American University, Washington, DC (majored in Drama).
Nationality :
American
Profession :
Actor, Producer
Claim to Fame :
As Judy Benjamin in Private Benjamin (1980).
Sometimes Called :
Goldie Jeanne Hawn, Goldy Jeanne Hawn
Good friends with Sally Field.
Spent much of her time between 1992 and 1994 looking after her mother, who died in 1994.
Three children: Oliver Hudson (b. 1976), Kate Hudson (b. 1979) from her second marriage to Bill Hudson; Wyatt Russell (b. 1986) from relationship with Kurt Russell.
Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#71). [1995]
She and longtime companion Kurt Russell both appeared in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), Swing Shift (1984), and Overboard (1987).
Partner of Kurt Russell. [1983 - present]
Her father, Edward Rutledge Studlendgehawn, was a descendant of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Gave commencement address at Graduation for the Class of 2002 at her alma mater, American University.
Started Cosmic Entertainment with Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson in 2003.
Grandmother of Ryder Russell Robinson, the first child of her daughter Kate Hudson and musician Chris Robinson.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 209-210. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
In November 1984, at age 39, she posed for the cover of Playboy.
Her first entertainment gig was performing in "The Nutcracker" at age 11. She earned $1.50.
Awarded honorary degree from Loyola Marymount University after delivering 2004 Commencement address there.
Is an accomplished ballet dancer.
A goggle-eyed, ditzy blonde, Goldie Hawn's looks alone make her a natural for the kind of breathless comedy in which she originally made her name. Though Goldie Hawn has built a lucrative career with her screen persona of a vivacious, giggly, and befuddled naif, Goldie Hawn's onscreen antics conceal her real-life level-headedness: Beneath the wide expanse of her blue eyes lies a shrewd, intelligent, and multi-talented woman.
Born the daughter of a musician in Washington, D.C., Goldie Hawn grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in suburban Maryland. At the age of three, Goldie Hawn took her first dance lesson, and by the age of 17, Goldie Hawn was managing a dance studio while studying drama at American University. In 1964, she danced professionally at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, and then began appearing in chorus lines in such musicals as Kiss Me Kate, Guys and Dolls, and The Boyfriend. Goldie Hawn eventually moved to California, where her first break came when an agent saw her dancing on the Andy Griffith Show and cast her in Good Morning World, a short-lived comedy series. From there she was cast as a dancer in an innovative comedy-variety show hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It was on Laugh-In (1968-1970) that Hawn became popular. Originally a dancer on the show, Goldie Hawn's bikini-clad body painted with funny slogans and designs, she was given a few lines and proved herself a talented performer in a winning, air-headed way.
Goldie Hawn made her first foray into feature films as a dancer in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). Her acting debut came a year later playing Walter Matthau's ditzy, bohemian mistress in Cactus Flower (1969); she won an Oscar for her role, making it an inarguably auspicious debut. Later that year Goldie Hawn appeared opposite Peter Sellers in There's a Girl in My Soup. These first two films and the subsequent Dollars (1971) utilized Goldie Hawn's "blonde" persona, but in 1972, she hinted that she concealed more than a talent for perkiness and comedy when she played a young woman who helps her blind lover deal with his past in Butterflies Are Free. Goldie Hawn showed even more depth as a wife who springs her husband from jail in hopes of keeping her child in Sugarland Express, Steven Spielberg's 1973 feature-film directorial debut. Two years later, Goldie Hawn starred as Warren Beatty's girlfriend in Shampoo, further exhibiting her capacity as both a comedic and dramatic actress.
Subsequently, Goldie Hawn continued to work steadily throughout the '80s and '90s, appearing in films of widely varying quality. Some highlights include the successful Private Benjamin (1980), for which Goldie Hawn earned her second Best Actress Oscar nomination, Seems Like Old Times (1982), and The First Wives Club (1996), in which Goldie Hawn co-starred with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler. Hawn has two children by her second husband, comedian Bill Hudson, and one by her companion since 1986, actor Kurt Russell. She and Russell met on the set of Swing Shift (1984) and have since starred together in such films as Overboard (1987). Following daughter Kate Hudson's success in the wake of Almost Famous (2000), Goldie Hawn hit the big screen again in the notorious box-office bomb Town and Country (2001). Though that film did little to re-ignite her appeal as a box office draw, her turn as a free spirited former groupie in the following year's The Banger Sisters drew favorable reviews from critics and audiences and proved a solid indicator that the talented comic actress still had what it takes to bring in the laughs.
