Uma Karuna Thurman born April 29, is an American actress. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films.
Thurman made her Broadway debut in The Parisian Woman — Her father, Robert Thurman , is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author, [ 12 ] who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years. Thurman received a Buddhist upbringing, and spent altogether around two years in Almora , Uttarakhand , India.
She has three brothers, Ganden b. She is described, in a biography, as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her appearance and unusual name sometimes using the name "Uma Karen" instead of her birth name.
At age 14, she attended Northfield Mount Hermon School , a preparatory school in Massachusetts, where talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible [ 20 ] and offered her the chance to act professionally; she then dropped out to pursue an acting career. Thurman began her career as a fashion model at age 15, [ 22 ] and signed with the agency Click Models.
Her early modeling credits included Glamour and the December and May covers of British Vogue. In the comedy Johnny Be Good , she played the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , she made a brief appearance as the goddess Venus ; during her entrance she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli 's The Birth of Venus.
