Goldie Hawn
Academy Award-winning actress and singer known for lighthearted comedic roles.
For her comedic performance in Cactus Flower (1969), Hawn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Goldie Jeanne Hawn
- Born
- 21 November 1945
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress, singer
- Years active
- 1966–present
- Partner
- Kurt Russell (1983–present)
- Children
- Oliver Hudson
- Kate Hudson
- Wyatt Russell
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Hawn released her debut self-titled country album Goldie in 1972, recorded with help from Dolly Parton and Buck Owens.[1][2] Her first time on stage was in 1964, portraying Juliet in a Romeo and Juliet production put on by the Virginia Shakespeare Festival.[3] Hawn's first movie appearance was a small part in the 1968 western comedy The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.[1] For playing a woman who joins the army in the comedy Private Benjamin (1980), Hawn earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[1]
The Hawn Foundation, a nonprofit that delivers youth education programs, was established by Hawn in 2003.[4]
What the cited sources add
A 2017 Interview article notes that Hawn was one of only a handful of actresses at the time to produce her own films.[5] The same source states that Hawn started to take control of her career after being directed by Steven Spielberg on The Sugarland Express (1974).[5] A wideopencountry.com account reports that Hawn's 1972 album Goldie was arranged by Buck Owens, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner.[6] The Tampa Times reviewer Rick Norcross selected "Uncle Pen" as the album's finest track, according to that same source.[6]
A 2017 Heyman article describes Hawn as raising feminist eyebrows while playing a bombshell ditz on Laugh-In.[7] The Biography.com entry states that Hawn earned two Emmy Award nominations during her television career.[8] A 2012 Guardian profile reports that Hawn developed the MindUP program with neurologist Judy Willis.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Goldie Hawn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: wideopencountry.com Goldie Hawn Albumaccessed 08/31/2026 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Goldie Hawn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mason, "Goldie: Review", AllMusic (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Goldie Hawn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "'Romeo and Juliet' Performance a Hit," Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), August 18, 1964. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Goldie Hawn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: About Us , The Hawn Foundation; "Goldie Hawn: How Her Foundation Is Supporting Our Youth", July 31, 2013; Schonert-Reichl, "The Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Education Program on Pre- and Early Adolescents' Well-Being and Social and Emotional Competence", Mindfulness, 2010, p. 137–151 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Hudson, "Goldie Hawn", Interview, April 27, 2017. facts only, no text reused. interviewmagazine.com
- wideopencountry.com Goldie Hawn Albumaccessed 08/31/2026. facts only, no text reused. wideopencountry.com
- Heyman, "Solid Goldie: Goldie Hawn Is Back and Better Than Ever", May 17, 2017. facts only, no text reused. harpersbazaar.com
- "Goldie Hawn Biography: Actress (1945–)", Biography.com (FYI / A&E Networks). facts only, no text reused. biography.com
- Groskop, "Goldie Hawn: Hollywood's happiness guru", The Guardian, March 4, 2012. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Goldie Hawn (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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