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Uma Thurman

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Movies listed: 39

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Awards

MTV Movie Award for Best Fight2005 · MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actress2004 · 1st International Cinephile Society Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance2004 · MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight2004 · MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film2003 · 60th Golden Globe Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence1995 · MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence · Pulp Fiction

Biography

Uma Thurman is an American actress whose career has moved between fashion, independent drama, studio genre films, television, and stage work. Born Uma Karuna Thurman in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1970, she grew up in a family closely connected to scholarship, Buddhism, and the arts: her father, Robert Thurman, became a prominent scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and her mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, had worked as a model. Thurman entered public life as a teenage model, including early appearances connected with British Vogue, before moving decisively into screen acting in the late 1980s.

Her first major period of recognition came quickly. In 1988 she appeared in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and in Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons, the latter giving her a visible role opposite Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1990 she played June Miller in Philip Kaufman's Henry & June, a performance that helped establish her as an actor willing to take on demanding literary and adult drama. During the early 1990s she continued to build a varied résumé with films such as Final Analysis, Jennifer 8, Mad Dog and Glory, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and Beautiful Girls.

Thurman's defining international breakthrough came with Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in 1994. As Mia Wallace, she became central to one of the decade's landmark films, balancing cool detachment, comedy, danger, and vulnerability in a role that became one of modern American cinema's most recognizable performances. The part earned her major awards attention, including an Academy Award nomination for supporting actress, and began the creative association with Tarantino that would shape another major phase of her career.

Filmography

Countdown: Rousey vs. Carano

as Narrator (voice) · 2026 · Not rated yet

Bear Grylls is Running Wild

Actor · 2026 · Not rated yet

Pretty Lethal

as Devora Kasimer · 2026 · Not rated yet

The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge

as The Bride (voice) · 2025 · Not rated yet

Dexter: Resurrection

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Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano

as Narrator (voice) · 2025 · Not rated yet

The Old Guard 2

as Discord · 2025 · Not rated yet

The King of Kings

as Catherine Dickens (voice) · 2025 · Not rated yet

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In the late 1990s Thurman remained a prominent Hollywood actor while avoiding a single narrow screen identity. She appeared in romantic comedy with The Truth About Cats & Dogs, science fiction with Gattaca, comic-book spectacle with Batman & Robin, literary adaptation with Les Misérables, and Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown. Her presence in Gattaca, opposite Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, reflected one of her recurring strengths: she could bring an elegant, emotionally guarded quality to stylized material without making it feel remote.

Her second Tarantino landmark came with Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2. As Beatrix Kiddo, also known as the Bride, Thurman carried an action epic built from martial-arts cinema, revenge melodrama, westerns, and pop-art violence. The role required physical intensity as well as a sustained emotional through-line, and it became the other signature performance of her film career. The films brought her renewed Golden Globe and BAFTA attention and confirmed her as one of the few American actors strongly identified with both auteur cinema and mainstream action iconography.

Thurman's work after Kill Bill continued across film, television, and theatre. She appeared in Paycheck, The Producers, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, The House That Jack Built, Hollywood Stargirl, and The Old Guard 2. On television she won a Golden Globe for the HBO film Hysterical Blindness, earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for Smash, and appeared in series including The Slap, Imposters, Chambers, Super Pumped, and Dexter: Resurrection. She also made her Broadway debut in The Parisian Woman during the 2017-2018 season.

Across her career, Thurman has been notable less for a single genre than for the contrast between poise and volatility in her screen persona. She has played muses, assassins, romantic leads, villains, literary figures, and contemporary professionals, often bringing a composed surface that can suddenly give way to humor, anger, danger, or hurt. Her most famous roles in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill remain central to her reputation, but her broader body of work shows an actor who repeatedly moved between independent credibility, studio visibility, and theatrical risk.

References:

[1] Wikipedia, “Uma Thurman” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman

[2] The Movie Database, “Uma Thurman” — https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139-uma-thurman

[3] Golden Globes, “Uma Thurman” — https://goldenglobes.com/person/uma-thurman/

[4] Wikipedia, “Pulp Fiction” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction

[5] Wikipedia, “Kill Bill: Volume 1” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_1

[6] Wikipedia, “Kill Bill: Volume 2” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_2

[7] Wikipedia, “Dangerous Liaisons” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Liaisons

[8] Wikipedia, “Gattaca” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

[9] Wikipedia, “Hysterical Blindness” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_Blindness_(film)

[10] Wikipedia, “The Parisian Woman” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parisian_Woman