Uma Karuna Thurman born April 29, 1970is an American actress. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction or which she received an Oscar nominationand Kill Bill. In 2002 she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Hysterical Blindness.
Contents
* 1 Personal life
o 1.1 Family background
o 1.2 Early life
o 1.3 Relationships
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Early work 1987–1989
o 2.2 Career prominence 1990–1993
o 2.3 1994–1998
o 2.4 Hiatus 1998–2002
o 2.5 2003–present
* 3 Activism and charity work
* 4 Filmography
* 5 Awards
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links
Personal life
Family background
Thurman's mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, was a model born in Mexico City in 1941. Thurman's maternal grandfather was Colonel Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, a German military officer who had become one of the senior Nazi spies in the America but who was also jailed by the Nazis for protecting Jewish friends Thurman's maternal grandmother was Swedish-born Birgit Holmquist, from Trelleborg, who in 1930 modelled for a nude statue that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk, Sweden.Thurman's mother was introduced to LSD guru Timothy Leary by Salvador Dalí and became Leary's third wife in 1964. She wed Thurman's father, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman b. August 3, 1941, in 1967; he was born in New York City, to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., an Associated Press editor and United Nations translator.He was professor of religion at Amherst College from 1973 to 1988, when he accepted a position at Columbia University, where he was a professor of Tibetan Buddhism. Robert Thurman was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Bddhi
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