Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrowis an American actress, singer, and food writer. She gained early notice for her work in films such as the thriller Sevenand the period drama Emma. Following starring roles in the romantic comedy-drama Sliding Doorsand the thriller A Perfect Murder, Paltrow garnered worldwide recognition through her performance in Shakespeare in Love, for which she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Paltrow has portrayed supporting, as well as lead roles, in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 September 1972
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.
I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.
It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.
I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.
One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.
I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
It would be easier on them now had they not talked to the press about each other to begin with. I learned my lesson at 24,
Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country's a very divided place right now.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let me act until I graduated from college.
I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow - working in a gallery or an auction house.