Add it to your IMDb page. Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? How much of Uma Thurman's work have you seen? Favorite Chapter from Kill Bill See more polls ». Nominated for 1 Oscar. See more awards ». Known For. Kill Bill: Vol. Pulp Fiction Mia Wallace. Pamela Isley. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actress 68 credits.
Arianna Huffington. Tau Ceti Four pre-production. Katherine Newman. Nancy Lefevre. Show all 10 episodes. Lenny Cohen. Off You Go. Lenny Cohen uncredited. Show all 6 episodes. Anouk credit only. Show all 8 episodes. Gwen Ling voice. Short Wendy. I Mrs. II Mrs. Rebecca Duvall. Emma Peel. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, which she discussed in an interview with Talk magazine in She attended Amherst Public Schools. In the eighth grade she discovered her love for acting.
Talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible and offered her the chance to act professionally. Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, a preparatory school in Massachusetts, before dropping out to pursue a career in acting.
Movies 19 08 Movies 17 10 Movies 07 09 Named for a Hindu deity, Thurman made her film debut in Kiss Daddy Goodnight , a low-budget thriller. Wearing only hair extensions in her brief performance as the Roman goddess of love, the alluring young actress went on to take a number of sexually charged roles over the next few years.
At age 18, she bared all in Dangerous Liasons , a big-budget period piece starring John Malkovich and Glenn Close, and in she starred in Henry and June, the first film to be released with an NC rating. After appearing in a number of marginally successful Hollywood movies, Thurman stepped off the beaten track to appear in Pulp Fiction , the second movie by acclaimed independent director Quentin Tarantino. For her nuanced performance as a glamorous underworld moll, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
Thurman capitalized on the popular success of Pulp Fiction by appearing in a series of big-budget productions, including Gattaca , Batman and Robin , Les Miserables and The Avengers In and '04, Thurman starred in Tarantino's two-volume epic Kill Bill as a vengeful sword slashing assassin.
The actress also starred with Ben Affleck in the sci-fi thriller Paycheck. But her humor missed its mark with My Super Ex-Girlfriend , which proved to be a commercial and critical disappointment. It featured Thurman as a radio talk show host who convinces a woman to break up with her boyfriend.
She also had a recurring television role around this time, on the musical drama Smash, and later appeared in the culinary-themed drama Burnt , with Bradley Cooper.
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