Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
Biography
Early life
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California to the late Bruce Paltrow (descendant from the well-known Paltrowitch rabbinical family of Russia), a film director, and Blythe Danner (a well known character actress); Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother was raised in the Quaker religion. Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a selective private girls' school in New York City, and briefly studied Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother named Jake and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.
Paltrow is a descendant of the famous Rabbi David HaLevi Segal, of Cracow (1586-1667). He was known as “The Taz” after his great book Turei Zahav or "Pillars of Gold". The descendants of Rabbi Ha-Levi were the Russian rabbinical family Paltrowitch, whi...[read more about Gwyneth Paltrow's biography]
