Goldie Hawn Biography

Fast Facts

• Descendant of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Took ballet and tap lessons beginning at the age of 3
• Ran her own dance studio after high school
• Worked as a go-go dancer before she was tapped to join NBC's comedy revue Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
• Breakout film role was in the 1969 comedy Cactus Flower
• Met longtime companion Kurt Russell on the set of the 1984 comedy Swing Shift
• Posed for the cover of Playboy magazine at age 39
• Was honored by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 1997
• Formed the production company Cosmic Entertainment in 2003 with Kurt Russell
• Began the Hawn Foundation to support programs that improve the emotional and mental health of children
• Penned a 2005 memoir titled A Lotus Grows in the Mud