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Kate Hudson
Occupation : Actress
Birth Date : April 19, 1979 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Birth Place : Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name : Kate Garry Hudson
Height : 5' 6"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Education : high school
Husband/Wife: Christopher Mark Robinson (Black Crowes lead singer; born in 1966; dating as of late spring 2000; engaged in August 2000; married on December 31, 2000)
Relationship : Lenny Kravitz (musician; born in 1964), Elijah Craig (actor; son of actress Sally Field; dated 18 months)
Father : William Louis Hudson (aka Bill Hudson; born on October 17, 1949; married in 1976; divorced in 1980)
Mother : Goldie Hawn (actress; born on November 21, 1945)
Brother : Oliver Hudson (born on September 7, 1976; married actress Erinn Bartlett on Friday, June 9, 2006; father: Bill Hudson)
Half Sister : Emily Hudson (born in 1982; mother: Cindy Williams)
Half Brother : Wyatt Russell (actor; born on July 10, 1986; father: Kurt Russell), Zachary Hudson (born in 1986; mother: Cindy Williams), Boston Russell (born in 1980; father: Kurt Russell)
Grand Father : Edward Rutledge Hawn (one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence)
Grand Mother : Laura Hawn
Step Father : Kurt Russell (actor; born on March 17; 1951)
Step Mother : Cindy Williams (actress; born on August 22, 1947)
Son : Ryder Russell Robinson (born on January 7, 2004)
Claim to fame : as Penny Lane in Almost Famous (2000)
The daughter of Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson bears more than a passing resemblance to her famous mother in both looks and onscreen vivacity. Born in Los Angeles on April 19, 1979, Hudson made her screen debut in 1998. She first earned notice for her work in 200 Cigarettes (1999), an ensemble film that cast her as naive Cindy out on a date with caddish Jack (Jay Mohr). Although the film proved to be a substantial critical and commercial disappointment, Hudson's performance was singled out for some of the scant praise the film did receive. The following year, she could be seen starring opposite fellow up-and-comer Joshua Jackson in Gossip, a drama centered on the disastrous side effects of rumor-mongering on a college campus.
If critical recognition had eluded her in the past, it certainly caught-up with her at the 2000 Golden Globe Awards, where she took home the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Engulfed in the Hollywood hype machine following her winning role in Almost Famous, it seemed as if Hudson was set to follow her mother in taking the film industry by storm. After soaking in her nowfound fame in the early years of the new millennium, Hudson emerged from a whirlwind schedule of fashion shoots and awards shows to appear in the /romantic /war drama The Four Feathers in 2002. Though The Four Feathers was quickly and unceremoniously relegated to box-office obscurity, Hudson fired back with an almost surefire hit when she starred opposite quirky heartthrob Matthew McConaughey in the /romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003). While subsequent roles in Alex and Emma, Le Divorce, and Raising Helen did little to elevate Hudson's already-comfortable star status, a venture into the unknown in the curiously original but largely underseen Skeleton Key at least showed the actress' willingness to explore new territory onscreen.
Back in the realm of comedy, Hudson would do her best to tolerate onscreen husband Matt Dillon's eccentric best-friend when the down-on-his-luck Dupree (Owen Wilson) arrives on their doorstep looking for a place to stay in the farcical summer comedy You, Me, and Dupree. Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
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