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Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, she has performed in over fifty film and television productions since the 1980s, across genres that range from comedies and dramas to science fiction and action. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and…
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Born 29 April 1970 · Q125017
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Kill Room review – Uma Thurman and Samuel L Jackson enjoy art-world caper
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Thurman starred as an art dealer in the crime thriller The Kill Room, alongside Pulp Fiction collaborator Samuel L
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Suspicion review – blink and you’ll miss Uma Thurman in this kidnap thriller
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Featured Thurman as an American media mogul whose son is kidnapped
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2020· 1 entry
Scientists named a new species of fringe-toed lizard from southwest Arizona (Uma thurmanae) after Thurman
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2019· 1 entry
Thurman also received a career honorary award at the David di Donatello Film Awards in Italy, and performed the role of Helene Alving in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
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2018· 1 entry
Lead Stories rated the claim “Uma Thurman Says Trump Is The Best President in U.S. history and We Must Respect Him.” False.
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2017· 2 entries
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, Thurman was asked about the scandal; she replied, "No comment," and said she was too angry to discuss it
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Thurman took on the recurring role of a fixer on the Bravo dark comedy series Imposters, which ran for two seasons, and was named president of Cannes Film Festival "Un Certain Regard" jury for "works which offer a unique
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2015· 4 entries
Thurman starred on the NBC miniseries The Slap, the American adaptation of the Australian series of the same name about the fallout after a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child, and played a famed restaurant crit
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Celebrating the actress and her roles in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill
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Thurman joined "Rhino Rescue Project" and traveled to Southern Africa to assist and help relocate the threatened species of black rhinoceros; being in close contact with rhinos, Thurman defined her experience with those
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Opposite Tim Roth, was released on May 4, 2018
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2014· 1 entry
Won the BAMBI Award for Best International Actress
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2013· 1 entry
Thurman was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century" by GQ
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2012· 1 entry
When she joined the cast of the drama series Smash in its first season, portraying the five-episode role of Rebecca Duvall, a Hollywood actress who wants to star in a new Broadway musical, despite having limited musical
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2011· 2 entries
Thurman was one of several celebrities associated with the USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an awareness initiative tied to that year's East Africa drought
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Was a member of the jury for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and her only film in the year—Ceremony—was released for VOD and selected theaters after its initial screening at the 2010 Toronto Interna
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2010· 5 entries
“Eu nunca fui uma boa mentirosa. Quando minto, minha voz muda, meu rosto fica vermelho.”
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On charges of violating a restraining order by attempting to contact her
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“Na época do filme Minha Super Ex-Namorada.”
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“Os repórteres pesquisam sobre você no Google, encontram seis frases suas. A reportagem já está quase pronta quando eles a entrevistam.”
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“Fui uma garota que tietava demais. Uma grande admiradora das artes e dos belos rapazinhos que as criam.”
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2008· 1 entry
Thurman starred with Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Accidental Husband, a romantic comedy where she played a woman who finds herself married while engaged to another man
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2007· 2 entries
Hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with actor Kevin Spacey
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And they announced their engagement in June 2008
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2006· 2 entries
Thurman was awarded and named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature, and for her work and importance as an actress
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Thurman starred opposite Luke Wilson in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, playing a superhero who is dumped by her boyfriend and then takes her revenge upon him
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2005).
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2004).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2004).
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Awarded International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actress for Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2004).
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2003· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Hysterical Blindness (2003).
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And the divorce was finalized in August 2005
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Thurman was engaged to American businessman and hotelier André Balazs from 2003 to 2007 but they never married.
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On the set of Kill Bill, because Tarantino had insisted she perform her own driving stunts
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2000· 2 entries
Remains among her most notable, with The Daily Telegraph voting it the 20th greatest red carpet gown of all time
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Participated in Marie Claire's "End Gun Violence Now" campaign
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1999· 1 entry
Performed in theater in an update of Molière's The Misanthrope at the Classic Stage Company, and portrayed a socialite in Woody Allen's romantic dramedy Sweet and Lowdown, opposite Sean Penn
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1998· 3 entries
Married American actor Ethan Hawke, whom she met on the set of the 1997 film Gattaca
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Doing only a few small, low-budget projects after giving birth; she eventually turned down the role of Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which she considers "one of the worst decisions [she] ev
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Together, Thurman and Hawke have two children, a daughter, Maya (born in 1998), and a son, Levon (born in 2002).
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1997· 1 entry
Thurman starred opposite Ethan Hawke in Gattaca, a science fiction film set in a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence for Pulp Fiction (1995).
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As well as "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" in 1997
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1993· 1 entry
Starred as a waitress opposite Robert De Niro and Bill Murray in the drama Mad Dog and Glory and auditioned for Stanley Kubrick while he was casting for his eventually unrealized adaptation of the novel Wartime Lies
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1990· 1 entry
Thurman appeared with Fred Ward and Maria de Medeiros in Henry & June, a sexually provocative drama about the relationship and affairs between writer Henry Miller and his wife June Miller in 1931 Paris
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1988· 1 entry
“s acting career began at the age of 16 on a New York stage. Her roles in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Quentin Tarantino”
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-04-29.
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