Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born on September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner and television producer Bruce Paltrow, Paltrow grew up like no stranger to the world of Hollywood. After living in Los Angeles, Paltrow moved to New York at age 11. The precocious young blonde made her stage debut when she was just 5 years old in a theater in the Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts, where her mother performed in the summer.