Gwyneth Paltrow's Best Movies
Gwyneth Paltrow has made 10 movies in which she starred in a leading role since her first movie 23 years ago called "Shakespeare in Love" (1998) in which she portrayed the character Viola De Lesseps.
The highest grossing movie of Gwyneth Paltrow's career, "Iron Man 3", sold nearly $408,992,272 at the box office in 2012.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Movies

Iron Man 3
Movie Genre: Action
Running Time: 130 minutes
Directed by: Shane Black
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Pepper Potts
Box Office Sales: $408,992,272
Rated:
For sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief suggestive content.
Synopsis: Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Released 2012




Iron Man
Movie Genre: Action
Running Time: 126 minutes
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Virginia "Pepper" Potts
Box Office Sales: $318,604,126
Rated:
For some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.
Released 2008




Shakespeare in Love
Movie Genre: Romantic Comedy
Directed by: John Madden
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Viola De Lesseps
Box Office Sales: $100,317,794
Rated:
For sexuality.
Released 1998




The Talented Mr. Ripley
Movie Genre: Drama
Running Time: 139 minutes
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Marge Sherwood
Box Office Sales: $81,292,135
Rated:
For violence, language and brief nudity.
Released 1999




Shallow Hal
Movie Genre: Romantic Comedy
Running Time: 114 minutes
Directed by: Bobby Farrelly
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Rosemary Shanahan
Box Office Sales: $70,836,296
Rated:
For language and sexual content.
Released 2001




A Perfect Murder
Movie Genre: Thriller/Suspense
Running Time: 120 minutes
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Emily Bradford Taylor
Box Office Sales: $67,658,331
Rated:
For violence, sexuality and language.
Synopsis: A Perfect Murder is based on Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Married to commodities trader Stephen Taylor, Emily Bradford is romantically involved with artist David Shaw. Aware of this affair, Stephen offers David $500,000 to murder Emily, and David agrees. The plan is calculated to make the murder look like an accident, but events soon go on an unscheduled course.
Released 1998




Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Movie Genre: Adventure
Running Time: 107 minutes
Directed by: Kerry Conran
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Polly Perkins
Box Office Sales: $37,760,080
Rated:
For sequences of stylized sci-fi violence and brief mild language.
Synopsis: Sky Captain and reporter Polly Perkins investigate the disappearance of well-known scientists around the world. Together with Frankly Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex they try to stop Dr. Totenkopf from executing his evil plot to destroy the world.
Released 2004




Bounce
Movie Genre: Drama
Running Time: 106 minutes
Directed by: Don Roos
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Abby Janello
Box Office Sales: $36,805,288
Rated:
For some language and sensuality.
Synopsis: Buddy Amaral one day sells his seat on a sold-out airline flight to a stranger, only to find out later that the jet crashed killing the man. Buddy is haunted by this incident and later looks up the victim’s window, Abby Janello, with whom he falls in love. However he is struggling with the issue of whether to tell Abby he was indirectly responsible for her husband’s death.
Released 2000




Country Strong
Movie Genre: Drama
Running Time: 120 minutes
Directed by: Shana Feste
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Kelly Canter
Box Office Sales: $20,218,921
Rated:
For thematic elements involving alcohol abuse and some sexual content.
Synopsis: A rising young singer-songwriter, Beau Hutton, gets involved with fallen country music star Kelly Canter and the pair embark on a tour to resurrect her career, helmed by her husband/manager, James, who accompanies them along with beauty queen-turned-singer Chiles Stanton. Complications arising from romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
Released 2010




The Good Night
Movie Genre: Romantic Comedy
Gwyneth Paltrow's Character Name: Dora
Box Office Sales: $22,441
Rated:
For language and some sexual content.
Released 2007


