Goldie Hawn

Some Lesser Known Facts About Goldie Hawn

• Goldie Hawn was born in Washington, DC, USA. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland USA.

• Her father had German and English ancestry, while her maternal grandparents were Hungarian-Jewish immigrants.

• Her father, Edward Rutledge Hawn, was a descendant of Edward Rutledge (1749-1800), the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

• In an interview, she revealed that she was named after her aunt.

• She is known for playing lighthearted comedic roles in Hollywood films and television.

• At the age of 3, Goldie Hawn started getting lessons in tap dance and ballet.

• Her first entertainment dance performance was at “The Nutcracker” dance show at the age of 11. She earned $1.50 for her performance.

• Goldie Hawn made her professional stage debut in 1964 when she played the character of Juliet in the Romeo and Juliet drama of Virginia Shakespeare Festival production House.

• In 1964, she dropped out of American University, Washington, and opened her Ballet school in Washington DC USA, where she taught her students ballet dance.

• In 1965, she became a professional dancer. She appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City Festival and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.

• In 1966 she was discovered by the Hollywood talent agent Bud Simon while dancing in Andy Griffith’s “Uptown-Downton” live dance album TV special show, and offered her debut TV serial Good Morning (1967).

• In an interview, Goldie Hawn once revealed that she gave an audition for Romeo and Juliet (1968), but she didn’t get the offer as she didn’t perform well at the audition.

• Goldie Hawn with the production help of American singers Dolly Parton and Buck Owens recorded and released a self-titled solo pop-country music list “Butterfly” for Warner Bros (American filmed entertainment studio).

• In 1976, she became one of the first women in Hollywood, who owned a production house.

• Her performance as Judy Benjamin in the film Private Benjamin (1980) was ranked number 70 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

• In 1985, she was featured on the cover page of The Play Boy Magazine.

• In an interview, Goldie Hawn revealed that she had a traumatic natural birth with her son Oliver Hudson, so she delivered her other two children, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell, via Caesarean sections.

• Goldie Hawn was chosen as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history by Empower Magazine (1995).

• She was the first woman to be honoured by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 1997.

• Some of her popular films are There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Girl from Petrovka (1974), Foul Play (1978), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The First Wives Club (1996), The Out-of-Towners (1999), and The Banger Sisters (2002).

• Her popular TV shows are Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1968), Hope (1997), Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1997), When Billie Beat Bobby (2001), Phineas and Ferb (2013), and Gutsy (2022).

• On 9 August 2020, she was honoured with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.

• In the early 2000s, she was also linked to news reporter Charles Glass and Pakistani politician and Cricketer Imran Khan.

• Goldie Hawn founded “The Goldie Hawn Foundation Mind Up”, a non-profit organization in 2003. This organisation provides educational programs that support the social and emotional development of underprivileged children.

  

• Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson opened their production house titled Cosmic Entertainment in 2003.

• In 2005, Goldie Hawn published her autobiography co-authored with Wendy Holden, “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”.

  

• Goldie Hawn returned to films in 2017 after a gap of 15 years and appeared in the film Snatched  (2017) co-starring Amy Schumer. Schumer also advocated for her casting in the film and even threatened the production that she would leave the project if Hawn was not cast in the film.

  

• In 2017, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California.

  

• Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell appeared together in five films: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), Swing Shift (1984), Overboard (1987), The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020).

• Goldie Hawn appeared with her daughter Kate Hudson in the film Snatched (2017), and with her son Oliver Hudson in the films The Christmas Chronicles (2018), and The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020).

• Goldie Hawn has a total of 8 grandchildren.

• Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are Hollywood’s longest-lasting unmarried couple. They owned many properties together such as homes in Vancouver (Canada), the Pacific Palisades (California), Palm Desert (California and Snowmass Village (California).

• Goldie Hawn described herself as a Jew-Bu (Jewish Buddhist). In 2004, she introduced The Dalai Lama, at the “Tribute to the Dalai Lama” concert at Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre.

• In an interview, she revealed that she practices meditation and mindfulness exercises daily, and she also encourages children at her “Mind Up foundation” to engage in these practices.

  

• Goldie Hawn loves to spend quality time with her family and friends.

• Goldie Hawn is the present owner of her childhood home in Takoma Park, Maryland USA. She used to go there more often.

  

• Hawn is a supporter of the LGBT community. She Speaks on nations such as Nigeria and others which have criminalized gay people. She protested these laws, stating, “This is man’s inhumanity to man, of the first order.”

• She is an avid dog lover.

  

• She occasionally drinks alcohol.

• Goldie Hawn loves to play golf.