Born on April 29, 1970 in Boston, Uma Thurman, iconic actress of American cinema and muse of director Quentin Tarantino (she starred in the cult films «Pulp Fiction» and «Kill Bill»), turns 56 today. Daughter of the German psychotherapist and former model Nena von Schlebrügge and Robert Thurman, one of the world’s leading experts on Buddhism, she grew up in Massachusetts with her three brothers: Dechen, Ganden and Mipam. Perhaps not everyone knows that the actress has a second name, Karuna, which means “compassion” and “mercy” in Mahāyāna Buddhism. And this is not the only curiosity about her.
