Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Date of Birth: 29 Apr 1970

Country: USA

Biography: Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress & model.Uma satisfyingly displayed strong performances in "Henry & June"(1990), "Jennifer 8"(1992)& "Mad Dog and Glory"(1993) but she still did not get he recognition she longed for. It was not until this striking blonde starred in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction(1994), she received decent accolades of her acting quality, gloriously leading her to be the Best Supporting Actress nominee at Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards & SAG Awards.

Total Credits at Criticker: 64 (Actor), 3 (Writer)

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    The Avengers
    British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August. (imdb)
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    Batman & Robin
    Batman, Robin and new crime fighting comrade Batgirl face Gotham City's deadliest threat yet when cold-hearted Mr. Freeze and venomous Poison Ivy team for some lethal mischief. (Warner Bros.)
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    Be Cool
    John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in Be Cool, a sequel to the comedy smash Get Shorty. This time, Chili becomes a different kind of "hit" man -- he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business. (MGM)
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    Beautiful Girls
    An all-star cast sparks this comedy about a group of old friends whose 10-year high school reunion creates some unexpected surprises. (Miramax)
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    Chelsea Walls
    The residents of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, young and full of expectations, mingle with the old hotel ghosts and guests, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams. The Chelsea Hotel never really leaves the people who live there, nor do they ever really leave it. (Lions Gate Films)
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    Dangerous Liaisons
    Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her wedding day. Meanwhile Valmont has a conquest of his own in mind, Madame de Tourvel, a beautiful, married, and God fearing woman... (imdb)
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    Gattaca
    An engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection.  (Sony)
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    The Golden Bowl
    An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Thurman and Northam), are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit. (Lions Gate Films)
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    Kill Bill: Volume 1
    The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
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    Kill Bill: Volume 2
    The murderous Bride continues her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and his two remaining associates; his younger brother Budd, and Bill's latest flame Elle.
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    Paycheck
    What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased. (imdb)
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    Pulp Fiction
    Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these and other characters prove to be woven together in ways none of them could ever fully understand.
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    Sweet and Lowdown
    Woody Allen's latest film is the fanciful biography of a legendary jazz guitarist, Emmet Ray, who clashed with lovers, gangsters, musicians and success itself in the 1930's Jazz scene. Sean Penn stars as the fictional musical genius who during the Swing Era was on his way up but could never settle down. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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    Tape
    Richard Linklater directs this three-character ensemble piece set within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan. After 10 years apart, three disparate people come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. (Lions Gate Films)
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    Vatel
    In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel... (imdb)
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    Prime
    A witty romantic comedy about the trials and tribulations of two mismatched lovers: a 37-year-old photography producer (Thurman) reeling from a recent divorce and a 23-year-old painter (Greenberg) recently out of college. (Universal Pictures)
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    The Producers
    New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken... (imdb)
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    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. (imdb)
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    Les Misérables
    Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives... (imdb)
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    The Truth About Cats & Dogs
    A successful veternarian & radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her. (imdb)
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    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. (imdb)
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    Henry & June
    In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others (imdb)
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    Johnny Be Good
    It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect... (imdb)
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    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age... (imdb)
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    Mad Dog and Glory
    After his life is saved by a lonely cop, a mobster who moonlights as a standup comic, provides the cop with a friend: a beautiful woman. (imdb)
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    Kiss Daddy Goodnight
    At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is killed. (imdb)
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    My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    In New York, when the shy and lonely project manager of a design firm Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson in the subway, he invites her to date and have dinner with him. Jenny immediately falls in love for him, they have sex and she discloses her true identity to him, telling that she is the powerful superhero G-Girl. After meeting his co-worker and friend Hannah Lewis, the needy Jenny becomes jealous, controlling and manipulative... (imdb)
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    Robin Hood
    Yet another version of the classic epic, with enough variation to make it interesting. The story is the same, but some of the characters are quite different from the usual, in particular Uma Thurman's very special maid Marian. The photography is also great, giving the story a somewhat darker tone. (imdb)
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    Final Analysis
    Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ? (imdb)
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    Jennifer 8
    A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it. (imdb)
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    Hysterical Blindness
    In this bittersweet slice of working class single New Jersey life, best friends Debby and Beth (both pushing thirty) go looking for love in the wrong place - namely their favorite bar, Oliver's... (imdb)
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    The Life Before Her Eyes
    A dramatic thriller about Diana, a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend... (imdb)
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    The Accidental Husband
    When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge. (imdb)
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    A Month by the Lake
    At a luxurious lakeside resort, an attractive red-headed guest has her eye on a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths -- including a fling with a passionate younger man -- to reel in her wealthy catch! (amazon.com)
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    All the Love You Cannes!
    A documentary about film-making with all-star cast interviews.
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    Where the Heart Is
    Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision, until a group of protesters object to the destruction of one lonely, ugly building, called the Dutch House. Typically, the media is sent to the scene of the protest, and McBain appears on TV in a bad way. (imdb)
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    My Zinc Bed
    My Zinc Bed (2008) - TV Movie
    A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict. (imdb)
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    Mission Zero
    Mission Zero (2007) - Short Film
    A sexy woman is chased around the city in her yellow Lamborghini. The killers are everywhere.
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    Motherhood
    In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
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    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    After he discovers that he's the son of the Greek god Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) strikes out on an action-packed adventure to rescue his mortal mother and negotiate a peace treaty between his father, Zeus (Sean Bean) and Hades (Steve Coogan). Directed by Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), this star-studded family tale also stars Pierce Brosnan, Rosario Dawson and Uma Thurman.
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    Ceremony
    A young guy crashes the wedding of the thirty-something woman he wants back.
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    You\
    Comparisons between the films of Quentin Tarantino and older works, claiming that he borrow things from them without proper recognition.
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    Bel Ami
    A chronicle of a young man's (Robert Pattinson) rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women. (imdb)
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    Love, Marilyn
    Love, Marilyn is an intimate excursus into the never-before-seen letters, diaries and notebooks of Marilyn Monroe. Appearing on screen to perform Marilyn's words are renowned contemporary actresses, including Maria Tomei, Uma Thurman, and Glenn Close. (tiff.net)
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    Playing for Keeps
    A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together. (imdb)
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    Nymphomaniac: Volume 1
    A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating. (imdb)
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    Nymphomaniac: Volume 2
    The second part of the two-part version of von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
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    The Slap
    The Slap (2015) - TV Series
    A once happy family suddenly begins to fall apart following a seemingly minor incident in which a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. (imdb)
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    Burnt
    Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. (imdb)
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    The Making of \
    Short documentary on the making of "Kill Bill: Volume 2" (2004).
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    The Con Is On
    In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot. (imdb)
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    The War with Grandpa
    Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back. (imdb)
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    The House That Jack Built
    The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer over the course of 12 years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer. (imdb)
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    Down a Dark Hall
    Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, confronts the institution's supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress. (imdb)
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    Chambers
    Chambers (2019) - TV Series
    A woman survives a heart transplant and begins to develop different personality traits.
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    Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
    Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein becomes a catalyst for the MeToo Movement. Contains testimonials from those who knew him well such as Hillary Clinton, Emma Thompson, Heather Kerr, Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Uma Thurman and more! (imdb)
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    A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
    When Gonzo accidentally diverts three letters to Santa, he talks Kermit and his friends into delivering them to the North Pole personally. (imdb)
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    Super Pumped
    Super Pumped (2022) - TV Series
    The roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley. (imdb)
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    Suspicion
    Suspicion (2022) - TV Series
    Five ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them - and are they telling the truth? (imdb)
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    Hollywood Stargirl
    The story follows Stargirl and her mother Ana, who is hired as the costume designer on a movie, as they relocate to Los Angeles, where Stargirl meets new friends and explores her creative side, as well as fame and success. (wikipedia.org)
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    Red, White & Royal Blue
    When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper. (imdb)
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    The Kill Room
    A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld. (imdb)
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    Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
    The Bride must kill her ex-boss and lover Bill who betrayed her at her wedding rehearsal, shot her in the head and took away her unborn daughter. But first, she must make the other four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad suffer. (imdb)
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    Oh Canada
    Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life. (imdb)
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