Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Uma Thurman is a versatile and accomplished stage and film actress. She first came to international attention in 1988 playing the goddess Venus in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. That same year she starred alongside John Malkovich in Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons, playing a virginal 18th Century convent girl, a role for which she received wide critical acclaim.
Thurman went on to play a number of varied and eclectic roles, including a neurotic bisexual in Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June; a spoiled child in John Boorman’s comedy Where The Heart Is; a conniving therapy patient in Phil Joanou’s thriller Final Analysis; a blind woman in thriller Jennifer 8 and a hippie hitchhiker in Gus Van Sant’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
In 1996 Thurman received an Academy Award nomination for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and in 2003-4 Thurman reunited with the director to star as the vengeance seeking ‘Bride’ in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2, for both of which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Thurman later starred in Be Cool, opposite John Travolta; Prime opposite Meryl Streep; Mel Brooks’ The Producers; My Super Ex-Girlfriend with Luke Wilson; and Motherhood.
Thurman’s other feature films include: Mad Dog and Glor, alongside Robert De Niro; A Month by The Lake with Vanessa Redgrave; Ted Demme’s Beautiful Girls; The Truth About Cats and Dogs; Batman & Robin; Gattaca opposite Ethan Hawke; Les Miserables; The Avengers; Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown; Vatel opposite Tim Roth; Merchant Ivory’s The Golden Bowl; John Woo’s Paycheck and Richard Linklater’s Tape, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Thurman also starred in and produced the HBO film Hysterical Blindness (2003), for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress and a SAG nomination.
Thurman was seen in Chris Columbus’s Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief and coming up she has a number of films including Untitled Comedy, Ceremony, Girl Soldier, The Swarm and Kill Bill: Volume 3.
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Actress
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2022 |
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber |
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Same Last Name (E07) |
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Delete Uber (E06) |
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The Charm Offensive (E05) |
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more episodes (2) | ||
Suspicion |
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Unmasked (E08) |
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Questions of Trust (E07) |
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Be the Gray Man (E06) |
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more episodes (5) | ||
2019 |
Chambers |
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The Crystal Organ (E10) |
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In the Gloaming (E09) |
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Heroic Dose (E08) |
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more episodes (7) | ||
2018 |
Imposters |
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Maid Marian on Her Tip-Toed Feet (S02E07) |
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That's Enough. Off You Go. (S02E06) |
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2017 |
Imposters |
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Is a Shark Good or Bad? (S01E05) |
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Cohen, Lenny Cohen. (S01E04) |
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We Wanted Every Lie (S01E03) |
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2015 |
The Slap |
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Ritchie (E08) |
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Rosie (E07) |
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Aisha (E06) |
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2014 |
American Dad! |
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Now and Gwen (S12E05) |
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2012 |
Smash |
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Previews (S01E14) |
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Tech (S01E13) |
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Publicity (S01E12) |
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1993 |
Great Books |
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1993 |
K.D. Lang: Just Keep Me Moving |
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2023 |
The Calm |
2014 |
Jump! |
The Mundane Goddess |
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2007 |
Mission Zero |
1997 |
You're Still Not Fooling Anybody - a.f. |
1996 |
Duke of Groove (TV movie) |
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2026 |
Tau Ceti Four |
2023 |
The Kill Room |
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