• Faith: Judaism
• Career: Actress
• Birthday:  November 21, 1945

Goldie Hawn is an actress who rose to fame on the sketch series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Cactus Flower." She appeared in other films like "There’s a Girl in My Soup,” “Butterflies Are Free,” “The Sugarland Express,” “Shampoo,” “Foul Play,” “Seems Like Old Times,” and “Private Benjamin,” for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role. She later starred in “Overboard,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Death Becomes Her,” “The First Wives Club,” and “The Banger Sisters.”

She made her return to film with roles in “The Christmas Chronicles,” “Snatched,” and “The Christmas Chronicles 2.” Hawn is the mother of actors Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Wyatt Russell. She’s been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since 1983. In 2003, she founded The Hawn Foundation, which educated underprivileged children. Hawn was born in Washington, D.C., to Laura and Edward Rutledge Hawn. She was named after her mother’s aunt. She has one sister, Patti. Their brother, Edward Jr., died in infancy before Patti was conceived. The girls were unaware of their brother’s existence growing up. Hawn grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland and attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

She started taking tap dance and ballet lessons when she was three years old and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of “The Nutcracker” in 1955. In 1964, she made her stage debut, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of “Romeo & Juliet.” In 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama. Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of “Can-Can” at the Texas Pavillion of the New York World’s Fair. She started working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Pepperming Box in New Jersey.  

Hawn 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 1966 season. She started her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived sitcom “Good Morning World” during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jokey with a stereotypical “dumb blonde” personality.

What religion is Goldie Hawn?

Hawn’s father was a Presbyterian, and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. She was raised Jewish in Takoma Park, Maryland. In an interview, she said, "I don't think of myself as a Buddhist. I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion." She also stated, "It's not the idea of a particular religion that's important; it's the development of a spiritual life.” She’s also studied meditation.