Godparents of her daughter Apple are Simon Pegg, Mary Wigmore, and Chris Martin's Coldplay band-mate Jon Buckland.

October 2002: Met husband Chris Martin when she attended his band's (Coldplay's) concert.

Attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp in Vermont.

Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) for one year as an Art History major.

Was Maid of Honor at Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie.

October 1998: Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline's 100 Most.

Signed a contact with Estée Lauder for $10 million to promote its new line of fragrance, "Pleasures".

1998: One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

Attended St. Augustine By The Sea in Los Angeles and the Spence School in New York City.

Played Thomas Jefferson's daughter in Jefferson in Paris (1995). Her mother, Blythe Danner, played Jefferson's wife, Martha, in 1776 (1972), just before Gwyneth was conceived.

She earns $3 million per year endorsing 'Estee Lauder' on television and in print advertisements.

Her godfather Steven Spielberg is also the godfather of Drew Barrymore.

Was originally signed on to play Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004), but dropped out.

Attended Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie in Scotland.

Her mother, Blythe Danner, was about five months pregnant with the future actress when she appeared in Columbo: Étude in Black (1972) (TV) . The episode also starred John Cassavetes, and aired during the show's first season.

A couple sued Gwyneth for an undisclosed amount claiming that the actress injured them during an April 1999 car accident.

Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) fame) since she was seven.

15 August 1998: Gave $21,000 watch to boyfriend Ben Affleck as a birthday present.

She does not employ a nanny to take care of her daughter, a rarity among actors in the film business.

Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie The Avengers (1998).

20 December 1996: Engaged to actor Brad Pitt.

Daughter, with Chris Martin, 'Apple Blythe Alison Martin', born on 14 May, 2004, in London, England, UK.

2002: Nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Proof", performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England.

Her friendship with best friend Madonna ended, because she couldn't get along with Madonna's extravagant lifestyle.

Practices yoga.

Spent 70 hours in labor awaiting the birth of her first child.

1996: Confirmed as the next Calvin Klein model.

Owned a flat in London, England, UK.

Turned down the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002).

As part of research for her role as an obese woman in Shallow Hal (2001), wore the 200-pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely. She said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society.

Revealed that she named her daughter Apple, because apples are whole, sweet and crisp. The baby's middle name honors her grandmothers, Blythe Danner and Alison Martin.

After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, she can speak fairly good Spanish.

1990: Graduated from The Spence School in New York City.

Auditioned for "Vickie" in Reality Bites (1994), but lost out to Janeane Garofalo.

October 2005: Expecting her second child with husband Chris Martin.

Sticks to a macrobiotic diet.

Wears a size 9 shoe.

Measurements: 33 1/2B-25-35. Called "a designer's dream". (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Was hospitalized and then released (14 January 2008).

Her mother Blythe Danner is of Anglo-Saxon descent and her father Bruce Paltrow, being Ashkenazi Russian Jewish, had many generations of rabbis in the family tree.

When she played Sharon Stone on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), Stone felt offended and criticized her performance (1999).

Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw at their home in the Hamptons.

Did her own singing in the movie Duets (2000).

Sister of Jake Paltrow; first cousin of actress Katherine Moennig, and Hillary Danner; niece of Harry Danner.

She and her husband Chris Martin purchased Kate Winslet's North London home in Belsize Park.

Met with James Cameron for the role of Rose in Titanic (1997).

Friends with Stella McCartney.

2002: TV commercials and print ads for Spain's department store chain El Corte Inglés' spring line.

Was a sister of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.

Gave birth to her second child, a boy named Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, in New York City at 9 a.m., weighing 8 lbs., 4 oz (8 April 2006).

Long-time close friendship with actress Mary Wigmore, who also appeared (albeit briefly) in Paltrow's films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Shallow Hal (2001).

She speaks French quite well, having spent a summer in Paris when in her early twenties.

Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes of the medical drama "St. Elsewhere" (1982). Gwyneth's dad, Bruce Paltrow, was the producer of the series.

Her natural hair color is brown.

Is good friends with Helena Christensen, who was one of the first people to visit Gwyneth in hospital after she gave birth to her son Moses Bruce Anthony Martin.

Her son, Moses, is named after a song Chris Martin wrote for her and appears on Coldplay's "Live 2003" album. Moses is also her father's Hebrew name.

Went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica for one year.

13 April 2003: Attended the ceremony in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, in which she was named "adopted daughter". She first visited the town as a young schoolgirl and has since frequently returned to it, enamored - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside.