After achieving fame on the TV sketch comedy “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In” from 1968-1970, Goldie Hawn went on to appear in many popular movies, including 1980’s “Private Benjamin,” for which her hilarious portrayal of a Jewish army recruit in basic training earned her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1969’s “Cactus Flower” and a Primetime Emmy for “Outstanding Variety or Music Program” in 1980 for “Goldie and Liza Together.”
Hawn was raised Jewish, although, she notes, “not in a strictly religious atmosphere,”….Hawn recalls being asked to dance on point for a friend’s Bar Mitzvah. The music started, and she slipped and fell—twice. Succeeding on her third attempt, [she later noted] “I realized I was probably the little girl who was going to make it.” (From The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women of the Jewish Women’s Archive)
Hawn and actor Kurt Russell (with whom she’s lived since 1983) have five dogs, and Hawn often posts pictures of their dogs on her Instagram account. As Inquistr online once put it: “Goldie Hawn is a crazy dog lady – and we mean that as a compliment.” Mazel Pups agrees with Inquistr – that’s one of the best compliments you can give someone!
