Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jean Hawn was born in Washington DC, United States, on November 21, 1945. Although her father, a musician, was a Presbyterian, she was raised as a Jew by her mother, a Semite of Hungarian origin, owner of a dance school and a jewelry store. . It is natural that she already gave dance lessons at the age of three, to the point that as a ten-year-old girl she participated with the chorus of the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo in a production of “The Nutcracker”. From such father to son, she herself became a professional dancer and director of the family dance school at the age of nineteen, which seemed to herald that her claim to be an actress should remain in the trunk of unrealized good intentions.

Curiously, being a professional dancer allowed her to make her film debut in 1968 with The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band , a Disney family film about a family singing at the Democratic Party convention, starring Walter Brennan . Hawn’s role was decidedly fleeting – more important was her participation in very Yankee television series, such as the sitcom Good Morning, World – but it was a start on the big screen, and she coincided with her partner since 1983, Kurt Russell, with the who has not gotten married, but with whom he has a son. She yes she would with Gus Trikonis, with whom she was married between 1969 and 1974, and with the musician Bill Hudson, here between 1976 and 1980, with whom she had two children, one is also the actress Kate Hudson . Curiously, one of Goldie’s most popular films, Private Benjamin (1980), follows a woman whose first two marriages are rocky—one ended in divorce, the other’s husband dies on their wedding night—and the third wedding never happened. comes to be crowned

Immediately it was seen that this mischievous blonde with a mischievous look and good figure was ideal for comedy, she could play a silly girl with a good look, with a heart and with more gray cells than she seems. And she mastered her registers enough not to fall into histrionics. And in his second film, a comedy with the immense Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman , he took the Oscar to the water, his work in Cactus Flower (1969) as the bride who believes that her dentist sweetheart is a married man, was hilarious. and captivated the members of the Academy. She was born decidedly a comedian, not easy terrain in Hollywood, and less to be recognized with awards, the drama usually has better consideration. With Peter Sellers she willThere’s a Girl in My Soup (1970), his partner in $ (1971) will be Warren Beatty , and a youthful Steven Spielberg will ask him for Crazy Escape (1974), a runaway where a criminal couple tries to get their own son back as they try to outrun the relentless pursuit of the police. In 1975 he repeated with Beatty under the orders of Hal Ashby .

No matter how you look at it, and although she sings and records records, or appears on variety television shows, her thing is comedy. With a western format in The Duchess and the Knave (1976), in Dangerous Play (1978) and Like Old Times (1980) with Chevy Chase , and even in Italian, directed by Mario Monicelli , and with Giancarlo Giannini , in the failed A trip with Anita (1979). After being nominated for an Oscar with Private Benjamin , she begins to slow down and the quality of her films, although she still makes Girls at War (1984) for Jonathan Demme , she shares shots withMel Gibson in Two Birds One Shot , and he even tries his luck with the pure and hard thriller in Deceived (1991). She’s funny Surprise Wife ( Frank Oz , 1992), where she makes a perfect tandem with Steve Martin , which works better than in the subsequent Outsiders in New York (1999). And perhaps it is one of the best of Robert Zemeckis ‘s strange fantastic comedy Death suits you so well (1992), where Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep are also present.. From here a parenthesis opens in the career of the actress, who for two years dedicates herself to caring for her sick mother, who dies in 1994. Surely her Buddhist beliefs helped her cope with this test, that she reconciles with her Judaism.

1996 is the swan song for Goldie, who works with Woody Allen in the quirky Venetian musical Everybody Says I Love You , and belongs to a club of divorcees also made up of Diane Keatobn and Bette Midler in The First Wives Club . The last film starring the actress dates from 2002, and in it she has Susan Sarandon as a partner . But clearly Forced Friends is a want and can’t, an outdated and graceless story that seems to have decided Goldie to retire from the screens. This has not prevented him from publishing her memoirs, “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, in 2005, and from announcing –just announcing– a possible new film with Kurt Russell ., about a widow who loses her husband’s ashes on her way to India.