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Uma to co-host Nobel concert
15/11/2007 14:57 - (SA)
Oslo - Actress Uma Thurman will join actor Tommy Lee Jones as co-host of the Nobel Peace Concert honouring former US Vice President Al Gore and the UN's climate change panel, organizers announced on Wednesday.
The December 11 concert, held the day after the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, draws top music and film stars, and is broadcast to more than 100 countries, a news release said.
Organisers earlier announced that Jones, who was Gore's roommate at Harvard University, would cost-host the concert and that the line-up of performers included Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge, who won an Academy Award this year for the song I Need to Wake Up, which featured in Gore's environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Thurman, 37, starred in such movies as Pulp Fiction, Dangerous Liaisons, and the Kill Bill films.
'Iconic style'
She is also politically active in supporting gun control and fighting poverty.
Geir Lundestad, the secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, said they were delighted that Thurman had agreed to the task because "she brings iconic style and substance to the event and will help us tremendously in our mission of spreading the global message of peace."
Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to help spread awareness about man-made global warming.
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