Goldie Hawn
| Goldie Hawn | |
|---|---|
 Hawn in 1978 | |
| Born |
Goldie Jeanne Hawn November 21, 1945 Washington, D.C., US |
| Occupation | Actress, producer, director, singer |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Partner(s) | Kurt Russell (1983–present) |
| Children | |
| Relatives | Erinn Bartlett (daughter-in-law) |
| Awards |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, director, producer, and occasional singer,[1] who rose to fame on television's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–70). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1969 film, Cactus Flower, maintaining bankable star status for more than three decades thereafter. She is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell, and has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983. She founded The Hawn Foundation in 2003.
Hawn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the title role in the 1980 film Private Benjamin. Other films include: 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), Best Friends (1982), Overboard (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Housesitter (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and The Banger Sisters (2002). She is set to star in her first film for 15 years with a role in Mother/Daughter (2017).
Early life
Hawn was born in Washington, D.C.,[1] the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff; November 27, 1913 – November 27, 1993), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn[2][3] (September 28, 1908 – June 7, 1982), a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt.[4]
Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent; her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary,[5][6] and Hawn was raised Jewish.[4][5][7][8] Hawn has often been said to descend from Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence;[9] but genealogical research shows that he was not Hawn's ancestor (the two may be distantly related).[10]
Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama.
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. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.[4]
Career
1960s
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967–68 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality.[4]
Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968–1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn was seen as something of a 1960s "It" girl.
Her Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée.
1970s
After Hawn's Academy Award win, her film career took off. She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), and Butterflies Are Free (1972). She continued proving herself in the dramatic league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express, and Shampoo in 1975. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort of comeback for Hawn, who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son.
On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. Four months later the film Foul Play (with Chevy Chase), was released and became a box office smash, reviving Hawn's film career. The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in an assassination plot.
Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was a box office bomb. In 1972 Hawn recorded and released a solo country LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie. It was recorded with the help of Dolly Parton and Buck Owens. AllMusic gives the album a favorable review, calling it a "sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record".[11]
1980s
Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with another primetime variety special alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together (1980), which was nominated for four Emmy Awards. In the same year, Hawn took the lead role in Private Benjamin, a comedy she produced. Private Benjamin, which also stars Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante, garnered Hawn her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.[4] Hawn's box office success continued with comedies like Seems Like Old Times (1980), Protocol (1984), and Wildcats (1986) — Hawn also served as executive producer on the latter two — and dramas like Best Friends (1982) and Swing Shift (1984).
At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue. Hawn posed in a giant martini glass wearing only a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie, fishnet stockings and a pair of red stilettos. Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard (1987).
1990s
Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.
Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived (1991), the drama CrissCross and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in Housesitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success. Hawn was absent from the screen again for four years while caring for her mother who died of cancer in 1994.[4] Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her directorial debut in the television film Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.[4]
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. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life. She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office.[12][13] In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.[14]
In 1999, she was awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year.[15]
2000s
In 2001 Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. In 2002, she starred in The Banger Sisters, opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush, her last live action film to date.
In 2005 Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published.
2010s
In 2013, Hawn guest starred, along with Gordon Ramsay, in an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which she provided the voice of neighbor Peggy McGee.[16][17]
Hawn will be returning to big screen for the first time since 2002, in which she will portray the mother of Amy Schumer's character in the upcoming comedy Mother/Daughter.[18][19][20][21]
Personal life
Hawn has studied meditation. 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." She also stated, "It's not the idea of a particular religion that's important; it's the development of a spiritual life."[22]
Hawn is a supporter of the LGBT community. Speaking on nations such as Nigeria and others which have criminalized homosexuals, she denounced these laws, stating, "This is man's inhumanity to man, of the first order."[23]
Relationships and family
Hawn's first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis, who appeared as a Shark in West Side Story; his sister Gina played Graziella, Riff's girlfriend. Hawn and Trikonis married on May 16, 1969, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and separated on April 9, 1973.[24][25] Hawn then dated stuntman Ted Grossman and Swedish actor Bruno Wintzell,[26] 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 met the previous summer on a first-class flight from New York to L.A.[27] Hawn was granted divorce in June 1976 and married Hudson on July 3, 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland.[28] They had two children, actor Oliver and actress Kate. Hudson filed for divorce on August 15, 1980.[29] The divorce from Hudson was finalized in March 1982.
Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since early 1983.[30] The couple first met while filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), but became involved after meeting on the set of Swing Shift. They have a son, Wyatt (born July 10, 1986).[31] They also own a home in Palm Desert, California.[32] Hawn is also the de-facto stepmother of Kurt Russell's son Boston.
The Hawn Foundation
In 2003 Hawn founded the Hawn Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides youth education programs intended to improve academic performance through "life-enhancing strategies for well-being".[33][34] The Hawn Foundation has supported research studies conducted by external researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of its educational program for children, called MindUP.[35]
Filmography
- Film
- Television
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Morning, World | |
Sandy Kramer | Season 1 - 20 episodes |
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | |
Herself (regular performer) | Seasons 1–3 - 64 episodes |
| Space Ghost Coast to Coast | |
Herself (voice) | Season 4, Episode 15 - "Pavement" |
| Phineas and Ferb | |
Peggy McGee (voice) | Season 4, Episode 23 - "Thanks But No Thanks" |
- Additional credits
- Private Benjamin (1980) (additionally served as executive producer)
- Protocol (1984) (additionally served as executive producer)
- Wildcats (1986) (additionally served as executive producer)
- My Blue Heaven (1990) (executive producer)
- Something to Talk About (1995) (executive producer)
- Hope (1997 TV movie) (director and executive producer)
- When Billie Beat Bobby (2001 TV movie) (executive producer)
- The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) (executive producer)
- Hot Flash Havoc (2016 documentary) (narrator)
Discography
Albums
- 1972, Goldie, Reprise Records: MS 2061
Singles
- 1972, "Pitta Patta", Reprise Records: REP 1126 (directed by Van Dyke Parks)
- 1997, "You Don't Own Me", Columbia Records: XPCD842 (with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton)
Awards and nominations
References
- 1 2 "Goldie Hawn Biography: Actress (1945–)". Biography.com (FYI / A&E Networks). Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/10/obituaries/edward-rutledge-hawn-73-leader-of-godfrey-orchestra.html
- ↑ "Goldie Hawn Biography (1945-)". FilmReference.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stated in Hawn interview on Inside the Actors Studio, 2008
- 1 2 Hawn, Goldie (March 6, 2012). Woman's Hour. BBC Radio. Event occurs at 10:17. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
I'm Jewish....I've studied Buddhism. I've studied Christian faith. I've studied Sufi. I am a great believer in looking at all religions, comparative religions...I am not a JewBu. I am actually born to Jewish mother and I was raised Jewish but my father was Presbyterian so I also went to Presbyterian church.
- ↑
- ↑ Hawn in Caldwell, Deborah (August 2005). "Goldie: Buddhist, Jew, Jesus Freak". Beliefnet.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Goldie Hawn A Wallflower?". CBS News. April 28, 2005.
- ↑ Brennan, Sandra. "Goldie Hawn". ("Factsheet" sidebar) AllMovie.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ McClure, Rhonda R. (2003). Finding Your Famous {& Infamous} Ancestors. United States: F+W Media. p. 8. ISBN 1558706542. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
...Goldie's Rutledge line traces back to a Joseph Rutledge, born about 1744 in Amelia County, Virginia, and died about 1814 in Greenville, South Carolina. He married Mary Paschal and is Goldie's third great-grandfather. Since Edward Rutledge was born in Charleston, South Carolina on 23 Nov. 1749, it is not possible for Joseph to be a descendant of Edward. It may still be possible for Goldie and Edward to be cousins, though it looks like the connection would have to be at least three more generations back.
- ↑ Mason, Stewart. "Goldie: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
- ↑ "The Out-Of-Towners (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- ↑ "The Out-of-Towners". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- ↑ "Past Recipients". wif.org. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
- ↑ "The Pudding & the Pot". Harvard Gazette. President and Fellows of Harvard College. February 18, 1999. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
- ↑ "Exclusive: Hawn Gets Animated For 'Phineas & Ferb'". Entertainment Tonight. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "Goldie Hawn to voice character on 'Phineas and Ferb'". United Press International. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Sands, Nicole (26 March 2016). "Goldie Hawn: Amy Schumer's mother-daughter comedy 'going to be a blast'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ McNary, Dave (8 February 2016). "Goldie Hawn in Talks to Play Amy Schumer's Mom in Fox Comedy". Variety. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Barsanti, Sam (8 February 2016). "Goldie Hawn might play Amy Schumer's mom in Mother/Daughter". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Gardner, Chris (1 April 2016). "Why Goldie Hawn Joined Amy Schumer in a Mother-Daughter Comedy". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Goldie Hawn happiness and meditation tips, Prevention
- ↑ Goldie Hawn: Acceptance Of Gay Rights is 'Inevitable'. HuffPost Live. Davos: Huffington Post. January 23, 2014. Event occurs at 2:34. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
- ↑ Lyse, John (July 27, 1969). Super Stardom Forecast for Goldie Hawn. Toledo Blade.
- ↑ "Goldie wants divorce". San Antonio Express. Associated Press. January 2, 1976.
- ↑ Beck, Marilyn (January 16, 1974). Hollywood Closeup. The Milwaukee Journal.
- ↑ Armstrong, Lois (May 17, 1976). She's Golden: With Motherhood and a New Husband on the Way, Life Is a Laugh-In for Goldie Hawn. People.
- ↑ Jerry Stack (July 9, 1976). "Celebrities Capture Crazy Benefit Tilt". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- ↑ "Goldie's Husband Wants Divorce". The Virgin Islands Daily News. Associated Press. September 4, 1980.
- ↑ "'A lasting relationship isn't about marriage': Glamorous Goldie Hawn, 69, reveals the secret to her 32-year romance with Kurt Russell as she poses for fun shoot". Daily Mail. 2 June 2015. Archived from the original on August 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell have son". The Milwaukee Journal. available at Google News. July 10, 1986. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
- ↑ Meeks, Eric G. (2012). Palm Springs Celebrity Homes: Little Tuscany, Racquet Club, Racquet Club Estates and Desert Park Estates Neighborhoods (Kindle). Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 452 (location number). ASIN B00A2PXD1G.
- ↑ About Us, The Hawn Foundation
- ↑
- ↑ Schonert-Reichl, K. A., & Lawlor, M. S. (2010). "The effects of a mindfulness-based education program on pre-and early adolescents’ well-being and social and emotional competence", Mindfulness, 1(3), 137-151.
- ↑ "THE 42ND ACADEMY AWARDS 1970". Oscars.org. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Goldie Hawn". Goldenglobes.com. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- ↑ "THE 53RD ACADEMY AWARDS 1981". Oscars.org. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
External links
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- Goldie Hawn at the Internet Movie Database
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- Goldie Hawn at discogs.com
- The Hawn Foundation
- Goldie Hawn interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, September 23, 2012
Videos
- "The Films of Goldie Hawn" on YouTube, movie clips
- "Hawn: From 'Cactus Flower' to 'Lotus'" USA Today (May 4, 2005)
- "Goldie Hawn A Wallflower?" .60 Minutes. CBS News (May 1, 2005)
- "Goldie Hawn's '10 Mindful Minutes' for Children". ABC News. September 9, 2011.