Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, dancer and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. 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 rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1968–1970). She made her screen debut in a minor role in the western comedy The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), with Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren, and John Davidson. She then went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress her role in Gene Saks’s Cactus Flower (1969), with Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Weston, Rick Lenz, Vito Scotti, and Irene Harvey.
Films in the early 1970s Roy Boulting’s There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970), with Peter Sellers, Tony Britton. Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Judy Campbell, and John Comer; Richard Brooks’s Dollar$ (1971), with Warren Beatty, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, and Scott Brady; Butterflies Are Free (1972), with Eileen Heckart, Edward Albert, and Paul Michael Glaser; Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express (1974), with Ben Johnson, William Atherton, and Michael Sacks; and Robert Ellis Miller’s The Girl from Petrovka (1974), with Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, and Grégoire Aslan.
Films in the mid to late 1970s include Hal Ashby’s Shampoo (1975), with Beatty, Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, and Carrie Fisher; Melvin Frank’s The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), with George Segal, Conrad Janis, and Richard Farnsworth; Colin Higgins’s Foul Play (1978), with Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy, and Billy Barty; and Mario Monicelli’s Lovers and Liars (1979), with Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Laura Betti, Aurore Clément, and Andréa Ferréol.
She received a second Academy Award nomination (this time for Best Actress) for Howard Zieff’s Private Benjamin (1980), with Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker, Barbara Barrie, Mary Kay Place, Harry Dean Stanton, and Albert Brooks. Other films in the 1980s include Seems Like Old Times (1980), with Chase, Charles Grodin, and Robert Guillaume; Norman Jewison’s Best Friends (1982), with Burt Reynolds, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley, Keenan Wynn, and Ron Silver; Jonathan Demme’s Swing Shift (1984), with Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris and Holly Hunter; Herbert Ross’s Protocol (1984), with Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland, Cliff DeYoung, Keith Szarabajka, Ed Begley Jr., Kenneth Mars, and Jean Smart; Michael Ritchie’s Wildcats (1986), with James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Nipsey Russell, Bruce McGill, M. Emmett Walsh, Mykelti Williamson, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, and Jan Hooks; and Garry Marshall’s Overboard (1987), with Roddy McDowall, Edward Herrmann, and Katherine Helmond.
Films in the 1990s include John Badham’s Bird on a Wire (1990), with Mel Gibson, David Carradine, Bill Duke, and Stephen Tobolowsky; Damian Harris’s Deceived (1991), with John Heard, Robin Bartlett, and Beatrice Straight; CrissCross (1992), with Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine, Steve Buscemi, and David Arnott; Frank Oz’s Housesitter (1992), with Steve Martin, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, and Peter MacNicol; Robert Zemeckis’s Death Becomes Her (1992), with Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini; Hugh Wilson’s The First Wives Club (1996), with Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber, Stephen Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Berkley, Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Smith, Bronson Pinchot, Rob Reiner, Heckart, Philip Bosco, and Timothy Olyphant; Everyone Says I Love You (1996), with Alan Alda, Woody Allen (who also directed), Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas, Gaby Hoffmann, Natasha Lyonne, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth, and David Ogden Stiers; and The Out-of-Towners (1999), with Martin, Mark McKinney, and John Cleese.
Films in the 2000s onwards include Town & County (2001), with Beatty, Keaton, Garry Shandling, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, Josh Hartnett, Buck Henry, and Charlton Heston; The Banger Sisters (2002), with Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush, Robin Thomas, Erika Christensen, and Eva Amurri; Jonathan Levine’s Snatched (2017), with Amy Schumer, Joan Cusack, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Christopher Meloni; a voice role in SPF-18 (2017), with Carson Meyer, Noah Centineo, Bianca A. Santos, Jackson White, Molly Ringwald and Rosanna Arquette; a cameo in The Christmas Chronicles (2018), with Russell, Judah Lewis, Darby Camp, Lamorne Morris, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Oliver Hudson; and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020), with much of the previous cast as well as Julian Dennison, Jahzir Bruno, Tyrese Gibson, Sunny Suljic, Darlene Love, and Malcolm McDowell.
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- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) – directed by Michael O’Herlihy
- The Sidehackers (1969) – directed by Gus Trikonis – uncredited
- Cactus Flower (1969) – directed by Gene Saks
- There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970) – directed by Roy Boulting
- Dollar$ (1971) – directed by Richard Brooks
- Butterflies Are Free (1972) – directed by Milton Katselas
- The Sugarland Express (1974) – directed by Steven Spielberg
- The Girl from Petrovka (1974) – directed by Robert Ellis Miller
- Shampoo (1975) – directed by Hal Ashby
- The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) – directed by Melvin Frank
- Foul Play (1978) – directed by Colin Higgins
- Lovers and Liars (1979) – directed by Mario Monicelli
- Private Benjamin (1980) – directed by Howard Zieff – also executive producer
- Seems Like Old Times (1980) – directed by Jay Sandrich
- Best Friends (1982) – directed by Norman Jewison
- Swing Shift (1984) – directed by Jonathan Demme
- Protocol (1984) – directed by Herbert Ross – also executive producer
- Wildcats (1986) – directed by Michael Ritchie – also executive producer
- Overboard (1987) – directed by Garry Marshall – also uncredited executive producer
- Bird on a Wire (1990) – directed by John Badham
- My Blue Heaven (1990) – directed by Herbert Ross – executive producer only
Deceived (1991) – directed by Damian Harris - CrissCross (1992) – directed by Chris Menges – also uncredited executive producer
- Housesitter (1992) – directed by Frank Oz
- Death Becomes Her (1992) – directed by Robert Zemeckis
- Something to Talk About (1995) – directed by Lasse Hallström – executive producer only
- The First Wives Club (1996) – directed by Hugh Wilson
- Everyone Says I Love You (1996) – directed by Woody Allen
- Hope (1997) – director only – TV movie
- The Out-of-Towners (1999) – directed by Sam Weisman
- When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) directed by Jane Anderson – executive producer only – TV movie
- Town & Country (2001) – directed by Peter Chelsom
- The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) – directed by Roger Spottiswoode – executive producer only – TV movie
- The Banger Sisters (2002)* – directed by Bob Dolman
- Hot Flash Havoc (2012) – directed by Marc Bennett – narrator – documentary
- Snatched (2017) – directed by Jonathan Levine
- SPF-18 Narrator (2017) – Alex Israel – narrator
- The Christmas Chronicles (2018) – directed by Clay Kaytis – cameo
- The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020) – directed by Chris Columbus
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