Goldie Hawn trivia | 61 facts about the famous actress

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.

1. Her full name is Goldie Jeanne Hawn
2. She was born on November 21, 1945
3. She is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer
4. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
5. She went on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969)
6. Hawn maintained bankable star status for more than three decades
7. 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)
8. For the film Private Benjamin she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role
9. 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)
10. Hawn is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson, and Wyatt Russell
11. She has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983
12. In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which educates underprivileged children
13. Hawn was born in Washington, D.C.
14. 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
15. She was named after her mother’s aunt
16. She has one sister, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn
17. Their brother, Edward Jr. died as an infant shortly before Patti was conceived
18. Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent
19. Her mother was Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Hungary
20. Hawn was raised Jewish
21. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland
22. She attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland
23. 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
24. She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet
25. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama
26. 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
27. She began working as a professional dancer a year later
28. She appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey
29. Hawn moved to California to dance in a show at Melodyland Theatre, a theater in the round across from Disneyland
30. She joined the chorus of Pal Joey and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying during the June 14 to September 1966 season
31. Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived sitcom Good Morning World
32. 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
33. In 2018, Hawn cameoed as Mrs. Claus in the Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles
34. She will reprise the role in the film’s sequel, set for 2020
35. Hawn has studied meditation
36. 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”
37. She also stated, “It’s not the idea of a particular religion that’s important; it’s the development of a spiritual life”
38. Hawn is a supporter of the LGBT community
39. 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”
40. Hawn’s pre-fame boyfriends included actor Mark Goddard and crooner Spiro Venduras
41. 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
42. They married on May 16, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii
43. They were separated on April 9, 1973
44. Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman, Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell and Italian actor Franco Nero
45. She had not file for divorce from Trikonis until New Year’s Eve 1975
46. That was after she was engaged to musician Bill Hudson of the Hudson Brothers
47. They met the previous summer on a first-class flight from New York to Los Angeles
48. Hawn was granted a divorce in June 1976
49. She married Hudson on July 3, 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland
50. They had two children, son Oliver (born September 7, 1976) and daughter Kate (born April 19, 1979)
51. Hudson filed for divorce on August 15, 1980
52. Hawn’s next romances were with French actor Yves Rénier, television star Tom Selleck and Moroccan businessman Victor Drai
53. The divorce from Hudson was finalized in March 1982
54. Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since Valentine’s Day 1983
55. The couple first met while filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966
56. They became involved after re-connecting on the set of Swing Shift
57. They have a son, Wyatt (born July 10, 1986)
58. Hawn is also the de facto stepmother of Russell and Season Hubley’s son Boston
59. In 2000 and again in 2004, news outlets reported that Hawn and Russell were on the verge of breaking up
60. During the alleged separations, Hawn was linked to newsman Charles Glass and Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Kha
61. Hawn and Russell celebrated 35 years together in 2018