| UMA THURMAN - "The
Bride"
LUCY LIU - O-Ren Ishii
DARYL HANNAH - Elle Driver
VIVICA
A. FOX - Vernita Green
MICHAEL PARKS - Sheriff
SONNY CHIBA - Hattori
Hanzo
CHIAKI KURIYAMA - Go Go Yubari
JULIE DREYFUS - Sofi Fatale
GORDON LIU - Johnny Mo
JUN KUNIMURA - Boss Tanaka
KAZUKU KITAMURA -
Boss Koji
AKAJI MARO - Boss Ozawa
Uma Thurman has proven herself
to be one of the most versatile young actresses around, playing a wide variety
of compelling characters. The daughter of a psychologist and a college professor,
Thurman was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Woodstock, New York. She attended
a preparatory school in New England, where at fifteen she was discovered by two
New York agents. At sixteen she transferred to the Professional Children's School
in New York City to pursue an acting career. Thurman
first came forcefully to public attention in 1988, when she segued from Johnny
Be Good, opposite Anthony Michael Hall, to an eye-catching cameo as Venus on the
half shell in Terry Gilliam's epic fantasy The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(1998). She went on to receive worldwide critical acclaim in her third movie for
her portrayal of a virginal 18th–century convent girl, Cecile de Volanges,
coldly seduced by a ruthless John Malkovich in Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons.
Thurman's career has been defined from the beginning by
a bold but highly selective choice of roles and collaborators: no commercial throwaways
allowed. The following year she starred for adventurous director Philip Kaufman
in Henry & June (1990), playing the neurotic and exotic bisexual spouse of
archetypal bohemian novelist Henry Miller (Fred Ward). |
