biography
pronunciation:
[paltroh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1972– )
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Brought up in a show business family, she abandoned her art history studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to pursue an acting career. Her films include Hook (1991), Malice (1993), and Seven (1995). It was her 1996 performance in the title role of Emma Woodhouse, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, that led to her being offered the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1998, Oscar). In 1997 she broke off her much publicized engagement to the actor Brad Pitt and went on to film A Perfect Murder (1998), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). She made her London West End stage debut in Proof in 2002. |
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