41 Facts About Goldie Hawn

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Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born on November 21,1945 and is an American actress, dancer, producer, and singer.

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Goldie Hawn later starred in Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, Housesitter, The First Wives Club, The Out-of-Towners, and The Banger Sisters.

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Goldie Hawn made her return to film with roles in Snatched, The Christmas Chronicles, and The Christmas Chronicles 2.

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Goldie Hawn is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell, and has been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since 1983.

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Goldie Hawn has one sister, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn; their brother, Edward Jr.

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Goldie Hawn's father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent.

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Goldie Hawn's mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary Hawn was raised Jewish in Takoma Park, Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Goldie 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.

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Goldie Hawn made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

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In 1964, Goldie Hawn ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama.

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Goldie Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair.

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Goldie Hawn began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.

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Goldie Hawn moved to California to dance in a show at Melodyland Theatre, a theater in the round across from Disneyland, joining the chorus of Pal Joey and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying during the June 14 to September 1966 season.

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Goldie Hawn often broke out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, then delivered a polished performance a moment after.

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Goldie Hawn starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup, $, and Butterflies Are Free.

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Goldie Hawn continued proving herself in the dramatic league in 1974 with the satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and Steven Spielberg's theatrical debut The Sugarland Express.

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Goldie Hawn then co-starred in Hal Ashby's classic satire Shampoo.

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Goldie Hawn hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978.

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Goldie Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars, was a box office bomb.

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In 1972, Hawn recorded and released a solo country LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie.

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Goldie Hawn laughed and then she got real emotional and her eyes would fill up with tears.

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Goldie Hawn loved the image of herself in an Army uniform and she loved what the movie had to say.

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At the age of thirty-nine, Goldie Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy January 1985 issue and was the subject of the Playboy Interview.

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Goldie Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived, the drama CrissCross, and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her.

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Goldie Hawn was absent from the screen for four years while caring for her mother, who died of cancer in 1994.

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Goldie Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid and made her directorial debut in the television film Hope starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.

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Goldie Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in 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.

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Goldie Hawn performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.

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Goldie Hawn starred in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You and reunited with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners, a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit.

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In 2013, Goldie Hawn guest-starred, along with Gordon Ramsay, in an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which she provided the voice of neighbor Peggy McGee.

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In 2017, Goldie 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.

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In 2018, Goldie Hawn cameoed as Mrs Claus in the Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles.

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Goldie Hawn played Mrs Claus again, in a leading role, in its 2020 sequel The Christmas Chronicles 2.

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Goldie Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman, Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell and Italian actor Franco Nero, but did not file for divorce from Trikonis until New Year's Eve 1975, after becoming engaged to musician Bill Hudson of the Hudson Brothers, whom she'd met the previous summer on a first-class flight from New York to Los Angeles.

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Goldie Hawn was granted a divorce in June 1976 and married Hudson on July 3,1976, in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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Goldie Hawn subsequently had a romance with French actor Yves Renier.

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Goldie Hawn has been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since Valentine's Day 1983.

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Goldie Hawn is a stepmother to Boston Russell, Kurt's son from his first marriage.

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Goldie Hawn has revealed that she has no plans to marry Russell, stating that she "would have been long divorced if [she'd] been married," and that she and Russell chose to stay together and they do not feel that marriage "cements" a relationship.

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In 2003, Goldie Hawn founded the Goldie Hawn Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides youth education programs intended to improve academic performance through "life-enhancing strategies for well-being".

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The Goldie Hawn Foundation has supported research studies conducted by external researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of its educational program for children, called MindUP.