Life, Love Pace Paltrow

Actor Gwyneth Paltrow Lives Life At Her Own Speed

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Paltrow's father finally got the chance to work with his superstar daughter , directing her in the film "Duets." It was on that set that she learned of her Oscar nomination for "Shakespeare In Love." But there was another, greater distraction: diagnosed with throat cancer, her father was gravely ill throughout much of the shooting.

So when the awards started pouring in later that year she was on shaky ground.

"Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those awards being presented at that tremendous, tremendous acclaim, I think, was difficult for her to even digest," Danner explains. "And so every time that she'd won an award she, she would fall to pieces."

With proud parents at her side, Paltrow went on to win Best Actress gold at the Oscars.

But the joy was short-lived. In 2002 while celebrating Gwyneth's 30th birthday in Italy, Bruce Paltrow suddenly fell ill and died at a hospital in Rome. He was 58 years old. Gwyneth was devastated.

"I was so traumatized by the circumstances of his death," Paltrow says. Because we were celebrating my 30th birthday together and it was just really idyllic time.

"And he just died. So the trauma of it was really, I, I didn't sort through it for a while," Paltrow admits. "And, you know, in the throes of the grief and everything, I really, I, I, I sort of didn't know how I would come out the other side ever."

She did go back to work playing the mentally ill Sylvia Plath in "Sylvia." And then there was "Proof," her latest project based on the Tony-award winning play of the same name. Paltrow plays catherine, a promising math student who lapses into a deep deppresion as she watches her math genius father descend into madness.

Her character not only fears she too is going insane, but that she didn't do enough to care for her father while he was alive. The role resonated with Paltrow, who was still grieving the death of her own father at the time of shooting.

But unbeknownst to most during filming, Paltrow had reason to celebrate: she was pregnant. The father, musician Chris Martin, front man of the British rock band Coldplay, became her husband.

"He just said one day, 'I think if we have a girl, we should call her Apple.' And I just, I really loved the name. And you see her cheeks and you'll understand why," Paltrow says.

According to Star magazine, the couple is expecting another baby.

"And hopefully I'll have a bunch more and, you know, try and balance career and motherhood and, you know, do try and do it if I can," Paltrow says.

And why not? It seems clear marriage and motherhood look good on Gwyneth Paltrow.