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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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