Kate Garry Hudson["Kate", not "Katherine", is her birth name, according to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com] (born April 19, 1979) is an American
film actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after receiving an
Oscar nomination and a
Golden Globe for her role in the drama
Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a
Hollywood lead actress, starring in several films, including
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,
The Skeleton Key,
You, Me and Dupree and
Fool's Gold.
Biography
Early life
Hudson was born in
Los Angeles, the daughter of
Academy Award-winning actress
Goldie Hawn and
Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician.
[Kate Hudson Biography (1979-)] Hudson's parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor
Oliver Hudson, were raised in
Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor
Kurt Russell.
Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers Kurt Russell to be her father.
Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to".
She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress
Cindy Williams, and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with
Kurt Russell.
Hudson is of
English,
Hungarian,
Italian, and
Ashkenazi Jewish descent,
[ancestry.com (accessed September 19, 2008)] and was raised in her maternal grandmother's
Jewish religion;
[Attitude - Say Cheese][Star Chat] her family also practiced
Buddhism. Hudson graduated from
Crossroads, a performing school in
Santa Monica, in 1997. She was accepted to
New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of attending.
