Biography:

Uma Thurman moved to New York City at age seventeen to began her career as a model. She transitioned into acting in 1988 with the independent feature "Kiss Daddy Good Night", as a teen who lures men only to rob them. She received great reviews as the innocent victim of John Malkovich's seduction in "Dangerous Liaisons" (1998), starring Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer, before her performance as the Goddess of Love in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1989), featuring Robin Williams.

Her role as June, the wife of Henry Miller in "Henry and June" (1990), showed her skill. She was then hired and cast as a blind woman under fire by a serial killer in "Jennifer 8" (1992), and played a maid to Robert De Niro and Bill Murray in the gangster romance "Mad Dog and Glory" (1993). Her next film was Gus Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" featuring Keanu Reeves (1994), a variation of the Tom Robbins book. 

But the role that made her famous was as a drug addicted gangster's wife in Quentin Tarantino's applauded "Pulp Fiction" (1994), where after a romantic affair, her character overdoses and has to have a needle stuck in her chest. For her role, she was awarded with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination against the all-star cast that included not only Travolta, but also Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken.

Next was Ted Demme's drama "Beautiful Girls" (1996), in the role of an outcast visiting a small town, allowing her to work with some of her idols such as Lauren Holly, Rosie O'Donnell and Natalie Portman. She next accepted the role of a dumb blonde, helping her friend win a man in the comedy "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" (1996). She wrapped her year as the evil 'Poison Ivy' to George Clooney's Dark Knight in "Batman & Robin" (1997). 

Her next role was as a submissive worker in an top-secret space project who is seduced by a co-worker in the thriller "Gattaca" (1997). She followed with a great performance as Fantine, in the 1998 remake of "Les Miserables", before joining with Ralph Fiennes as Emma Peel in the movie version of the 1960's television series "The Avengers" (1998), next to Sean Connery.

Not long after her high profile separation from Ethan Hawke, she returned to movies in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" opposite Daryl Hannah and Lucy Liu (2003) and again in "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" (2004), adding Samuel L. Jackson to the original cast. She played the Bride, a nameless woman left for dead who wakes up from a coma to inflict revenge on her enemy. She also appeared opposite Ben Affleck in  the thriller "Paycheck" (2003).

Her next role was as a record executive who falls for John Travolta's Chili Palmer in "Be Cool", with Vince Vaughn and Anna Nicole Smith (2005).

Next she worked with Meryl Streep in the romantic comedy "Prime" (2005), as a 37-year-old woman suffering from a divorce and working through relationship issues with her psychotherapist, energized by her affair with a much younger man who happens to be her therapist's son. 

She was next acst alongside Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane in "The Producers: The Movie Musical" (2005), as the teams secretary Ulla. She then joined Luke Wilson for "My Super Ex Girlfriend" (2006), in which Wilson learns his girlfriend is a super hero and breaks up with her when she becomes too controlling and phobic, forcing her to use her powers to take revenge by tormenting and embarrassing him. 

She then starred along side Evan Rachel Wood in the dramatic thriller "The Life Before Her Eyes" (2007), a story where a woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day life to fall apart. The actress then starred in the romantic comedy "The Accidental Husband" (2008), about when talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge. 

She was then cast in "My Zinc Bed" (2008), about a recovering alcoholic who becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict. Then it was back to comedy with the starring role in "Motherhood" (2009), with Minnie Driver, set in Manhattan, about a mother preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event. She wrapped her year with the family comedy "Eloise in Paris" (2009), based on the classic 1950's children's book by Kay Thompson, Eloise jets off to Paris for Fashion Week and, along with one of Europe's top designers, finds herself chasing after a stolen dress.