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Gwyneth Paltrow (born September 28, 1972 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaGwyneth Paltrow is an American Oscar-winning actress.

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Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California to the late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director) and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress of English descent). Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a selective private girls' school in New York City, and briefly studied Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother named Jake and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.

In May 2005 she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the untimely death of her father Bruce Paltrow.

She is a vegetarian and a good friend of both Madonna and Christina Applegate, but she earned the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance as Stone in a

She had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck.

On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay, in secret. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004. She explained the unlikely name on , saying, "It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me - you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical - and I just thought it sounded so lovely and…clean! And I just thought, 'Perfect!'"

In December 2005, her mother told the television program that Paltrow is pregnant with a second child, due in spring 2006. Recent pictures of Paltrow have confirmed it and in January 2006 she said, "Since my daughter came along, I've not worked much through choice. And with another baby on its way, I don't think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so either."

(1996) received its share of praise. She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress two years later for her performance in (1998), in which Affleck appeared. She has since had a steady film career, with a few notable film roles, including on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided her career into those movies she did for love, and those "shite" films she did for money.

In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume.