Kate Garry Hudson was born April 19, 1979 and is a well-known Oscar-nominated American film actress.


Kate Hudson's Early Life
Kate Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California to William Louis Hudson (a singer, comedian and member of the Hudson Brothers) and Goldie Hawn (a well-known film actress). Her mother is of Hungarian Jewish descent, and her father has distant Italian ancestry; Kate Hudson was raised in the Jewish religion, and also practices Buddhism, describing herself as a "Jew-Bu".


Kate Hudson's parents divorced shortly after her birth, and she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell. She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson (from her father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams) and Wyatt (from her mother's relationship with Russell). Her cousin is singer Sarah Hudson.


Kate Hudson graduated from Crossroads, a performing school in Santa Monica, in 1997.

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Kate Hudson's Career


Kate Hudson's breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Kate Hudson had previously appeared in the lesser-known films Gossip, a teenage drama, and 200 Cigarettes, a New Year's-set comedy with a large cast of actors.


Kate Hudson turned down the part of Mary Jane Watson in the 2002 film version of Spider-Man, and instead starred in remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, a film which was not well received by critics or audiences.


Her next film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy, became a big success at the box office, grossing over $100 million after its February 2003 release. Kate Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen; the films were met with varying degries of success.


Her latest film is the 2005 thriller, The Skeleton Key, which was a mild box office success in August 2005, grossing over $45 million.


Kate Husdon's Personal Life



Because Kate Hudson's biological father was absent during most of her childhood, the two are estranged from each other. In 2000, Kate Hudson told Vanity Fair that her father

"doesn't know me from a hole in the wall."

She considers her mother's partner, Kurt Russell, to be her father.


In 2000, Kate Hudson married Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. She gave birth to their son, Ryder Russell Robinson, on January 7, 2004. The couple live in a house that was once owned by director James Whale.


Kate Hudson is left-handed.


Kate Hudson's Films
2006 You, Me and Dupree Molly Petersen

2005 The Skeleton Key Caroline Ellis
2004 Raising Helen Helen Harris

2003 Le Divorce Isabel Walker
2003 Alex and Emma Emma Dinsmore

2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Andie Anderson
2002 The Four Feathers Ethne

2000 Dr. T & the Women Dee Dee
2000 Almost Famous Penny Lane

2000 Gossip Naomi Preston
1999 200 Cigarettes Cindy

1998 Desert Blue Skye Davidson