Born on September 28, 1972, in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner and television producer Bruce Paltrow, Gwyneth Paltrow grew up no stranger to the world of Hollywood. After living in Los Angeles, Paltrow moved with her family to New York at age eleven. The precocious young blonde made her stage debut at just five years old in a theater in Massachusetts's Berkshire Mountains, where her mother performed in summer stock.
Paltrow begins dating Se7en costar Brad Pitt, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, catapulting Paltrow into the headlines. "Our first date was at an Italian restaurant in L.A., and no one gave us a glance," Paltrow tells You magazine. "Now it's a case of 'Who's that girl?'" In April, while in St. Barts, a paparazzo captures the couple sunbathing nude, which leads to an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit that Pitt wins.
Paltrow gave birth to a son, Moses, in the spring of 2006 and returned to star billing in 2008 with the heavily marketed comic book adaptation of "Iron Man," in which she sparkled as Pepper Potts, the woman behind Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who leads a double life as an ironclad crime fighter. Also that year, she launched a weekly online newsletter called GOOP, which focused on her upscale lifestyle and encouraged readers to "nourish the inner aspect," while they "Make, Go, Get, Do, Be and See.
