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

Early life

Hudson was born in Los Angeles to William Louis Hudson (a singer, comedian and member of the Hudson Brothers) and Goldie Hawn (a well-known film actress). Her paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from Salerno, and her mother is of Hungarian Jewish descent; Hudson was raised in the Jewish religion , and also practices Buddhism, describing herself as a "Jew-Bu".

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.

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

Career

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. She 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.

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 . 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 .

Personal life

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

Hudson is left-handed.

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Actors - Kate Hudson

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