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Biography

Birth Name: Kate Garry Hudson
Birthdate: April 19, 1979
City: Los Angeles, CA
Occupations: Actor, Model
Claim to Fame: Featured as part of an ensemble cast in the 1980's-period comedy 200 Cigarettes (1999).

Significant Others:
Husband: Chris Robinson, musician (lead singer of Black Crowes), married December 31 2000.
Kate has also been linked to Lenny Kravitz and Eli Craig (actor and son of actor Sally Fields)

Family:
Grandfather: Edward Rutledge Hawn, musician
Grandmother: Laura Hawn (nee Steinhoff); appeared in small roles in Goldie Hawn's films Swing Shift and Deceived
Father: William Louis Hudson (aka Bill Hudson), actor, comedian, musician; married Goldie Hawn in 1976; divorced 1980, married actress Cindy Williams in 1982; rarely had contact with his daughter.
Mother: Goldie Hawn, actor - born November 21 1945
Step-Father: Kurt Russell, actor. Been with Hawn since 1982 - Kate considers Russell her father.
Brother: Oliver Hudson, actor - born 1976
Step-brother: Boston Russell - born 1980. Son of Kurt Russell and Season Hubley; raised by Hawn and Russell along with Hudson.
Half-brother: Wyatt Russell - born 1986. Son of Hawn and Russell.
Half-sister: Emily Hudson. Daughter of Bill Hudson and Cindy Williams.
Half-brother: Zachary Hudson. Son of Bill Hudson and Cindy Williams.

Awards:
2001:

• Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress, Almost Famous

• Broadcast Film Critics Association: Breakthrough Performance, Almost Famous
• Florida Film Critics Circle: Best Newcomer, Almost Famous
• Golden Satellite: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Almost Famous.
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society: Best Supporting Actress, Almost Famous
• Online Film Critics Society: Best Supporting Actress, Almost Famous

Factoids:

• Guest starred on the Fox dramaParty of Five (1996)
• Her parents divorced when she was a toddler. Her mother, screen icon Goldie Hawn, became involved with actor Kurt Russell, who helped raise Kate, and whom Kate fondly calls "Pa."
• She attended Crossroads, a performing arts school in Los Angeles. Although encouraged to take the academic route at New York University, the bright movie lights beckoned, and Kate persuaded her folks to let her try her luck.
• As a kid, her older brother Oliver says Kate was always "dancing, posing, modeling," and raiding her mom's closet -- something she still likes to do. "Whenever Mom goes out of town, she locks her closet door!"
• Sounds like a brother ...Oliver affectionately calls her "Dumbo" because of her ears, as well as "Hammerhead Shark" for the space between her eyes. When in L.A., she stays at her parents' home (that much closer to Mom's wardrobe), where they celebrate good news with what they call the "Happy Dance." She takes Pilates and dance classes and loves to read.

Quotes:

• "I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me. But these high expectations sometimes make me fell like I'm under a microscope--especially with my mother being who she is." --Movieline, February 1999
• "[My husband and I] talked about how we probably knew each other in the caveman days. He still clubs me over the head and drags me into his cave." - Kate Hudson, actress, on the relationship the mother-to-be has with her husband, Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes.(Source: People)
• "I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious."
• "Sometimes I'll be walking down the street [in France] and I'll hear some American and I'll just go, 'Of course they hate us, of course they can't stand us. We're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world.' I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the ketchup for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up."
• "Honesty will never break you. So, I try to always be honest."
• "Every day it's nice to stop and say: Wait a minute, I am so lucky, this is great."

On Life / Relationships / Family:

• "Honesty will never break you. So, I try to always be honest"
• "Hey, I got to wear a pretty dress! But what's grounding for me, is just to know that what we all do in my family, we do because we love it, not because of the attention you get from it. Because that can be not so much fun sometimes. And I've been pretty adamant about that." -on losing the Oscar
• "Amazing! I'm young, but it's so much fun. And it truly is. When I met Chris, we just knew. Like we were already married when we weren't married. And so when we decided to get married, it was something that we felt we wanted to do. We also wanted to bring our families together. You know, to sort of state what it is we truly feel about each other in front of our friends and family. So that was the most important thing" -on her marriage to rock hubby Chris Robinson
• "Ooh yeah, baby! I was always a big Black Crowes fan. But see, now that I'm married, I can say it. You know, before, when I just met him, I would be like, well I don't know. Yeah, I loved his music. As a matter of fact, when I was twelve, I would dance to their music, and cry my eyes out while I was dancing. I love the Black Crowes, I still do!" -on being a fan of the Black Crowes
• "It really, truly was the most incredible day. It was so emotional and moving for everybody, in every way. It was like a going away party for me, almost. And I think it was real interesting for my parents to hear our vows. Because it brought a lot of things to light about what our relationship means to us. Which is something that was important for us to share in front of everybody" -on her wedding day
• "Ha. All the time…no. When I was single, there was that idea of when it rains it pours and then it's like a drought. It's like what am I doing wrong and then all of a sudden there are guys and they're all calling and this is great. But I've never been involved in a love triangle. I'm too much of a goodie two shoes to be like that" -on having guys vying for her love
• "I have an agent that I really respect. And I have an amazing team of people who help me and it allows me to be able to make right decisions and feel good about it. One of the reasons why Chris and I fell so in love is that we believe that I'm not willing to compromise what I love to do by making decisions based on what people think I'm supposed to be doing. And so I'm just going to remember to try to make good movies, hopefully and enjoy them, enjoy the process. You can get so carried away with what other people perceive you as and it's not true" -on making great career choices
• "Right now, I love writing music. I play the guitar but I think of it more as a hobby. When and if I do decide to do something with music, I'd have to be very committed to it. I have a little different take on music than most people do. If I'm gonna do it, I'd go on the road and I can't even see myself doing that at all right now" -on singing
• "If I Could Only Remember My Name", David Crosby. It's one of my favorite albums. My favorite is "Laughing", the Joni Mitchell song. We love "The Incredible String Band". We're really into it. We listen to a lot of John Harding.. He sang "Dolphins" but a really beautiful version of it. We've been really into folk music lately and "The Tower Recordings", kids from Brooklyn. It's like '60's psychedelic music. Chris travels with like 200 CD's." -on music
• "Women always have issues with each other but these past two movies that I've done, the one with Naomi Watts, we had an incredible time together. We had so much fun. That was probably my first experience enjoying another actress and becoming really good friends, other than working on Bob Altman's" -on having the company of female actresses on set

On Movies:

• "I think it's always important to do what you believe in, and to do what you're passionate about. You know, that keeps you excited. And you get to meet the most amazing people. Even at times when I couldn't get a job, I would drop things that I didn't believe in. And that has nothing to do with how much money is being put into a movie or not. So yeah." -on working on smaller films
• "Penny Lane is a real person, but she's a composite of characters, different women he's met along his way. I did a lot of research too. We took all of that and combined it into one. One big thing was that in most all of these women there's a such a sadness to them. It's in their eyes, something that is very lost, and they hide it very well. If you're researching them, you pick up on it. If you're watching for something like that, you pick up on it. If you're just talking to them, they seem like the most fun people in the world." -on Penny Lane
• "Oh my God! I just totally freaked out! I couldn't believe it." -on her thoughts of first seeing the 'Almost Famous' poster
• “‘Stand by Me.’ It brings me back to when I was a little girl and saw it for the first time.” - Actress Kate Hudson, naming a classic movie, in InStyle.

Overheard: "I accepted who I was and what pod I came from. I didn't fall too far from the tree, and I'm okay with that. I'm never going to try to be anything I'm not..."

Kate trivia:

• Chris hates small dogs, yet Kate loves them.
• Kate has 3 dogs - Clara, a Pomeranian, Doctor's an English bulldog and Bella who is a Neapolitan mastiff.
• Kate was once rumoured to be in line for part of Mary Jane in Spiderman
• In her fifth grade talent show Kate danced to Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" - and won!
• Kate would like to tuen to directing one day.
• Kate was once a model for Tommy Hilfiger
• Her brother Oliver used to call her 'Hammerhead' as a child
• Joni Mitchell's song "River" makes Kate cry
• Kate is left-handed, and dated hockey superstar/pretty boy Eric Lindros
• Is a big fan of Martha Stewart

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