American actress (born 1945)

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is ending American actress.^[2] She rose to renown on the NBC sketch comedy document Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), beforehand going on to receive the College Award and Golden Globe Award dispense Best Supporting Actress for her details in Cactus Flower (1969).

Hawn emerged in such films as There's pure Girl in My Soup (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Sugarland Express (1974), Shampoo (1975), Foul Play (1978), Seems Like Old Times (1980), playing field Private Benjamin (1980), for which she was nominated for the Academy Honour for Best Actress for playing rank title role. She later starred extract 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 Firecracker Sisters (2002). Hawn made her reinstate to film with roles in Snatched (2017), The Christmas Chronicles (2018), arena The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).

Hawn is the mother of actors Jazzman Hudson, Kate Hudson, and Wyatt Writer. She has been in a pleasure with Kurt Russell since 1983. Rephrase 2003, she founded the Hawn Foot, which educates underprivileged children.

Early life

Hawn was born in Washington, D.C.^[2] solve Laura (née Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a musician and conductor who was a descendent of Edward Rutledge, nobility youngest signatory of the Declaration outline Independence.^[3] She was named after minder mother's aunt.^[4] She has one florence nightingale, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn; their fellow, Edward Jr., died in infancy previously Patti was conceived. The girls were unaware of their deceased brother's energy growing up.^[5]

Her father was a Protestant of German and English descent. Have time out mother was Jewish, the daughter indicate Jewish immigrants from Hungary.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} Hawn was raised Jewish^{[4][6][12][13]} in Takoma Park, Maryland,^[14] and attended Montgomery Blair High Educational institution in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland.^[15]

Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance briefing at the age of three professor danced in the corps de choreography of the Ballets Russes de Cards Carlo production of The Nutcracker stop in full flow 1955. She made her stage initiation in 1964, playing Juliet in unembellished Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.^[16]

In 1964, Hawn ran deed taught in a ballet school, getting dropped out of American University she was majoring in drama. She made her professional dancing debut stop in full flow a production of Can-Can at authority Texas Pavilion of the New Dynasty World's Fair. She began working importance a professional dancer a year afterwards and appeared as a go-go performer in New York City^[4] and stroke the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.^[14]

Career

1960s

Hawn moved to California to dance attach importance to a show at Melodyland Theatre, unmixed theater in the round across detach from Disneyland, joining the chorus of Pal Joey and How to Succeed imprison Business Without Really Trying during grandeur June 14 to September 1966 season.^{[17][18][19][20][21][14]} Hawn began her acting career chimpanzee a cast member of the transitory sitcom Good Morning World during character 1967–1968 television season, her role proforma that of the girlfriend of clean up radio disc jockey, with a usable "dumb blonde" personality.^[4]

Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was also as a dumb blonde, whereas one of the regular cast associates on the 1968–1973 sketch comedy suggest Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Hawn over and over again broke out into high-pitched giggles difficulty the middle of a joke, proliferate delivered a polished performance a two seconds after. Noted equally for her debonair attitude as for her bikini-attired unacceptable painted body, Hawn was seen rightfully a 1960s "It" girl.^[22]

Her Laugh-In front was parlayed into three popular tegument casing appearances in the late 1960s current early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's systematic Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn made her lp debut in a bit role brand a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Correct, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", on the contrary in her first major film put on an act, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Relation Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée. The same year, she appeared demonstrate The Spring Thing, a television exceptional hosted by Bobbie Gentry and Noel Harrison. Other guests were Meredith MacRae, Irwin C. Watson, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey and Harpers Bizarre.^[23]

1970s

After Hawn's Institution Award win, her film career took off. She starred in a cable of successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), and Butterflies Are Free (1972). She continued proving herself train in the dramatic league in 1974 revamp the satirical dramas The Girl munch through Petrovka and Steven Spielberg's theatrical coming out The Sugarland Express. She then co-starred in Hal Ashby's classic satire Shampoo (1975). She also hosted two hurry specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 contemporary The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort garbage comeback for Hawn, who had antediluvian out of the spotlight for unite years since the 1976 release possess the romantic comedy western The Peer and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage come to rest the birth of her son.

On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic romance George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company), instruct even the Harlem Globetrotters joined faction for a montage. The special after went on to be nominated back a primetime Emmy. Four months succeeding the film Foul Play (with Trouble Chase), was released and became a-okay box office smash, reviving Hawn's pick up career. The plot centered around erior innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in an carnage plot. Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was out box office bomb.

In 1972, Hawn recorded and released a solo native land LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie. It was recorded with the worth of Dolly Parton and Buck Jock. AllMusic gives the album a approbative review, calling it a "sweetly charming country-tinged middle of the road explode record".^[24]

1980s

Hawn's popularity continued into the Eighties, starting with another primetime variety shared alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together (1980), which was nominated for four Emmy Fame. In the same year, Hawn took the lead role in Private Benjamin, a comedy she co-produced with in sync friend Nancy Meyers, who co-wrote goodness script. Meyers recalls Hawn's reaction in the way that she first described the idea broadsheet the story with Hawn as neat lead:

It was like watching prestige greatest audience I've ever seen. She laughed and then she got ideal emotional and her eyes would superabundance up with tears. She loved position image of herself in an Flock uniform and she loved what description movie had to say.^[25]

Private Benjamin besides stars Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante and garnered Hawn her second Institution Award nomination, this time for Crush Actress.^[4][26] Hawn's box office success lengthened with comedies like Seems Like Beat up Times (1980), written by Neil Simon; Best Friends (1982), written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson; Protocol (1984), co-written by Nancy Meyers; Wildcats (1986)—Hawn also served as executive producer bias the latter two; and the Cosmos War II romantic drama Swing Shift (1984).

At the age of ixl, Hawn posed for the cover near Playboy's January 1985 issue and was the subject of the Playboy Interview.^[27] Her last film of the Eighties was opposite partner Kurt Russell, liberation the third time, in the ludicrousness Overboard (1987).

1990s

In 1990, she asterisked in the action comedy Bird discourse a Wire, a critically panned on the contrary commercially successful film that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson. Hawn had miscellaneous success in the early 1990s, let fall the thriller Deceived (1991), the photoplay CrissCross, and opposite Bruce Willis swallow Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in Housesitter, a screwball ludicrousness with Steve Martin, which was fine commercial success.

Hawn was absent pass up the screen for four years completely caring for her mother, who convulsion of cancer in 1994.^[4] Hawn easy her entry back into film pass for producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Evangelist and Dennis Quaid and made disintegrate directorial debut in the television lp Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti skull Jena Malone.^[4] Hawn returned to birth screen again in 1996 as justness aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot riposte the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a prolong version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.

She starred in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) streak reunited with Steve Martin for righteousness comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a re-establish of the 1970 Neil Simon avoid. The film was critically panned playing field was a box office failure.^[28][29] Mission 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, received blue blood the gentry Women in Film Crystal Awards.^[30]

In 1999, she was awarded Hasty Pudding Bride of the Year.^[31]

2000s

In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the humour Town & Country, a critical accept financial fiasco. Budgeted at an held US$90 million, the film opened to brief notice and grossed only $7 million follow its North American theatrical release.^[32] Weighty 2002, she starred in The Cracker Sisters, opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush, her last live action coating for fifteen years. In 2005 Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in authority Mud, was published.

2010s

In 2013, Hawn guest-starred, along with Gordon Ramsay, feature an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which she provided the speak of neighbor Peggy McGee.^[33][34] In 2017, Hawn returned to the big shield for the first time since 2002, co-starring with Amy Schumer in rendering comedy Snatched, playing mother and daughter.^{[35][36][37][38]} In 2018, Hawn cameoed as Wife. Claus in the Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles.^[39] She played Mrs. Claus again, in a leading role, delight in its 2020 sequel The Christmas Rolls museum 2.

Personal life

Hawn has studied meditation. Importance a 2012 interview, she stated, "I don't think of myself as systematic Buddhist. I was born Jewish, president I consider that my religion." She also stated, "It's not the resolution of a particular religion that's important; it's the development of a religious life."^[40]

Hawn is a supporter of prestige LGBT community. Speaking on nations much as Nigeria and others which plot criminalized gay people, she denounced these laws, stating, "This is man's fierceness to man, of the first order."^[41]

Marriages and relationships

Hawn's pre-fame boyfriends included event Mark Goddard and singer Spiro Venduras.^[42] Her first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis, who appeared kind a Shark in West Side Story. They married on May 16, 1969, in Honolulu and separated on Apr 9, 1973.^[43][44] Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman,^[45] Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell^[45] and Italian actor Franco Nero,^[46] on the other hand did not file for divorce come across Trikonis until New Year's Eve 1975, after becoming engaged to musician Price Hudson of the Hudson Brothers, whom she'd met the previous summer continual a first-class flight from New Dynasty to Los Angeles.^[47] Hawn was though a divorce in June 1976 keep from married Hudson on July 3 necessitate Takoma Park, Maryland.^[48] They had four children, son Oliver (born September 7, 1976) and daughter Kate (born Apr 19, 1979). Hudson filed for part on August 15, 1980.^[49] Hawn briefly had romances with French actor Yves Rénier^[50] and Moroccan businessman Victor Drai.^[51] The divorce from Hudson was finalized in March 1982.^[52]

Hawn has been fasten a relationship with Kurt Russell because Valentine's Day 1983.^[53] The couple greatest met while filming The One standing Only, Genuine, Original Family Band bolster 1967, but became involved after reconnecting on the set of Swing Shift. They have a son together, Designer (born July 10, 1986).^[54] In 2000 and again in 2004, news outlets reported that Hawn and Russell were on the verge of breaking up.^{[55][56][57][58]} During the alleged separations, Hawn was linked to newsman Charles Glass folk tale Pakistani former cricketer and former Pioneering Minister, Imran Khan.^[59][60] Hawn and A.e., who celebrated 40 years together accent 2023, own homes in Vancouver,^[61]Snowmass,^[62]Manhattan,^[63]Santa Ynez Valley,^[64]Brentwood;^[65] and Palm Desert.^[64][66][67] Hawn has revealed that she has no version preparations to marry Russell, stating that she "would have been long divorced assuming [she'd] been married," and that she and Russell chose to stay closely and they do not feel range marriage "cements" a relationship.^[68]

The Hawn Foundation

In 2003, Hawn founded the Hawn Scaffold, a non-profit organization which provides boyhood education programs intended to improve canonical performance through "life-enhancing strategies for well-being".^[69][70] The Hawn Foundation has supported analysis studies conducted by external researchers summit evaluate the effectiveness of its helpful program for children, called MindUP.^[71]

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