Uma Thurman
- Born: 29 Apr, 1970
This daughter of a Columbia University professor and a former model-turned-psychotherapist is named after a Hindu goddess. Tall, sylph-like and solemn-eyed, Uma Thurman moved to NYC at age 16 and like her mother, began her career as a Click model, posing for numerous magazines. The blonde beauty segued to acting in 1987 with the independent feature "Kiss Daddy Good Night", as a young seductress who entices men only to rob them. Thurman received wide attention as the perfectly buxom, virginal victim of John Malkovich's seduction in Stephen Frears' "Dangerous Liaisons" (1998) before furthering her visibility as the Goddess of Love in Terry Gilliam's madcap opus "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1989).
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- grandfather Karl von Schlebrugge: jailed by Nazis in WWII for not betraying Jewish business partners; maternal grandparent
- grandmother Brigit Holmquist: famous Swedish beauty who posed for statue in Trelleborg; maternal grandparent
- grandmother Elizabeth Farrar: paternal grandparent
- father Robert A F Thurman: teaches Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, NYC; first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan monk
- mother Nena Thurman: was married to Timothy Leary from 1964 to 1966
- son Roan Thurman-Hawke: born in January 2002
- godfather Timothy Leary:
- brother Ganden Thurman: born in 1968; director of Tibet House
- brother Dechen Thurman: born in 1973
- brother Mipam Thurman: born in 1978
- daughter Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke: born on July 8, 1998 in NYC
- husband Gary Oldman: married in October 1990; divorced
- Timothy Hutton: on and off relationship; began during filming of "Beautiful Girls" (1995); no longer together
- husband Ethan Hawke: married on May 1, 1998
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