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Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970), is an American film actress.
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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.
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