Uma Thurman Movies - Page 2

She was named for Uma, the Hindu goddess of light and beauty. At the age of 14 she made her professional stage debut, playing Abigail in a local production of The Crucible. At 15, she dropped out of Northfield-Mt. Hermon to concentrate on modeling auditions (though the school still touts an unflattering photo of the teen Thurman among its "famous alumni"). At 16, she was a professional model, and made her film debut as a thieving teen seductress in the trashy Kiss Daddy Goodnight with Steve Buscemi. At 17, she played the girlfriend of high school football hero Anthony Michael Hall in Johnny Be Good, and at 18, in her third film, she became a star playing the young Venus in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.