Uma Thurman

Biography

Named after a goddess in Hindu mythology, Uma hit New York at age 16 and was soon a successful Click model, posing for glamour magazines. You can see her naked pictures at this free celeb site.

She segued to acting in 1987 with the independent feature "Kiss Daddy Good Night", as a young seductress who entices men only to rob them. After marking time in "Johnny Be Good" (1988), Thurman received wide attention as the perfectly buxom, virginal victim of John Malkovich's seduction in Stephen Frears' "Dangerous Liaisons" (also 1988). She furthered her visibility as the Goddess of Love in Terry Gilliam's madcap opus "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1989).

Thurman's powerful performance as the controlling wife of Henry Miller in Philip Kaufman's "Henry and June" (1990) revealed her to be an actress with considerable depth and ability. She turned in another strong performance as a blind woman targeted by a serial killer in Bruce Robinson's dark "Jennifer 8" (1992). She next appeared nude in John McNaughton's "Mad Dog and Glory" (1993) as an indentured servant to cop Robert De Niro and gangster Bill Murray in this unusual gangster romance.

For Uma, 1994 proved to be a profoundly mixed year, with appearances in one of the year's most praised films as well as in one of its most lambasted. The latter was director Gus Van Sant's lumbering "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", a long-awaited but unsatisfying adaptation of the popular Tom Robbins novel.

She fared better as one of the few females in the powerhouse ensemble of Quentin Tarrantino's "Pulp Fiction". Playing the coked up wife of a formidable gangster who inadvertently snorts an alarming amount of heroin, Thurman took part in one of the more distressing scenes in recent movie memory. She also got to dance with John Travolta and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. It may be the part to free her from her designation as "the new Dietrich", which is both harmful to her career and highly inaccurate. (Thurman, however, had expected to portray the screen legend in a biopic to be directed by Louis Malle; Malle's death put the project on hold.)

While Thurman garnered praise for her turn as a young coquette flirting with Edward Fox in John Irving's "A Month by the Lake" (1995), the film stumbled at the box office. She fared slightly better in Ted Demme's ensemble drama "Beautiful Girls" (1996), as an outsider visiting a small town.

Sexy Uma Thurman next played against type as a less than intellectual blonde helping friend Janeane Garofalo win a handsome beau in the comedy "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" (1996). As the villainess Poison Ivy opposite George Clooney's Dark Knight in "Batman and Robin" (1997), Thurman nearly committed petty larceny by stealing this overblown and confusing flick.

She returned more to form in "Gattaca" (also 1997), as a passive worker in a futuristic society who unwittingly falls for a man who is not what he seems (played by her future husband Ethan Hawke).

Pics

Nude movie clip:
Mad Dog & Glory (1993)