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Uma Thurman
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Uma or Parvati (noun)

Hindu deities: Sakti, Uma or Parvati, Kali or Durga

UMA

UMA (U`M-A') noun
Acronym for Upper Memory Area. The portion of DOS memory between the first 640K and 1 megabyte. Compare high memory area.

Uma Thurman

 Real name
      Uma Karuna Thurman
      Date of birth
      29 April 1970,
      Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Actress filmography

   _Chelsea Walls_ (vhs/ntsc)(2001) .... Grace
   Avengers, The (1998) .... Emma Peel
   Misérables, Les (1998) .... Fantine
   Woody Allen Fall Project 1998 (1998)
   Batman & Robin (1997) .... Poison Ivy/Dr. Pamela Isley
   You're Still Not Fooling Anybody (1997) (archive footage) .... Mia
_Gattaca_ (vhs/ntsc)(1997) .... Irene Cassini
     ... aka _Eighth Day, The_ (1996/II) (USA: working title)

   _Truth About Cats & Dogs, The_ (1996) .... Noelle Slusarsky
   Beautiful Girls (1996) .... Andera
   _Duke of Groove_ (1995) .... Maya
  Month by the Lake, A (1995) .... Miss Beaumont
_Pulp Fiction_ (vhs/ntsc)(1994) .... Mia
  Mad Dog and Glory (1993) .... Glory
  _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_ (vhs/ntsc) (1993).... Sissy Hankshaw
  Final Analysis (1992) .... Diana Baylor
  _Jennifer Eight_ (vhs/ntsc) (1992) .... Helena Robertson
  Robin Hood (1991/I) (TV) .... Maid Marian
  _Henry & June_ (vhs/ntsc)(1990) .... June Miller
  Where the Heart Is (1990) .... Daphne
  Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1989) .... Venus/Rose
     ... aka Abenteuer des Baron von Münchhausen, Die (1989) (West Germany)
  _Dangerous Liaisons_ (vhs/ntsc)(1988) .... Cecile De Volanges
  Johnny Be Good (1988) .... Georgia Elkans
  Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987) .... Laura
     ... aka By Any Other Name (1987) (USA: original script title)
 
 

Notable TV guest appearances

   1."Clive James Show, The" (1998) playing "Herself"(episode # 1.2) 3/15/1998

• Was named after the Hindu bodhisattva of compassion.
• Her name means both "Bestower of Blessings" and "The Bright One" in Hindi.
• Her father was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk.
• Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was given a Buddhist upbringing. Her Swedish mother Nena was introduced to her first husband, Timothy Leary, by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, whom she divorced after less than a year before marrying Uma's father Robert, 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 school 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. In 2003, Thurman and Hawke split, but claimed that as of then, there were no plans for a divorce.
• video interview on _The Tonight Show_ (1997) (vhs/ntsc)

Agnosticism:

"I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. My father, when very young, was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. He now teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University and is regarded as this country's foremost authority on Buddhism. When the Dalai Lama comes to America, it's my father who is his host. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them."

- Cosmopolitan, 1995

• track _Uma_ MP3 (192k) by Shalabai Effect off of _Trial Of St. Orange_ CD on Alien-8 (2000)
• 604 track _Disco_ by Miranda off of _Real  Rush_
• sample: "Disco!"  spoken by Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in the film _Pulp Fiction_  (1994) directed by Quentin Tarantino

 

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