Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer who was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura, a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt. She has a sister, Patricia; her brother, Edward, died before she was born. Through her father, Goldie is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Goldie was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland where she went to Montgomery Blair High School. Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary; Goldie was raised in Judaism.

^{Goldie began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the chorus 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, Goldie 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.}

^{Goldie began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality. 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.}

^{In addition to her notoriety on Laugh-In, Goldie has starred in many movies including Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, andCactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson.} 

^{Goldie's first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis. Her second husband was Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers, the two divorced in 1980. They have two children, actor Oliver Hudson and actress Kate Hudson.}

^{Goldie has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983, when the two met again on the set of Swing Shift (they had previously met while filming 1968's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band). The couple have a son, Wyatt Russell. Goldie is stepmother to Kurt Russell's son Boston and she became a grandmother in 2004, when her daughter gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson.} 

^{Goldie became involved in Eastern philosophy in 1972. She is a practicing Buddhist and has raised her children in both Buddhist and Jewish traditions. She stated on the Larry King Show that she is a Jewish Buddhist, but neither more Jewish nor more Buddhist; in interviews, she also detailed that she never had to forsake her Jewish heritage to embrace Buddhism and that her Jewish religion and heritage come before Buddhism. Goldie travels to India annually, and has visited Israel, stating that she felt a strong identification with its people.  She has been criticized by pro-Palestinian activists for her support for Israel and the Jewish National Fund. In 1997, she was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany.}

^{Please pray for Goldie.  God loves them.  Pray for sent ones who will minister to them and show them the way to the cross!} 

^-Heidi