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I can show you one recent college graduate who’s not struggling on the job market — Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter, Apple Martin. In addition to modeling, most recently for Chloé, and singing, Martin is now acting as well.
Martin was cast in the upcoming Nancy Meyers film, which also stars Penélope Cruz, Kieran Culkin, Jude Law, and Owen Wilson. Very few details about the movie or the characters have been released, so there’s no way to know how large Martin’s role will be. She had a small cameo in the premiere episode of Rooster, so this is not technically her acting debut. But it is definitely her first real step in Hollywood, where she will be following in the footsteps of both her mother and her grandmother, Blythe Danner. No pressure.
Obviously, Martin’s career ambitions have changed a lot since her freshman year of college when, she told The Cut, she wanted to be a lawyer. “I kept myself away from the arts because I was worried about perception, and because I’m constantly compared to my parents,” she said. After a couple of years, however, Martin realized she can’t control how she is perceived by her peers, so she’d be better off doing what she actually loved.
Having just graduated from Vanderbilt University less than a month ago, Martin has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Right now she is focused on acting, but if she wanted to switch gears and start a wellness brand in a couple of years, who’s to stop her?
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