Goldie Hawn the biography

Goldie Hawn, Actress, - Biography

Actress

Birth name Goldie Jeanne Hawn
Born November 21, 1945, Washington, D.C., United States

Height 5 foot 6 ( 1.68 M )

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director & producer. She is best known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also a well-known, Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television & film actor as well.

Hawn was born in Washington, DC, to Edward Rutledge Hawn (a band musician who played at major events in Washington) & Laura Steinhoff (a housewife); she has a sister, Patricia, & had a brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father, a descendant of Edward Rutledge ( a signer of the Declaration of Independence ), was a Presbyterian. Her mother was Jewish, the daughter of Max Steinhoff & Fanny Weiss, immigrants from Hungary; Hawn was raised in the Jewish religion, although she attended church & the family did celebrate Christmas.

Hawn began taking ballet & tap dance lessons at the age of three, & danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Stage Company production of Romeo & Juliet. By 1964, she ran & instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama.

In 1964, Hawn, who graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later, & appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.

1960s
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical " dumb blonde " personality. Her next role which brought her to international attention was as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, & deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini & painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl. This persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s & early 1970s: Butterflies are Free, There's a Girl in My Soup & Cactus Flower. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Cactus Flower (1969), which was her first film role & which co-starred Walter Matthau & Ingrid Bergman.

1970s-1990s
Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment into the 1970s & 1980s, appearing in many films (generally comedies), & moving into film production as well. She gathered great respect as a comedy actress & was nominated for an Academy Award as a leading actress for her role in 1980s Private Benjamin, which was one of a series of successful comedies that she had starred in, also including Foul Play, Best Friends & Bird on a Wire. Her career slowed down a bit until 1992, when she appeared opposite Bruce Willis & Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her. She also played an aging actress in the financially successful 1996 film, The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler & Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.

She made one foray into directing with the television film Hope (1997), starring Christine Lahti & Jena Malone.

2000s

Hawn in The Banger Sisters (2002).In 2000 Hawn co-starred with Warren Beatty & Diane Keaton once again in Town & Country, a critical & financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice & grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. As of 2006, her last film appearance was in the 2002 film The Banger Sisters.

In 2005, Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published. Hawn claims that the book is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir & record of what she has learned in her life so far.

Hawn announced in an interview with AARP's magazine that her next film project would be called Ashes to Ashes & co-star her partner Kurt Russell. The film is about a New York widow who loses her late husband's ashes in India.

Personal life

Relationships & family
Hawn was married to Gus Trikonis from 1969 to 1976. She married Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers, in 1976; the two divorced in 1980 & have two children, Oliver (born 1976) & Kate Hudson (born 1979), both of whom are now noted actors.

Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1982, when the two reconnected on the set of Swing Shift (they previously met while filming 1968's The One & Only, Genuine, Original Family Band). The couple have a son together, Wyatt Russell, who lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, learning & playing hockey. Wyatt is currently a goalie with the Brampton Capitals of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. He starts college in 2007 & will be playing for the CHA Champion University of Alabama in Huntsville Chargers. She also is stepmother to Kurt Russell's son Boston. Hawn became a grandmother on January 7, 2004, when her daughter, Kate Hudson, gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson.

Religion
Hawn became involved in Eastern philosophy in 1972. She is a practicing Buddhist & has raised her children in both Buddhist & Jewish traditions. Even though she might have converted to Buddhism, she has said in an interview that she never had to forsake her Jewish heritage to embrace Buddhism. She considers herself both Jewish & Buddhist & has stated on the Larry King Show that she is not more Jewish or more Buddhist. Hawn travels to India annually, & has visited Israel, stating that she felt an identification with its people.

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
2002 The Banger Sisters Suzette
2001 Town & Country Mona Miller
1999 The Out-of-Towners Nancy Clark
1996 Everyone Says I Love You Steffi Dandridge
The First Wives Club Elise Elliot
1992 Death Becomes Her Helen Sharp
HouseSitter Gwen Phillips
CrissCross Tracy Cross
1991 Deceived Adrienne Saunders
1990 Bird on a Wire Marianne Graves
1987 Overboard Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt
1986 Wildcats Molly McGrath
1984 Protocol Sunny Davis
Swing Shift Kay Walsh
1982 Best Friends Paula McCullen
1980 Seems Like Old Times Glenda Gardenia Parks
Private Benjamin Pvt. Judy Benjamin/Goodman Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1979 Lovers & Liars Anita
1978 Foul Play Gloria Mundy
1976 The Duchess & the Dirtwater Fox Amanda Quaid/Duchess Swansbury
1975 Shampoo Jill
1974 The Girl from Petrovka Oktyabrina
The Sugarland Express Lou Jean Poplin
1972 Butterflies Are Free Jill Tanner
1971 $ Dawn Divine aka Dollars
1970 There's a Girl in My Soup Marion
1969 Cactus Flower Toni Simmons Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress Oscar
1968 The One & Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Giggly Girl

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