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Gwyneth Paltrow is an American actress and entrepreneur. She rose to fame in 1995, starring opposite Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in Se7en. In 1999, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1998 period dramedy Shakespeare in Love. Her other famous films include Emma (1996), Great Expectations (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001) and the Iron Man franchise. Paltrow is the daughter of award-winning actress Blythe Danner and TV producer Bruce Paltrow, and her godfather is legendary director Steven Spielberg. She is also the founder and CEO of Goop. In 2013, she was named PEOPLE's World's Most Beautiful Woman.