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7 | ->''"I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely."'' |
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9 | Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, singer, and entrepreneur. The daughter of actor Creator/BlytheDanner and the late director Bruce Paltrow, she made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appearing in films in 1991. After appearing in several films throughout [[TheNineties the decade]], she gained early notice for her work in films such as ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' and ''Film/{{Emma}}'' (in which she played the [[ProtagonistTitle title role]]). |
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11 | Following the films ''Film/SlidingDoors'' and ''Film/APerfectMurder'' , she garnered [[StarMakingRole worldwide recognition]] through her performance in ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'', for which she won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 for her role as Holly Holliday on the Fox hit TV show ''Series/{{Glee}}'' in the episode "The Substitute". |
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13 | Paltrow has portrayed supporting, as well as, lead roles, in films such as ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'', ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'', ''Film/ShallowHal'', and ''Theatre/{{Proof}}'', for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in Motion Picture--Drama. Since 2008 she has portrayed Pepper Potts, the LoveInterest of ComicBook/IronMan in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', particularly the ''Film/IronMan'' and ''Avengers'' films. |
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15 | She has had two children, Apple and Moses, with Music/{{Coldplay}} lead vocalist Chris Martin, whom she was married to from 2003 until they separated (or, [[InsistentTerminology as she put it]], [[MemeticMutation "consciously uncoupled"]]) in early 2014. She met her second husband, Brad Falchuk, on the set of ''Glee''. Since the mid-2010s, Paltrow has stepped back from acting to focus on her lifestyle company Goop and other projects like authoring cookbooks. |
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17 | !!Filmography |
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19 | !!!Film |
20 | * ''Film/{{Hook}}'' (1991) as young Wendy Darling |
21 | * ''Film/{{Malice}}'' (1993) as Paula Bell |
22 | * ''Film/HigherLearning'' (1995) as Student |
23 | * ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' (1995) as Tracy Mills |
24 | * ''Film/HardEight'' (1996) as Clementine |
25 | * ''Film/{{Emma}}'' (1996) as Emma Woodhouse |
26 | * ''Film/SlidingDoors'' (1998) as Helen Quilley |
27 | * ''Film/GreatExpectations'' (1998) as Estella Havisham |
28 | * ''[[Film/Hush1998 Hush]]'' (1998) as Helen Baring |
29 | * ''Film/APerfectMurder'' (1998) as Emily Bradford Taylor |
30 | * ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' (1998) as Viola De Lesseps |
31 | * ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' (1999) as Marge Sherwood |
32 | * ''Film/{{Duets}}'' (2000) as Liv Dean |
33 | * ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'' (2001) as Margot Tenenbaum |
34 | * ''Film/ShallowHal'' (2001) as Rosemary Shanahan |
35 | * ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers in Goldmember]]'' (2002) as Dixie Normous |
36 | * ''Film/ViewFromTheTop'' (2003) as Donna Jensen |
37 | * ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004) as Polly Perkins |
38 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' as Virginia "Pepper" Potts |
39 | ** ''Film/IronMan1'' (2008) |
40 | ** ''Film/IronMan2'' (2010) |
41 | ** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' (2012) |
42 | ** ''Film/IronMan3'' (2013) |
43 | ** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' (2017) |
44 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' (2018) |
45 | ** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019) |
46 | * ''Film/CountryStrong'' (2011) as Kelly Canter |
47 | * ''Film/{{Contagion|2011}}'' (2011) as Beth Emhoff |
48 | * ''Film/{{Virunga}}'' (2014) as Herself |
49 | * ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'' (2015) as Johanna Mortdecai |
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51 | !!!Television |
52 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (1999-2019) as Herself/Host/Various |
53 | * ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' (2000) as Herself (Voice only) |
54 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (2010-2011, 2014) as Holly Holliday |
55 | * ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'' (2011) as Herself |
56 | * ''Series/TheNewNormal'' (2012) as Abby |
57 | * ''Series/ThePolitician'' (2019) as Georgina Hobart |
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60 | !!Tropes associated with her works include: |
61 | * BeautyInversion: Famously wore a fat suit for ''Film/ShallowHal'', and was notably drab in [[TheCameo her uncredited cameo]] in the pilot for ''Series/TheNewNormal'' ("Hi, I'm Abby - a lot of people say I look like Gwyneth Paltrow..."). |
62 | * TheCastShowoff: She was able to show her singing skills in ''Film/{{Duets}}'', ''View from the Top'' (as part of a CrowdSong), ''Film/CountryStrong'' and ''Series/{{Glee}}''. [[invoked]] |
63 | * DawsonCasting: In ''{{Film/Hook}}'' she was eighteen playing a preteen Wendy in flashback. Of course she continued to play Wendy in flashbacks to when she's a young woman too. [[invoked]] |
64 | * EnforcedMethodActing: For ''Film/ShallowHal'' she wore the fatsuit to a bar and discovered that people refused to make eye contact with her, and treated her rudely. [[invoked]] |
65 | * FakeBrit: Many of her early roles were British characters. Her opening monologue in an episode of ''Saturday Night Live'' focused on her speaking in a British accent, causing her then-boyfriend Creator/BenAffleck to step out and remind her that she's not actually British. [[invoked]] |
66 | * MsFanservice: Indulges in being this often in her films. (Out of her, Creator/KimKardashian and Creator/KateUpton, ''Paltrow'' was the only one who did her ice bucket challenge wearing a bikini.) |
67 | * PrettyInMink: When she plays a rich woman, sometimes she'll wear fur. |
68 | ** Wore a leopard hat and coat in ''The Talented Mr. Ripley''. |
69 | ** Wore a mink coat in ''The Royal Tenenbaums''. |
70 | ** Wore a white rabbit jacket for the cover of the Oct 2002 UK ''Magazine/{{Vogue}}''. |
71 | * RealLifeRelative: The director of ''Film/{{Duets}}'' was her father. This film became their only on-screen collaboration. [[invoked]] |
72 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Pepper's absence outside of the ''Film/IronMan'' films was due to Gwyneth only signing a three-picture deal, apparently extended by ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', and not wanting Pepper to appear only as a love interest in the ensemble films. |
73 | * SnakeOilSalesman: Her controversial lifestyle brand Goop and its adjacent documentary series ''The Goop Lab'' frequently face allegations of promoting pseudomedicine, which lead to her being parodied anywhere from ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' to ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. |
74 | * StarMakingRole: She received critical acclaim in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' and ''Film/{{Emma}}'', but ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' solidified her A-List status. [[invoked]] |
75 | * StatuesqueStunner: She stands at 5'9", meaning that in ''Film/IronMan'' (where she played the GirlFriday and once served as that page's image), Creator/RobertDowneyJr needed a ScullyBox to avoid being towered over. |
76 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]] |
77 | ** She was offered the role of Emma Peel in ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'' in 1998. She turned it down, and it became a StarDerailingRole for Uma Thurman (until ''Film/KillBill''). Ironically, she later appeared in another film titled ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. |
78 | ** She was to play Ava Gardner in ''Film/TheAviator''. She dropped out at the last minute, and it went to Creator/KateBeckinsale. |
79 | ** She was in negotiations to narrate ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' special ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatDiscovery'', which would have made her the first (and only) female narrator for the show. However the role went to Pierce Brosnan instead. |
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