She received an Academy Award nomination for the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994) and she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Hysterical Blindness (2002). Her father gave his children a Buddhist upbringing, and she is named after an Dbuma Chenpo (in Tibetan, the “db” is silent; from Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning “Great Middle Way”). When she was 10 years old, a friend’s mother suggested a nose job. Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts, before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. Thurman began her career as a fashion model at age 15, and signed with the agency Click Models. The New York Times wrote, “Thurman, as the Brooklyn-accented June, takes a larger-than-life character and makes her even bigger, though the performance is often as curious as it is commanding”. She became one of Tarantino’s favorite actresses to cast; he told Time magazine in 2003 that she was “up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory.” 1996 would see Thurman in two moderately successful films, the first of which was Beautiful Girls, where she played the female lead and love interest of Timothy Hutton and was supported with a high-profile cast (for that time) of Mira Sorvino, Martha Plimpton, and Natalie Portman. in the film, she played a New Jersey woman in the 1980s searching for romance.

Uma Thurman’s Marilyn Mascarade! Is Uma Thurman AKA Rebecca Duvall the right Marilyn??Eh…no. We don’t think so. But we’re not entirely sold on Katherine McPhee either. Megan Hilty was perfect! We don’t understand why they keep dodging the issue…Oh right, ’cause then the show would only be 4 episodes long!Get a first look at Uma Thurman’s [...] [link]

Thurman’s mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, was a model born in Mexico City in 1941. He was professor of religion at Amherst College from 1973 to 1988, when he accepted a position at Columbia University, where he was a professor of Tibetan Buddhism. Robert Thurman was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. She made her movie debut in 1988, appearing in four films that year. With a budget of $46 million and box office receipts of only $8 million, the film was a commercial failure. She’s more than a little haunted.” in 1990, Thurman co-starred with Fred Ward in the sexually provocative drama Henry & June, the first film to receive an NC-17 rating. It was a critical and financial disappointment; Thurman was nominated for a Worst Actress Razzie. She also starred opposite Robert De Niro in the drama Mad Dog and Glory, another box office disappointment.

Uma Thurman’s Brother Teaching Yoga in Europe Uma Thurman’s younger brother has become a top yoga guru and he’s taking his talents to Europe this summer (11). Dechen Thurman has turned his b… [link]