52 years old (Born on September 27, 1972)
American actress and singer; She is famous from Shakespeare in Love.
Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) fame) since she was seven. She does not employ a nanny to take care of her daughter, a rarity among actors in the film business. A couple sued Gwyneth for an undisclosed amount claiming that the actress injured them during an April 1999 car accident. Owned a flat in London, England, UK. After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, she can speak fairly good Spanish.Gwyneth Paltrow's Best Moments
Fun Facts About Gwyneth Paltrow
13 April 2003: Attended the ceremony in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, in which she was named "adopted daughter". She first visited the town as a young schoolgirl and has since frequently returned to it, enamored - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside.
Went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica for one year.
Wears a size 9 shoe.
Spent 70 hours in labor awaiting the birth of her first child.
Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw at their home in the Hamptons.
Godparents of her daughter Apple are Simon Pegg, Mary Wigmore, and Chris Martin's Coldplay band-mate Jon Buckland.
Friends with Stella McCartney.
Her godfather Steven Spielberg is also the godfather of Drew Barrymore.
Her natural hair color is brown.
Was Maid of Honor at Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie.
Played Thomas Jefferson's daughter in Jefferson in Paris (1995). Her mother, Blythe Danner, played Jefferson's wife, Martha, in 1776 (1972), just before Gwyneth was conceived.
Revealed that she named her daughter Apple, because apples are whole, sweet and crisp. The baby's middle name honors her grandmothers, Blythe Danner and Alison Martin.
Was a sister of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.
Attended St. Augustine By The Sea in Los Angeles and the Spence School in New York City.
Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) for one year as an Art History major.
Was hospitalized and then released (14 January 2008).
As part of research for her role as an obese woman in Shallow Hal (2001), wore the 200-pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely. She said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society.
Sticks to a macrobiotic diet.
Her friendship with best friend Madonna ended, because she couldn't get along with Madonna's extravagant lifestyle.
October 1998: Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline's 100 Most.
Measurements: 33 1/2B-25-35. Called "a designer's dream". (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
When she played Sharon Stone on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), Stone felt offended and criticized her performance (1999).
Attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp in Vermont.
Long-time close friendship with actress Mary Wigmore, who also appeared (albeit briefly) in Paltrow's films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Shallow Hal (2001).
Attended Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie in Scotland.
Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes of the medical drama "St. Elsewhere" (1982). Gwyneth's dad, Bruce Paltrow, was the producer of the series.
Met with James Cameron for the role of Rose in Titanic (1997).
Sister of Jake Paltrow; first cousin of actress Katherine Moennig, and Hillary Danner; niece of Harry Danner.
Auditioned for "Vickie" in Reality Bites (1994), but lost out to Janeane Garofalo.
October 2005: Expecting her second child with husband Chris Martin.
Is good friends with Helena Christensen, who was one of the first people to visit Gwyneth in hospital after she gave birth to her son Moses Bruce Anthony Martin.
She and her husband Chris Martin purchased Kate Winslet's North London home in Belsize Park.
October 2002: Met husband Chris Martin when she attended his band's (Coldplay's) concert.
20 December 1996: Engaged to actor Brad Pitt.
Daughter, with Chris Martin, 'Apple Blythe Alison Martin', born on 14 May, 2004, in London, England, UK.
Turned down the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002).
Her son, Moses, is named after a song Chris Martin wrote for her and appears on Coldplay's "Live 2003" album. Moses is also her father's Hebrew name.
Was originally signed on to play Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004), but dropped out.
Her mother, Blythe Danner, was about five months pregnant with the future actress when she appeared in Columbo: u00c9tude in Black (1972) (TV) . The episode also starred John Cassavetes, and aired during the show's first season.
1990: Graduated from The Spence School in New York City.
Practices yoga.
1998: One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
2002: TV commercials and print ads for Spain's department store chain El Corte Inglu00e9s' spring line.
She speaks French quite well, having spent a summer in Paris when in her early twenties.
Her mother Blythe Danner is of Anglo-Saxon descent and her father Bruce Paltrow, being Ashkenazi Russian Jewish, had many generations of rabbis in the family tree.
15 August 1998: Gave $21,000 watch to boyfriend Ben Affleck as a birthday present.
Gave birth to her second child, a boy named Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, in New York City at 9 a.m., weighing 8 lbs., 4 oz (8 April 2006).
2002: Nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Proof", performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England.
Did her own singing in the movie Duets (2000).
Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie The Avengers (1998).
Signed a contact with Estu00e9e Lauder for $10 million to promote its new line of fragrance, "Pleasures".
1996: Confirmed as the next Calvin Klein model.
She earns $3 million per year endorsing 'Estee Lauder' on television and in print advertisements.