UMA THURMAN

UMA THURMAN

Tam adı Uma Karuna Thurman olan Hollywood’un ünlü yıldızı Uma Thurman, 29 Nisan 1970'te, Tibetli Budist bir rahip ve aynı zamanda Colombia Üniversitesi profesörü olan bir baba ve model bir annenin dördüncü çocuğu olarak Amerika’nın Boston kentinde dünyaya geldi. Dechen, Ganden ve Mipam adında 3 erkek kardeşi olan Thurman’ın ailesi Budizme inandıkları için çocuklarına bu Hint isimlerini verdiler. (Uma ismi, “kutsal bağışlayıcı” anlamına geliyor)

3 erkek kardeşiyle birlikte Massachusetts Amherst ve New York Woodstock’ta büyüyen, New England’da bir konservatuarda okuyan sanatçı, 15 yaşındayken New York’lu iki menajer tarafından keşfedildi. 16 yaşında, oyunculuk dalında kariyer yapmak üzere New York’taki Profesyonel Çocuklar Okulu’na geçiş yapman aktris, burada geçimini bulaşıkçılıktan modelliğe pek çok farklı iş yaparak sağladı.

İlk olarak Anthony Michael Hall’le birlikte rol aldığı “Johhny Be Good” ile kamera karşısına geçen Thurman’a uluslararası ün kazandıran film, tanrıça Venüs rolünü üstlendiği, Terry Gillian’ın 1988 yapımlı fantezi tarzındaki “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Baron Munchausen’in Maceraları” oldu.

Stephen Frears’ın 1988 yapımlı “Dangerous Liaisons” adlı yapıtında ünlü aktör John Malkovich tarafından baştan çıkarılan 18. yüzyıl manastır bakiresi portresi, çarpıcı ve çok yönlü bir aktris olan Thurman’a eleştirmenlerin övgüsünü getirdi. Ertesi yıl Fred Ward ve Maria de Medeiros’la birlikte rol aldığı, Philip Kaufman yapımı “Henry & June”da Henry Miller’ın nevrotik, erotik ve eşcinsel karısını canlandırdı.

Güzel yıldız, 1990′da John Boorman’ın yönettiği “Where The Heart Is” adlı komedide Dabney Coleman’ın üç şımarık çocuğundan biri olan Daphne McBain rolüyle sinemaseverlerin karşısına çıktı. 1992 yılında ise Phil Joanou’nun gerilim tarzındaki “Final Analysis” filminde Richard Gere ve Kim Bassinger’la birlikte kamera karşısına geçerek, Diana Baylor adındaki bir psikoterapi hastasını canlandırdı.

Bunun ardından, John Malcovich’le “Jennifer Eight” adlı yeni bir gerilim filminde bir kez daha bir araya gelerek Andy Garcia’nın kör kız arkadaşı Helena rolünü üstlendi. 1993 yılında John McNaughton’un yönettiği “Mad Dog and Glory”de Bill Murray’nin hayatını kurtarmak için Robert de Niro’nun hizmetine giren Glory isimli bir barmaid rolünü canlandırmaktaydı. Aktristin belki de bugüne kadarki en egzantrik filmi ise, yine aynı yıl çekilen Gus Van Sant yapımı “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues” oldu. Thurman filmde sinemaseverlerin karşısına otostopçu biseksüel hippi “Sissy Hankshaw” karakteriyle çıkmıştı.

1995′te Quentin Tarantino’nun büyük yankı uyandıran “Pulp Fiction / Ucuz Roman”ındaki rolüyle Oscar’a aday gösterilen sanatçı, filmde komik bir mafya babasının seksi sevgilisi Mia Wallace’ı canlandırmaktaydı. Aynı yıl Vanessa Redgrave’le birlikte romantik bir çalışma olan “A Month By The Lake”te rol alan aktris, 1996 yılında Ted Demme’in yönettiği “Beautiful Girls” ve Michael Lehmann’ın yönettiği “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” filmleriyle kamera karşısına geçti.

Bir sonraki yıl Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney ve Chris O’Donnell ile birlikte kamera karşısına geçtiği “Batman & Robin”de Poison Ivy/Dr. Pamela Isley karakterini canladıran aktris, Ethan Hawke’yle başrolünü paylaştığı “Gattaca”da ise Irene Cassini rolündeydi. Sanatçı filmin setinde yakışıklı aktör Ethan Hawke?la tanıştı ve çift kısa bir süre sonra evlendi. Oyuncu, bu evlilikten Maya Ray (1998) ve Roan?ı (2002) dünyaya getirdi.

Thurman, 1998′de Gérard Depardieu ile birlikte başrollerini paylaştığı ve Fransız bir soylu rolünü canlandırdığı “Les Misérables / Sefiller”le, ardından da Ralph Fiennes ve Sean Connery ile birlikte oynadığı “The Avengers / Tatlı Sert” filmiyle izleyiciyle buluştu. 1999 baharında New york Classic Stage Company’de Moliére’in “The Misantrphe”unun modern uyarlamasıyla ilk tiyatro çıkışını yapan Thurman, aynı yıl Woody Allen’ın “Sweet and Lowdown” isimli filminde Sean Penn ve Samantha Morton’la birlikte rol aldı.

Farklı tarzda ve zorlu pek çok rol üstlenerek kendini kanıtlamış olan Thurman, “Sweet and Lowdown” filminde oynadıktan sonra modellik günlerine geri döndü ve 2000 yılında Fransız kozmetik firması Lancome?da model ve reklam sözcüsü olarak çalışmaya başladı. Empire Magazine?nin sinema tarihindeki en seksi 100 bayandan biri olarak kabul ettiği sanatçıyı, 1900?lerde geçen “The Golden Bowl / Altın Kap”da zengin bir mirasçı olarak başrolde izledi sinemaseverler. Sanatçının yine aynı yıl rol aldığı bir başka dönem draması da, 17.yy. Fransa’sında geçen “Vatel” oldu.

Aktris, 2002 yapımlı “Hysterical Blindness” filmindeki rolüyle “En İyi Kadın Oyuncu” dalında Altın Küre?ye layık görüldü. “Tape / Kaset”te gerçek hayattaki oyuncu eşi Ethan Hawke ile kamera karşısına geçen oyuncu, filmdeki güçlü karakter rolüyle dikkatleri çekti.

Aksiyon filmlerinin temposuna alışkın olan Thurman, Quantin Tarantino?nun yönetmenliğini üstlendiği 2003 yapımı “Kill Bill”de oynamayı kabul etti fakat filmin çekimleri güzel yıldızın hamileliği yüzünden ertelendi. Hawke?la olan evliliğinden ikinci çocuğunu dünyaya getiren Thurman, hızlı bir şekilde kilo vererek rolü için hazırlıklarını tamamladı. İki bölüm halinde çekilen ve ilk bölümü 2003?ün ekim ayında vizyona giren “Kill Bill Vol. 1″ içerdiği aşırı şiddet öğeleriyle seyirciyi adeta şok eder nitelikte bir yapıt olma özelliğine sahip.

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Thurman at a Cannes press conference, 2001
Born Uma Karuna Thurman
April 29, 1970 (1970-04-29) (age 38 )
Boston, Massachusetts
Years active 1987 - present
Spouse(s) Gary Oldman (1990-1992)
Ethan Hawke (1998-2004)
[show]Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Miniseries
2003 Hysterical Blindness
Other awards
Saturn Award for Best Actress (film)
2003 Kill Bill: Vol.1

She is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her work under the direction of Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), Gattaca (1997) and the two Kill Bill movies (2003–04).

She is the face of Virgin Media in the United Kingdom and, along with Scarlett Johansson, has modeled handbags and other items for French brand Louis Vuitton. At 6ft (1.83 m) tall, she is one of the tallest actresses in American movies.


Family and early life
Thurman's mother, Nena Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge was a fashion model born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1941, to German Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, and Birgit Holmquist, from Trelleborg, Sweden. In 1930, Birgit Holmquist, Thurman's grandmother, modeled for a nude statue that stands overlooking the harbor of Smygehuk. Thurman's father, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, was born in New York City to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., an Associated Press editor and U.N. translator. Thurman's mother was introduced to LSD guru Timothy Leary by Salvador Dalí; and married Leary in 1964; then wed Thurman's father in 1967.

Thurman's father, Robert, a scholar and professor at Columbia University of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, was the first westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He gave his children a Buddhist upbringing: Uma is named after an Dbuma Chenpo (in Tibetan, "db" is silent; Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning "Great Middle Way") and pronounced /umə/ in General American, not /jumə/. She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1971), Dechen (b. 1973) and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1960) from her father's previous marriage. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India as children, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home.

Thurman grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York. She is described as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tall frame, angular bone structure, unusual name (sometimes using the name “Uma Karen” instead of her birth name) and size 11 feet (Thurman's large feet would later be filmed by Quentin Tarantino in the films he made with her). When she was 10 years old, a friend's mother suggested a nose job.

As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, which she discussed in an interview with Talk magazine in 2001.

Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon, a college preparatory boarding school in Northfield, Massachusetts, where she was earned average grades, but excelled in acting. Talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible, and offered her the chance to act professionally. Thurman moved to New York City to pursue acting and to attend the Professional Children's School, but she dropped out before graduating.


Career

Early works, 1987–1989

Thurman as Venus in 1988’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.Thurman began her career as a fashion model at age 15. She signed with the agency Click Models. Her modeling credits included Glamour Magazine. In 1989, she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's annual Hot issue.

Thurman made her movie debut in 1988, appearing in four films that year. Her first two were the high school comedy Johnny Be Good and the teen thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight.. Thurman appeared in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, playing the goddess Venus alongside Oliver Reed’s Vulcan. During her entrance Thurman briefly appears nude in a homage to Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus. With a budget of $46 million and box office receipts of only $8 million, the film was a commercial failure.

Her breakthrough came in her role as Cecile de Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons. Actresses Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer earned Oscar nominations for their performances, and Thurman drew attention for her topless scene in the film. At the time, she was insecure about her appearance, and fled to London for almost a year, during which she wore only loose, baggy clothing.

Soon after the release of Dangerous Liaisons, the media were eager to profile Thurman. She was praised by her co-star John Malkovich, who said of her, “There is nothing twitchy teenager-ish about her, I haven’t met anyone like her at that age. Her intelligence and poise stand out. But there’s something else. She’s more than a little haunted.”

Major works, 1990–1993
In 1990, Thurman co-starred with Fred Ward in the sexually provocative drama Henry & June, the first film to receive an NC-17 rating. Because of the rating, it never played in a wide release but critics embraced her; The New York Times wrote, “Thurman, as the Brooklyn-accented June, takes a larger-than-life character and makes her even bigger, though the performance is often as curious as it is commanding”.

Thurman’s first starring role in a major production was Gus Van Sant's 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. It was a critical and financial disappointment; Thurman was nominated for a Worst Actress Razzie. The Washington Post described her acting as shallow, writing that, “Thurman’s strangely passive characterization doesn’t go much deeper than drawling and flexing her prosthetic thumbs”. Thurman also starred opposite Robert De Niro in the drama Mad Dog and Glory, another box office disappointment. Later that year, she auditioned for Stanley Kubrick while he was casting a movie to be called Wartime Lies, which was never produced. She described working with him as a “really bad experience”.


1994–1998

Thurman in 1994’s Pulp Fiction. Her character in the film was based on Danish actress Anna Karina.After Mad Dog and Glory, Thurman auditioned for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, which would become one of the most successful cult hits of all time, grossing over $107 million on a budget of only $8 million USD. The Washington Post wrote that Thurman was “serenely unrecognizable in a black wig, [and] is marvelous as a zoned-out gangster’s girlfriend”. Noted SA J. Sidebottom was behind Uma's hairstyle and was at first very much opposed to the use of a wig to conjure the iconic look he sought. After a brief departure from the film's crew, Sidebottom was ultimately convinced by Tarantino that the faux-nature of the wig was consistent with the motif of the film. Thurman was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the following year. Entertainment Weekly claimed that, “of the five women nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category this year, only [Thurman] can claim that her performance gave the audience fits”. Thurman also became one of Tarantino’s favorite actresses to cast, stating in a 2003 issue of Time: “[Thurman]’s up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory”.

She starred opposite Janeane Garofalo in the moderately successful 1996 romantic comedy The Truth About Cats & Dogs as a ditzy blonde supermodel. In 1998, she starred opposite her future husband Ethan Hawke in the dystopian science fiction film Gattaca. Although Gattaca was not a success at the box office, it drew many positive reviews and became successful on the home video market, some critics were not as impressed with Thurman, such as the Los Angeles Times which stated she was “as emotionally uninvolved as ever”.

The two biggest film flops of Thurman’s career came in 1997 and 1998. She played Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin, the fourth film of the popular franchise. Batman & Robin became one of the largest critical flops in history. Thurman’s performance in the campy film received mixed reviews, and critics compared her with actress Mae West. The New York Times wrote, “like Mae West, she mixes true femininity with the winking womanliness of a drag queen”. A similar comparison was made by the Houston Chronicle: “Thurman, to arrive at a ’40s femme fatale, sometimes seems to be doing Mae West by way of Jessica Rabbit”. The next year brought The Avengers, another major financial and critical flop. CNN described Thurman as, “so distanced you feel like you’re watching her through the wrong end of a telescope”.[26] She received Razzie Award nominations for both films. She closed out 1998 with Les Misérables, a film version of Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name, directed by Bille August, in which she played Fantine.


Hiatus, 1998–2002
After the birth of her first baby in 1998, Thurman took a rest from major roles to concentrate on motherhood. Her next roles were in low-budget and television films, including Tape, Vatel, and Hysterical Blindness. In 2000 she narrated a theatrical work by composer John Moran entitled Book of the Dead (2nd Avenue) at The Public Theater. She won a Golden Globe award for Hysterical Blindness, a film for which she also served as executive producer. In the film she played a New Jersey woman in the 1980s searching for romance. The San Francisco Chronicle review wrote, “Thurman so commits herself to the role, eyes blazing and body akimbo, that you start to believe that such a creature could exist — an exquisite-looking woman so spastic and needy that she repulses regular Joes. Thurman has bent the role to her will”.

2003–present
After a five-year hiatus, Thurman returned in 2003 in John Woo's film Paycheck, followed by Tarantino's, Kill Bill. Paycheck was only moderately successful with critics and at the box office, but Kill Bill relaunched her career.

In Kill Bill she played assassin Beatrix Kiddo, out for revenge against her former lover. Tarantino wrote the part specifically for her. He also cited Thurman as his muse while writing the film, and also gave her joint credit for the character, whom the two conceived on the set of Pulp Fiction from the sole image of a bride covered in blood.

Production was delayed for several months after Thurman became pregnant, as Tarantino refused to recast the part. The film took nine months to shoot, and was filmed in five different countries. The role was also her most demanding , and she spent three months training in martial arts, swordsmanship, and Japanese. The two-part action epic became an instant cult classic and scored highly with critics. The film series earned Thurman Golden Globe nominations for both entries, and three MTV Movie Awards for Best Female Performance and twice for Best Fight. Rolling Stone likened Thurman to “an avenging angel out of a 1940s Hollywood melodrama”.

The inspirations for “The Bride” were several B-movie action heroines. Thurman's main inspiration for the role was the title character of Coffy (played by Pam Grier) and the character of Gloria Swenson from Gloria (played by Gena Rowlands). She said that the two characters are “two of the only women I've ever seen be truly women [while] holding a weapon”. Coffy was screened for Thurman by Tarantino prior to beginning production on the film, to help her model the character.

By 2005, Thurman was one of Hollywood's highest paid actresses, commanding a salary of $12.5 million per film. Her first film of the year was Be Cool, the sequel to 1995's Get Shorty, which reunited her with her Pulp Fiction castmate John Travolta. In the film she played the widow of a deceased music business executive. The film received poor reviews, and came in below expectations at the box office. In 2005 she starred in Prime with Meryl Streep, playing a woman in her late thirties romancing a man in his early twenties. Thurman's last film of the year was a remake of The Producers in which she played Ulla, a Swedish stage actress hoping to win a part in a new Broadway musical. Originally, the producers of the film planned to have another singer dub in Thurman's musical numbers, but she was eager to do her own vocals, She is credited for her songs in the credits. The film was considered a bomb at the box office, but many praised Thurman's efforts, including A. O. Scott of the New York Times who said: "Uma Thurman as a would-be actress is the one bit of genuine radiance in this aggressively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle."

With a successful film career, Thurman once again became a desired model. Cosmetics company Lancôme selected her as their spokeswoman, and named several shades of lipstick after her, though they were sold only in Asia). In 2005, she became a spokeswoman for the French fashion house Louis Vuitton.

On February 7, 2006, Thurman was named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature.

In May 2006 Thurman bought the film rights to the Frank Schätzing novel "The Swarm", which is in development and due for release in 2008. When the movie "The Women" was in pre-production this year, Thurman was cast as Crytal Allen, along Anette Bening, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Lisa Kudrow and Anne Hathaway, being directed by James L. Brooks, but the director was changed and Thurman was not longer cast. In July 2006 Thurman starred opposite Luke Wilson in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Thurman portrayed a super-heroine named "G-Girl" who is dumped by her boyfriend and then takes her revenge upon him. Thurman received a reported $14 million for the role, but the film flopped. Once again Thurman was well-received, yet the film was not.

In February 2008 she starred opposite Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Accidental Husband, a romantic comedy about a woman who finds herself married while engaged to another man. It seems like archetypal Hollywood contrivance, but according to Thurman a similar situation happened in New York.

Thurman starred as "Elsa" in the British telefilm My Zinc Bed, in which she plays a cocaine addict, starring opposite Paddy Considine and Jonathan Pryce.

She finished filming "Motherhood", an indie comedy, about the challenging of a mother preparing her son's birthday, Uma dyed her hair of brunette for this role.

She will star in the film version of the 50's books "Eloise In Paris", playing the role of Nanny, this film is to be directed by Charles Shyer.

Thurman also agreed to star in the new Muppets movie, playing a ticket clerk.

Bollywood director Vishal Bharadwaj has announced his interest in Thurman to star in his latest film venture opposite Hrithik Roshan, in a biographical film of the life of actress Nadira. The film is still in its pre-production stage. Uma thurman has shown interest in playing either Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo.


Activism and charity work
Thurman supports the United States Democratic Party, and has given money to the campaigns of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph Driscoll. She supports gun control laws, and in 2000, she participated in Marie Claire’s “End Gun Violence Now” campaign. She also participated in Planned Parenthood’s “March for Women’s Lives” to support the legality of abortion. Thurman is a member of the board of the New York- and Boston-based organization Room to Grow, a charitable organization providing aid to families and children born into poverty. She serves on the board of the Tibet House.

In 2007, Thurman hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway with actor Kevin Spacey.

Thurman owns a townhouse in New York's Greenwich Village,[45] but lives in Hyde Park, New York. Though raised as a Buddhist, she considers herself agnostic.

Thurman is engaged to marry London based Franco-Swiss financier Arpad Busson, supermodel Elle Macpherson's former partner, whom she began dating in late 2007. Prior to becoming engaged to Arpad, Uma dated Andre Balazs from 2004 -2006.[46][47] Their romance began at a private dinner in Milan co-hosted by Gianni Versace and Tony Blair.[citation needed] People magazine confirmed on June 27, 2008 that Thurman and Busson are engaged.

While living in London after shooting Dangerous Liaisons, she began dating director Phil Joanou. On the set of State Of Grace, she met English actor Gary Oldman. They were married in 1990, but the marriage ended in 1992.

On May 1, 1998, she married actor Ethan Hawke, whom she met on the set of Gattaca; his novel Ash Wednesday is dedicated to "Karuna", Thurman's middle name. Thurman acknowledged that they had married because she was pregnant; at their wedding she was seven months along. The marriage produced two children, daughter Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke (b. July 8, 1998) and son Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke (b. January 15, 2002).

In 2003, Thurman and Hawke separated, and in 2004 they filed for divorce. When asked on The Oprah Winfrey Show if there was “betrayal of some kind” during the marriage, Thurman said, “There was some stuff like that at the end. We were having a difficult time, and you know how the axe comes down and how people behave and how people express their unhappiness”. Director Quentin Tarantino has described Thurman as his "muse." However, in a 2004 Rolling Stone cover story, Thurman and Tarantino denied having had a romantic relationship, despite Tarantino once having told a reporter, “I’m not saying that we haven’t, and I’m not saying that we have”.


Filmography
Year****** Film ***************************Role *****************************Other notes
1988 ******Johnny Be Good ******************Georgia Elkans
**********Dangerous Liaisons**************** Cécile de Volanges
**********Kiss Daddy Goodnight **************Laura
**********The Adventures of Baron Munchausen** Venus/Rose
1990 ******Henry & June******************** June Miller
**********Where the Heart Is Daphne **********McBain
1991 ******Robin Hood **********************Maid Marian *******************John Irvin version
1992 ******Final Analysis ********************Diana Baylor
**********Jennifer 8 ***********************Helena Robertson
1993****** Mad Dog and Glory ****************Glory
**********Even Cowgirls Get the Blues *********Sissy Hankshaw
1994 ******Pulp Fiction *********************Mia Wallace ********************Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1995 ******A Month by the Lake **************Miss Beaumont
1996 *****The Truth About Cats & Dogs *********Noelle
**********Beautiful Girls******************** Andera
1997 *****Gattaca ************************Irene Cassini
*********Batman & Robin ******************Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy
1998***** Les Misérables *******************Fantine
*********The Avengers ********************Emma Peel
1999***** Sweet and Lowdown ***************Blanche
2000 *****Vatel **************************Anne de Montausier
*********The Golden Bowl****************** Charlotte Stant
2001 *****Tape **************************Amy Randall
2002 ******Hysterical Blindness **************Debby Miller**************************** Producer
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, TV Mini-series
2003******Paycheck **********************Dr. Rachel Porter
**********Kill Bill Volume 1 The Bride/Black Mamba Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
2004****** Kill Bill Volume 2 Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride/Mommy/Black Mamba Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
2005 *****The Naked Brothers Band ***********Herself
**********Be Cool Edie ********************Athens
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Kushana (Voice) English re-dub version of 1984 movie
Prime Rafi Gardet
The Producers: The Movie Musical Ulla
2006 ********My Super Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Johnson/G-Girl Nominated: People's Choice Awards
2008 ********The Life Before Her Eyes *******************Diana
***********The Accidental Husband ********************Emma Lloyd also Producer
************My Zinc Bed ****************************Elsa Quinn
2009 ********Motherhood ****************************Eliza Welsh **********post-production
************Eloise in Paris ***************************Nanny **************pre-production
TBA The Swarm[citation Filmrights bought by Thurman