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Born in Boston,
Massachusetts, she was given a Buddhist upbringing.
Her Swedish mother, Nena, was uma karuna thurmanbriefly
married to Timothy Leary (to whom she was introduced
by Salvador Dalí) before marrying Uma's
father, Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan
Buddhist studies at Columbia University. "Uma"
is the name of a Hindu goddess of light and beauty.
She has three brothers, named Ganden, Dechen and
Mipam. For long time, she was a spokesmodel for
cosmetics company Lancome which had shades of
lipstick named after her. As of 2005, she is a
spokesmodel for luxurious French fashion house
Louis Vuitton. In Portuguese, her name means "one"
and in Polynesian, it means "kiss".
Ethan Hawke's book For Karuna was dedicated to
her.
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Uma Thurman left her high
school, Northfield Mount Hermon, at the age of
15 to pursue an acting career in New York City.
In 1990 she married actor Gary Oldman but divorced
him two years later. On May 1, 1998, she married
actor Ethan Hawke, whom she had met at the set
of Gattaca, and gave birth to a daughter Maya
Ray and later on, son Roan.
Thurman became a pop culture legend when, at an Oscar Awards
ceremony, comedian David Letterman lampooned her
name by pretending to introduce her to talk show
host Oprah Winfrey (both were in the audience).
As a result, "Uma...Oprah. Oprah...Uma."
became a heavily repeated catch phrase over the
next year, inciting various spinoffs.
In 2003, Thurman and Hawke split, and in 2004, the couple filed for divorce.
She now resides in Hyde Park, New York.
A Russian rock band, Ne Nashego Mira, renamed itself UmaThurman (?????????),
hoping to capitalize on her popularity. |
