Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about her upbringing with her famous parents
In a recent conversation with The Hollywood ReporterThe 53-year-old actress opened up about her childhood with her parents, Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, calling it “very privileged.”
In the article published on Wednesday, Gwyneth couldn’t help but laugh when asked about director Josh Safdie’s explanation to Fashion that he wanted to cast someone with “a landed gentry quality” in the new film Marty Supreme.
“It has to be a quality that I radiate. I come from a very WASPy mother with Mayflower-esque roots, a daughter of the American Revolution, and things like that,” she said.
“So I think maybe epigenetically there’s some of that. And I was a very privileged kid,” she continued, “I grew up on the Upper East Side, and I went to a great school and everything.”
“So some of the things that he sees, which are also the things that I’ve been criticized for my whole life, are real,” Gwyneth added.
Gwyneth’s father, Bruce, was a director and producer who died of cancer in 2002, while her mother, Danner, is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning actress.
She began her acting career at the age of 17 with a 1989 television film written and directed by her father, titled High. She also won an Academy Award for her role in Shakespeare Love.
Gwyneth first tied the knot with Chris Martin and welcomed two children, daughter Apple, 21, and son Moses, 19. The couple was married from 2003 to 2014.
She is currently married to TV writer and producer Brad Falchuk.
