Goldie Hawn is an American film actress. She gained fame through a sketch comedy show and then she went on to becoma an Academy Award winning actress.
- Her full name is Goldie Jeanne Hawn
- She was born on November 21, 1945
- She is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer
- She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
- She went on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969)
- Hawn maintained bankable star status for more than three decades
- She made appearances in such films as There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Sugarland Express (1974), Shampoo (1975), Foul Play (1978), Seems Like Old Times (1980), and Private Benjamin (1980)
- For the film Private Benjamin she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role
- She later starred in Overboard (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Housesitter (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), The Out-of-Towners (1999) and The Banger Sisters (2002)
- Hawn is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson, and Wyatt Russell
- She has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983
- In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which educates underprivileged children
- Hawn was born in Washington, D.C.
- She is the daughter of Laura, a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington
- She was named after her mother’s aunt
- She has one sister, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn
- Their brother, Edward Jr. died as an infant shortly before Patti was conceived
- Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent
- Her mother was Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Hungary
- Hawn was raised Jewish
- She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland
- She attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland
- Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955
- She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet
- By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama
- In 1964, Hawn 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
- She appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey
- Hawn moved to California to dance in a show at Melodyland Theatre, a theater in the round across from Disneyland
- She joined the chorus of Pal Joey and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying during the June 14 to September 1966 season
- Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived sitcom Good Morning World
- In 2017, Hawn returned to the big screen for the first time since 2002, co-starring with Amy Schumer in the comedy Snatched, playing mother and daughter
- In 2018, Hawn cameoed as Mrs. Claus in the Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles
- She will reprise the role in the film’s sequel, set for 2020
- Hawn has studied meditation
- In a 2012 interview, she stated, “I don’t think of myself as a Buddhist. I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion”
- She also stated, “It’s not the idea of a particular religion that’s important; it’s the development of a spiritual life”
- Hawn is a supporter of the LGBT community
- Speaking on nations such as Nigeria and others which have criminalized gay people, she denounced these laws, stating, “This is man’s inhumanity to man, of the first order”
- Hawn’s pre-fame boyfriends included actor Mark Goddard and crooner Spiro Venduras
- Her first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis, who appeared as a Shark in West Side Story and with whom she shares the same birthday
- They married on May 16, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii
- They were separated on April 9, 1973
- Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman, Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell and Italian actor Franco Nero
- She had not file for divorce from Trikonis until New Year’s Eve 1975
- That was after she was engaged to musician Bill Hudson of the Hudson Brothers
- They met the previous summer on a first-class flight from New York to Los Angeles
- Hawn was granted a divorce in June 1976
- She married Hudson on July 3, 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland
- They had two children, son Oliver (born September 7, 1976) and daughter Kate (born April 19, 1979)
- Hudson filed for divorce on August 15, 1980
- Hawn’s next romances were with French actor Yves Rénier, television star Tom Selleck and Moroccan businessman Victor Drai
- The divorce from Hudson was finalized in March 1982
- Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since Valentine’s Day 1983
- The couple first met while filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966
- They became involved after re-connecting on the set of Swing Shift
- They have a son, Wyatt (born July 10, 1986)
- Hawn is also the de facto stepmother of Russell and Season Hubley’s son Boston
- In 2000 and again in 2004, news outlets reported that Hawn and Russell were on the verge of breaking up
- During the alleged separations, Hawn was linked to newsman Charles Glass and Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Kha
- Hawn and Russell celebrated 35 years together in 2018
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