	Iron Man 2	Virginia "Pepper" Potts
	Country Strong	Kelly Canter
2011	Glee: The 3D Concert Movie	Holly Holliday	Uncredited[149]
	Contagion	Beth Emhoff
2012	Thanks for Sharing	Phoebe
	The Avengers	Virginia "Pepper" Potts	Cameo appearance
2013	Iron Man 3
2014	Virunga	Herself	Documentary
2015	Mortdecai	Johanna Mortdecai
2016	Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids	Herself	Documentary
2017	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Virginia "Pepper" Potts	Cameo appearance
	Man in Red Bandana	Narrator	Voice (documentary)
2018	Avengers: Infinity War	Virginia "Pepper" Potts	Post-production
2019	Untitled Avengers film