Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Hawn received the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower. In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which educates underprivileged children.
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Hawn received the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower. She later starred in such films as There’s a Girl in My Soup, Butterflies Are Free, The Sugarland Express, Shampoo, Foul Play, Seems Like Old Times, and Private Benjamin. In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which educates underprivileged children. 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 has one sister, entertainment publicist Patti Hawn ; their brother, Edward Jr. died in infancy before Patti was conceived. Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent, and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Hungary. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland. 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 and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.
She 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. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama. She made her feature film debut as 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. The same year, she appeared in The Spring Thing, a television special hosted by Bobbie Gentry and Meredith MacRae Irwin. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie Hawn Special in 1971 and The Goldie Special in 1978. She continued proving herself in the dramatic league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Pet Cemetery and The Girl Pet Pet from Pet Pet Pet. She starred in a string of successful comedies above and above the above, starting with The Banger Sisters in 1978 and The Bizarre Bizarre Special in 1979. She won an Academy Award for her role as Walter Matthau’s fiancée in The First Wives Club.
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