Birthday: April 29, 1970
Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Birth Name: Uma Karuna Thurman
Aka: U

Biography: Uma Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 into a highly unorthodox and Eurocentric family - her mother is a European socialite and former model, her father one of the nation's foremost Buddhist scholars.   As a result, hers was a household in which the Dalai Lama was an occasional guest, she and her siblings all have names deriving from Buddhist mythology, and Middle American behavior was little understood, much less pursued.  

And so it was that the young Thurman confronted childhood with an odd name and eccentric homelife - and nature seemingly...