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Goldie Jean Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washinton D.C. to Laura Steinhoff (a jewelry shop/dance school owner) and Edward Rutledge Hawn (a band musician). She has a sister, Patricia, and a brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in the Jewish religion. Her mother was Jewish and the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. Her father was Presbyterian. At the age of three Goldie began taking ballet and tap dance lessons, and at the age of ten she danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of "The Nutcracker". At the age of 19 she ran and instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of college where she was majoring in drama. Before going into the film business she worked as a professional dancer.

She had her feature film debut in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), with a small role as a giggling dancer. Her first supporting role came in 1969, where she played opposite Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman in Cactus Flower (1969), a role which earned her an academy award for best supporting actress. After her academy award win her career took off and she followed with roles in successful comedies such as There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) and Shampoo (1975) and more dramatic roles in The Girl from Petrovka (1974) and The Sugarland Express (1974). In 1978, she starred alongside Chevy Chase in the box office hit Foul Play (1978). In 1980 she starred in another box office hit, Private Benjamin (1980), where she also served as producer. During the 1980s she starred in hit movies such as Protocol (1984), Wildcats (1986) and Swing Shift (1984). In 1987 she appeared with her partner Kurt Russell in the film Overboard (1987), which became both a critical and box office disappointment. Her career slowed down after that until 1990 when she starred alongside Mel Gibson in Bird on a Wire (1990). In 1992 she starred in the successful film, Death Becomes Her (1992) with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis, which was followed by another successful film HouseSitter (1992) which co-starred Steve Martin. In 1996 she played the role of an aging alcoholic actress in the comedy The First Wives Club (1996) with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, it became a critical and financial success. She also starred in the 'Woody Allen' film Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and The Out-of-Towners (1999) which reunited her with Steve Martin. In 2001 and 2002 she starred in Town & Country (2001) with Warren Beatty and The Banger Sisters (2002) with Susan Sarandon.

Goldie has been married twice. First to actor/director Gus Trikonis, from 1969 to 1974. In 1975 she married the musician Bill Hudson and became a mother for the first time in 1976, when she gave birth to their son Oliver Hudson. In 1979, she had her second child by Hudson, daughter Kate Hudson. The marriage ended in divorce in 1980. Since 1983, she has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell and they have a son together, Wyatt Russell (born 1986). Goldie is also a grandmother, her daughter Kate has a son named Ryder born January 7, 2004, and her son Oliver has a son named Wilder born August 23, 2007.

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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) 1 child.

Her father, Rut Hawn (aka Edward Rutledge Hawn), is descended from Edward Rutledge, the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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.

Measurements: 34A-23-35 (early starlet days), 34B-24-36 (at age 51), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Grandmother of Ryder Russell Robinson (child of her daughter Kate Hudson and musician Chris Robinson) and Wilder Brooks (child of her son Oliver Hudson and actress Erinn Bartlett).

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 209-210. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

In January 1985, 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.

Plays a former rock-star groupie in The Banger Sisters (2002). Her daughter, Kate Hudson, plays a young rock-star groupie in Almost Famous (2000).

She is a devout Buddhist and introduced His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, at the "Tribute to the Dalai Lama" concert at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre, in April 2004.

Her performance as Judy Benjamin in Private Benjamin (1980) is ranked #70 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Ex-sister-in-law of Gina Trikonis, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson.

Founder of the Bright Light Foundation for Children.

It is often incorrectly stated that she shortened her family name from Studlendgehawn to Hawn. According to census documents the surname of all of her direct ancestors up to and including her father is Hawn, Hahn, or Haun.

She describes herself as a Jew-Bu (Jewish Buddhist).

Considers her role as Lou Jean Poplin in The Sugarland Express (1974) to be her finest work on screen.

Personal Quotes

[in 1977] Monogamy is impossible these days for both sexes. I don't know anyone who's faithful or wants to be.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them . . . even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way . . . that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile--and we should run the world.

We can't hold on to our youth, but what you can hang on to is all the things we've been told a zillion times: you have to find the light in your life that you had when you were a little girl or little guy that made you happy.

Where Are They Now

(2005) Published her autobiography, "A Lotus Grows in the Mud".

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