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 | Goldie Hawn biography |
Hawn was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff), 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; a brother, Edward, died before she was born. Through her father, Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hawn was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary;Hawn was raised in Judaism.
Hawn 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 instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn, who graduated from Montgomery Blair High School (class of 1963), 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.
Her other films include:
THE FAMILY BAND
FIVE THE HARD WAY
CATUS FLOWER
THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
THE GIRL FROM PETROVKA
SHAMPOO
THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRT WATER FOX
FOUL PLAY
PRIVATE BENJAMIN
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
BEST FRIENDS
SWING SHIFT
PROTOCOL
WILDCATS
OVERBOARD
BIRD ON A WIRE
DECEIVED
CRISS-CROSS
HOUSESITTER
DEATH BECOMES HER
FIRST WIVES CLUB
EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU
THE OUT OF TOWNERS
TOWN & COUNTRY
THE BANGER SISTERS
Goldie Hawn's other television credits include:
LAUGH-IN (series)
GOOD MORNING WORLD (series) |
