Uma Thurman

Real name: Thurman, Uma Karuna

Birthday: 29 April, 1970

Birth city: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Height: 6' (182 cm)

Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970), is an American film actress
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was given a Buddhist upbringing. Her Swedish mother Nena was introduced to her first husband, Timothy Leary, by Salvador Dalí, whom she divorced after less than a year before marrying Uma's father Robert Thurman, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University. "Uma" is the name of a Hindu goddess of light and beauty.
Uma Thurman left her high school, Northfield Mount Hermon, at the age of 15 to pursue an acting career in New York City. In 1990 she married actor Gary Oldman, but divorced him two years later. In 1998 she married actor Ethan Hawke, whom she had met at the set of Gattaca, and gave birth to a daughter Maya Ray.
Thurman became a pop culture legend when, at an Oscar Awards ceremony, talk show host David Letterman lampooned her name by pretending to introduce her to talk show host Oprah Winfrey (both were in the audience.) As a result, "Uma...Oprah. Oprah...Uma." became a heavily repeated catch phrase over the next year, inciting various spinoffs.
In 2003, Thurman and Hawke split, and in 2004, the couple filed for divorce.
A Russian rock band, Ne Nashego Mira, renamed itself UmaThurman, hoping to capitalize on this popularity. (source: wikipedia.com)[Update biography]