Shakespeare in Love

CHRIS MARTIN & GWYNETH PALTROW: With her patrician beauty and impeccable Hollywood pedigree, Gwyneth Paltrow became a bona fide movie princess when she won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her role in 1998’s "Shakespeare in Love." But after courtships by a series of seeming ... morecelluloid princes including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, Luke Wilson and Robert Sean Leonard, the luminous blonde star caught paparazzi and pundits by surprise when she married Chris Martin, singer of the British pop-rock band Coldplay, in a secret wedding ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., on Dec. 5, 2003. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, daughter Apple, the following May, with son Moses arriving in April, 2006. The couple have divided their time between London and New York, with the young mother noting early in 2006 that she’s "not worked much through choice," preferring to focus on her new family.

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