Uma Karuna Thurman was born 29th April 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her background is not only highly intellectual but also quite exotic and undeniably very interesting. Her mother, Nena von Schlebrügge (born 1941) who originates from Trelleborg, Sweden used to be a model in her youth, but these days works as a psychotherapist. Nena was spotted in a Stockholm playground by society photographer Norman Parkinson when she was just 16. She was taken to London to model for Vogue, from there moving off to New York to became a top fashionista. She was briefly married to the LSD guru Timothy Leary in 1964. Their marriage, which took place in Nepal, was the subject of a 15-minute documentary entitled You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You. Uma’s maternal grandmother, Brigit Holmquist, was a great Swedish beauty who, in 1930s Berlin, married the monocled Westphalian Baron Karl von Schlebrugge, who resisted the nazis. Uma’s father is Professor Robert Thurman, son of New York stage actress Elizabeth Farrar, who is a professor at the Columbia University, teaching Indo-Tibetan Buddhist knowledge. He was actually the first westerner to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. It can be said that it was Uma’s very own father who actually introduced Buddhism to the USA. Uma’s parents were introduced to each other by nobody less then Salvador Dalí. In 1967 Nena and Robert Thurman were married and they are still going strong together today. Robert and Nena gave their children a Buddhist upbringing. Uma is named after an Uma Chenpo (in Tibetan; Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning “Great Middle Way”, in Polynesian; her name means “kiss”). She has three brothers, Ganden (born 1971), Dechen (1973) and Mipam (1978), and a half-sister named Taya (1960) from her father’s previous marriage
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