Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 27, 1972, the daughter of TV producer Bruce Paltrow and Tony-winning stage and screen actress Blythe Danner. Her arts-loving parents moved the family to New York City when she was 11 years old, resulting in Paltrow and her younger brother Jake being towed (sometimes against their will) to downtown experimental theater productions and uptown operas. After spending countless summers watching her mother perform at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Paltrow made her own professional stage debut there in 1990; the same year she graduated from the exclusive Spence School. From her Upper East Side townhouse, Paltrow headed back to California and a semester at the University of California in Santa Barbara before deciding that she really preferred to be down in her hometown pursuing an acting career. A pregnant Paltrow managed to complete filming of the retro-styled action adventure "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004), before the couple's daughter Apple was born in May of 2004. The new mom and her co-star Jude Law earned good reviews and sizeable box office receipts for the tale of Sky Captain (Law) and intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) fending off giant robots in 1930s-era New York. However after "Sky Captain," relocated London resident Paltrow began to limit her film work, only surfacing in 2005 to revise her acclaimed London stage role in the film adaptation "Proof" (2005). She gave an outstanding performance and carried the weight of the film on her shoulders, proving that her earlier award-winning performances were no fluke - lest her commercial outings since that time suggest otherwise. In 2006, Paltrow enjoyed a supporting role in "Infamous," that year's second biopic about Truman Capote, and another supporting role in the unsuccessful adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir, "Running with Scissors.Paltrow gave birth to a son, Moses, in the spring of 2006 and returned to star billing in 2008 with the heavily marketed comic book adaptation of "Iron Man," in which she sparkled as Pepper Potts, the woman behind Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who leads a double life as an ironclad crime fighter. Also that year, she launched a weekly online newsletter called GOOP, which focused on her upscale lifestyle and encouraged readers to "nourish the inner aspect," while they "Make, Go, Get, Do, Be and See." The website featured everything from recipes for holiday leftovers and her travels to Europe, to advice on how to invest money and what to expect while undergoing a three-week cleansing program. The site was widely ridiculed by several media outlets, which slammed the actress for preening about having a high-flying lifestyle most others could never even dream of. Meanwhile, she went back to what she did best, starring in the romantic drama "Two Lovers" (2009), playing the neighbor of a suicidal man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with her despite her romance with a married man (Elias Koteas). Paltrow's performance earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She next reprised Pepper Potts for the highly anticipated sequel, "Iron Man 2" (2010), which earned an astounding $130 million overseas prior to its American release. On the small screen, she joined the cavalcade of guest stars on the pop phenomenon, "Glee" (Fox, 2009- ), playing a substitute teacher who fills in for glee club leader Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison). She later reprised the high-profile role and earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Meanwhile, back in features, she joined a cast that included Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet and Jude Law for Steven Soderbergh's disease thriller "Contagion" (2011). .

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