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Since Gwyneth Paltrow's remarkable performance in the critically acclaimed Flesh and Bone opposite Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, Hollywood has taken a keen interest in the future of this talented actress. Her role as Viola de Lessups opposite Joseph Fiennes in John Madden's Shakespeare in Love garnered her a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was most recently seen in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, an adventure film, co-starring Jude Law and Angelina Jolie. Paltrow was also recently seen starring opposite Daniel Craig in Sylvia. The film tells the story of the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Paltrow received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her work on the play Proof in London. She is currently in production on the Truman Capote bio pic Every Word is True potraying singer Peggy Lee and on the comedy Running With Scissors co-starring Annette Benning.

Paltrow's film credits include Neil LaBute's Possession, a romance also starring Aaron Eckhart, a cameo appearance in Austin Powers 3 and the critically acclaimed Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums in which she starred opposite Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston and Ben Stiller. She also starred in the Peter and Bobby Farrelly-directed Shallow Hal co-starring Jack Black and Jason Alexander. Additional credits include roles in Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming's The Anniversary Party opposite Cumming, Leigh, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates and Parker Posey, as well as Duets, a film directed by her father Bruce Paltrow, and in Miramax Films' Bounce opposite Ben Affleck.

Paltrow has appeared in director Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley opposite Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Cate Blanchett and in the hit film A Perfect Murder opposite Michael Douglas and Viggo Mortensen, as well as in the critically acclaimed and international box office hit film from Miramax Films, Sliding Doors. Other film credits include Miramax Films' Emma directed by Doug McGrath, Great Expectations opposite Ethan Hawke, The Pallbearer opposite David Schwimmer, Seven, A View From The Top, Moonlight and Valentino, Jefferson in Paris, Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle, Malice, Hook, and Shout.

She has also received rave reviews in a sell-out run at Williamstown, Massachusetts Theater Festival's production of ‘As You Like It' in the role of Rosalind. Born in Los Angeles where she spent the first eleven years of her life, Paltrow stems from a very close-knit family deeply entrenched in the entertainment industry. Her father, Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002, was a highly successful producer (‘St. Elsewhere', ‘The White Shadow') and her mother is the award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Paltrow and her younger brother Jake spent their early childhood in Los Angeles where she attended St. Augustine by the Sea (now known as Crossroads). At the age of eleven, her family moved to New York and she enrolled in the Spence School from where she would later graduate. Paltrow enrolled in the University of California at Santa Barbara with the intention of majoring in Art History. She quickly learned that college life was not something she felt committed to and withdrew from school despite her father's strong recommendation to remain. It wasn't until he caught her moving performance in the Williamstown Theater production of Picnic starring opposite her mother and Tony Goldwyn did he lend his support in her pursuit of an acting career.

Paltrow currently resides in New York City and London.

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