Uma Thurman Picture

Uma Thurman Bio:

What's Her Story:
A Boston born babe, Uma was given a Buddhist upbringing due to her 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. She made a big splash on the big screen with Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Gattaca (1997), but comics geeks love her for the portrayal of Poison Ivy in the franchise killer Batman & Robin (1997). 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, but claimed that as of then, there were no plans for a divorce.