Uma Thurman

Born April 29 1970, Uma Thurman was raised in the offbeat, bohemian intellectual parent households. Her Swedish-born mother, Nena, is a psychotherapist who was briefly married to psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, as unusual, people can get married before one of his students winning, Robert AF Thurman. Uma is the father of the distinction as the first American to be in the forefront of a Tibetan Buddhist monk (He Long ago abandoned his monastic life, and is currently director of religion at Columbia University). Immersed in the Buddhist faith, and called to be free thinkers, mind, and his three brothers, Dechen, Ganden and Mipam (all four children were named in honor of a Hindu god, Uma "translates by author blessings "), has developed a multicultural perspective, to say the least. The family has lived for long periods of time in India (while children are in primary school), Amherst, Massachusetts, and Woodstock, New York. Even in the United States, households felt Thurman international, as his father had with the monks in the world, and entertain his personal friend, with the Dalai Lama during his visit to America. 

Uma in non-traditional education is not exactly the installation with his colleagues, quite simply, he describes himself as a gangly and awkward child, who was mercilessly teased his own name (he had taken the habit of regularly changing a phenomenon more common as the names of Kelly and Linda, in an attempt to take), and the fact that the horrible and strange. Like most teenagers have a phase of rebellion, Uma, but his family, the country would be no influence, she rebelled after the entry into all-American Support Group of classes. "My parents were anti-American. They were so different, I thought I had to work in the direction of assimilation. "Not a happy child in particular (" I am very angry "), Uma has become more and more to act after receiving his first applause, as the ghost of the school play. 

At fifteen, she noticed the two talent scouts in New York in the production of "pot", and offered him a chance to listen in New York. As yet completely bored at school, she took the opportunity presented to her and left the school moved to New York to become an actress. "Uma has always seemed to know she wants to do from the day of his birth, virtually," said Nena's mother. "His sense of destiny is very important. She took courses and in many plays. I tried to put it back as I could, but when she began to show signs of concern for the family, I really did 't think I could say no "because I did the same thing myself." 

Speaking in Manhattan, in Hell's Kitchen Mind supports himself washing dishes and modeling, but her mother did when she was fresh out of the boat from Sweden. "I found it very uninteresting way to spend time," she says. "Modeling the essential" buy more things! You do not want other things? This allows you to search for ten years and men like you! "Fortunately, it does not work over a long period: At sixteen, she landed her first assignment as driving a vamp who seduces the young men to deny low-budget thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987).