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9 unusual facts about Uma Thurman


Becky Duggan

In 2006, Duggan appeared in a Push Hockey magazine photoshoot dressed as Uma Thurman's character from Kill Bill.

Laura Day

In 2006, Day came out with Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want, which launched with a book party at the restaurant Bette co-hosted by actress Uma Thurman, Ryan Kavanaugh and agent Kevin Huvane, which Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher attended.

Max von Schlebrügge

His last name comes from his paternal grandmother from Germany, who is an older half sister of actress Uma Thurman´s mother Nena von Schlebrügge, making Uma his first cousin once removed.

Nora Fries

At one point in the movie, Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who is infatuated with Mr. Freeze and his powers, pulls the plug on Nora’s cryogenic tank in an attempt to kill her and have Freeze to herself.

Port Chester Public Schools

Port Chester High School was featured in the 2006 movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend featuring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson.

Smygehuk

The model for the statue was Birgit Holmquist, mother of the model Nena von Schlebrügge and grandmother of actress Uma Thurman.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

In the film Kill Bill Volume 2, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the character played by Uma Thurman is buried alive in a grave marked "Paula Schultz."

Uma2rman

In addition the track "Uma Thurman" is a song about how Vladimir has fallen in love with the real Uma Thurman.

Vamp Nail Polish

The color was allegedly worn by Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, however it later transpired she wore Mavala Las Vegas.


Eunice Huthart

She later went on to become a stunt double for such stars as Famke Janssen, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich and Uma Thurman.

Majesty Crush

Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster ("No. 1 Fan"), torture ("Boyfriend"), heroin ("Horse"), a female cashier at an adult book store ("Sunni Pie"), actresses ("Uma"), tennis stars ("Seles") and Italian porn stars ("Cicciolina").

Norman Parkinson

He spotted Nena von Schlebrügge, the mother of Uma Thurman at age 16 when she left her senior school in Stockholm, and brought her to London to model for Vogue magazine.

Pageboy

In the film Pulp Fiction, the character of Mia Wallace (played by actress Uma Thurman) sports a pageboy, as does AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde and Missi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Red carpet fashion in 2000

Among the more successful gowns was Uma Thurman's crimson Alberta Ferretti dress which was voted 20th best red carpet gown of all time in a 2008 poll held by Debenhams.


see also

Genetic determinism

Gattaca, a 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law

Laura Kasischke

Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood.