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"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. "

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Uma Thurman is an American actress best-known for her role in Pulp Fiction.

Thurman grew up in a studying Buddhism. Her mother, Neva von Schlebrugg was married to Timothy Leary for a short time before she married her Uma's father, Robert Thurman -- a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies.

In a 1995 interview with Cosmopolitan she said, "I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. My father, when very young, was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. He now teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University and is regarded as this country's foremost authority on Buddhism. When the Dalai Lama comes to America, it's my father who is his host. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them."

She has three siblings, all brothers: Ganden, Dechen, and Mipam. At the age of 15 she left her high school to pursue an acting career in New York City.

Thurman has been married twice: first to actor Gary Oldman for two years; second to Ethan Hawke, who she met on the set of Gattaca. Hawke and Thurman have two children, daughter Maya Ray and son Levon Roan. In 2004, the couple divorced.

Thurman is six feet tall, and afflicted with slight body dysmorphia.