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Goldie Hawn Facts
| Sign | Scorpio |
| Born |
Nov 21, 1945 Washington, DC |
| Age | 80 |
| Total Facts | 31 |
Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Classmates included Carl Bernstein, Ben Stein and Sylvester Stallone.
Awarded honorary degree from Loyola Marymount University after delivering 2004 Commencement address there.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 209-210. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#71). [1995]
Considers her role as Lou Jean Poplin in The Sugarland Express (1974) to be her finest work on screen.
Daughter of Rut Hawn and Laura Hawn.
Ex-sister-in-law of Gina Trikonis, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson.
Founder of the Bright Light Foundation for Children.
Gave commencement address at Graduation for the Class of 2002 at her alma mater, American University.
Goldie Hawn is the daughter of Laura (Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington.
Good friends with Sally Field.
Grandmother to three grandsons; Ryder Rusell Robinson, January 7, 2004, from daughter Kate Hudson and ex-son-in-law Chris Robinson. Wilder Brooks Hudson, August 23, 2007 and Bodhi Hawn Hudson, born March 19, 2010, from her son Oliver Hudson and daughter-in-law Erinn Bartlett.
Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
Hawn has two children from marriage with Bill Hudson, Oliver Hudson (born 1976) and Kate Hudson (born 1979), both of whom are actors.
Hawn's second husband was Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers, the two divorced in 1980.
Her daughter Kate Hudson was delivered one month prematurely via Caesarean section.
Her father, Rut Hawn (aka Edward Rutledge Hawn), is descended from Edward Rutledge, the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Her first entertainment gig was performing in "The Nutcracker" at age 11. She earned $1.50.
Her performance as Judy Benjamin in Private Benjamin (1980) is ranked #70 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
In January 1985, at age 39, she posed for the cover of Playboy.
Is an accomplished ballet dancer.
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.
Measurements: 34A-23-35 (early starlet days), 34B-24-36 (at age 51), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
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 and longtime companion Kurt Russell both appeared in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), Swing Shift (1984), and Overboard (1987).
She describes herself as a Jew-Bu (Jewish Buddhist).
She is a devout Buddhist and introduced His Holiness, the The Dalai Lama, at the "Tribute to the Dalai Lama" concert at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre, in April 2004.
Spent much of her time between 1992 and 1994 looking after her mother, who died in 1994.
Started Cosmic Entertainment with Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson in 2003.
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.
Through her father, Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence.