Goldie Jeanne Hawn

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Goldie Hawn (21 November 1945 - )

Hawn was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, to jewelry wholesaler Laura Steinhoff (who died in 1994) and concert violinist Edward Rutledge Hawn. Her sister is Patricia Hawn, a film publicist.

At the age of 3, she took dance lessons. At 10, she made her professional debut, earning $1.50 for dancing on stage in The Nutcracker. In 1963 Hawn graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, after which she studied drama at American University but dropped out.

At 19, she danced in the can-can line at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, after which she was in chorus lines for stage productions of Kiss Me Kate and Guys and Dolls. Upon moving to California, Hawn landed a recurring role on a short-lived 1967-68 sitcom, Good Morning, World, Carl Reiner's follow-up to The Dick Van Dyke Show, which lasted only one season. Hawn's performance as a ditzy blonde landed her a job as the blonde on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Between those TV shows, Hawn made her motion picture debut in Disney's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. Between her first and second seasons on Laugh-In, she took a supporting role as Walter Matthau's mistress in Cactus Flower, which won her an Oscar. The next few noteworthy Hawn films were Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express, Shampoo, Foul Play, and Private Benjamin. Then came Swing Shift, co-starring Kurt Russell. The two stars moved in together. They have never married, but Russell helped raise Hawn's kids by musician Bill Hudson (born 17 October 1949, married 1976, divorced 1980), Oliver and Kate Hudson.

Hawn worked steadily throughout the 1980s and 90s, appearing in such films as Seems Like Old Times, Bird on a Wire, House Sitter, and The First Wives Club. Others were Death Becomes Her, Town & Country, and The Banger Sisters.

In 1969 she married film director Gus Trikonis (divorced in 1973) and in 1973 married actor Brune Wintzell (divorced in 1980).

Her children are actor Oliver Hudson (born 7 September 1976) and actor Kate Hudson (born 19 April 1979), whose biological father was musician Bill Hudson. From 1983 to 2004, she co-habited with Kurt Russell and they had a son in 1986, Wyatt Russell.

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR

The Banger Sisters (8-Sep-2002)

America: A Tribute to Heroes (21-Sep-2001) Herself

Town & Country (27-Apr-2001)

The Out-of-Towners (02-Apr-1999)

Everyone Says I Love You (6-Dec-1996)

The First Wives Club (20-Sep-1996)

Death Becomes Her (31-Jul-1992)

HouseSitter (12-Jun-1992)

CrissCross (8-May-1992)

Deceived (27-Sep-1991)

Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991) Herself

Bird on a Wire (18-May-1990)

Overboard (16-Dec-1987)

Wildcats (14-Feb-1986)

Protocol (21-Dec-1984)

Swing Shift (13-Apr-1984)

Best Friends (17-Dec-1982)

Seems Like Old Times (19-Dec-1980)

Private Benjamin (10-Oct-1980)

Foul Play (14-Jul-1978)

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1-Apr-1976)

Shampoo (11-Feb-1975)

The Sugarland Express (31-Mar-1974)

Butterflies Are Free (6-Jul-1972)

Dollars (15-Dec-1971)

There's a Girl in My Soup (15-Dec-1970)

Cactus Flower (16-Dec-1969)

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (21-Mar-1968)

Hawn in 2005 wrote a memoir, Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud.

In 2010, an activist Buddhist although raised as a Jew, Hawn was quoted by the Associated Press:

• We need to rethink our whole approach to classroom education. A peaceful, happy child is the first step toward a peaceful world.

She has raised her children as Jewish Buddhist, stating on a Larry King Show that she is neither more Jewish nor more Buddhist.