Kate Hudson
Birthdate: April 19, 1979 (47 Years Old)
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Kate Hudson (birthname: Kate Garry Hudson) is an Oscar-nominated Best Supporting Actress who has shifted from frothy rom coms to dramas, and launched her movie career in a co-starring role in director/writer Morgan J. Freeman’s comedy-drama, Desert Blue (1998), co-starring Brendan Sexton III, John Heard, Sara Gilbert, Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck, and released by Franchise Pictures.
Hudson joined the sprawling cast of the New York comedy, 200 Cigarettes (1999), starring Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Janeane Garofalo, Gaby Hoffmann, Courtney Love, Jay Mohr, Martha Plimpton, Ricci and Paul Rudd under Risa Bramon Garcia’s direction, and earning a weak $7 million for producers MTV Productions/Lakeshore Entertainment and distributor Paramount Pictures.
Hudson was cast by legendary director/producer Robert Altman’s comedy, Dr. T & The Women (2000), starring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid and Liv Tyler, and released by Artisan Entertainment (U.S.)/Splendid Film-20th Century Fox (Germany)/Initial Entertainment Group (Overseas) to a disappointing $22.8 million return.
Hudson enjoyed her career breakthrough and earned her first Oscar nomination for her supporting role in director/writer/producer Cameron Crowe’s rock n’ roll comedy drama, Almost Famous (2000), with Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor and Philip Seymour Hoffman, winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Crowe (while earning three other Oscar nominations), and launched at the Toronto Film Festival but losing money for distributors DreamWorks (U.S.)/Columbia TriStar Distributors International (International) with a $47.4 million gross.
Kate Hudson co-starred in the college-based thriller, Gossip (2000), co-starring James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Marisa Coughlan, Joshua Jackson, Eric Bogosian and Edward James Olmos under Davis Guggenheim’s direction, and resulting in poor returns ($12.6 million) for Warner Bros., and then Hudson led the cast of director/writer Gerard Stembridge’s rom com, About Adam (2000), with Stuart Townsend, Frances O’Connor and Rosaleen Linehan, and released by Miramax Films (U.S.)/Metrodome Distribution (U.K.). '
Hudson co-starred in another box office failure with co-stars Heath Ledger and Wes Bentley, The Four Feathers (2002), adapted by screenwriters Michael Schiffer and Hossein Amini from A.E.W. Mason’s 1902 novel, with Djimon Hounsou and Michael Sheen, and grossing $29 million for distributors Paramount Pictures (U.S.)/Miramax International (International).
Hudson joined Naomi Watts as co-stars in Merchant-Ivory’s American-French adaptation of Diane Johnson’s 1997 novel, Le Divorce (2003), co-written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, co-starring Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Stephen Fry, Thierry Lhermitte, Matthew Modine, Bebe Neuwirth and Sam Waterston, and which earned $13 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures/UGC Fox Distribution (France).
Hudson co-starred with Luke Wilson in director/producer Rob Reiner’s rom com, Alex & Emma (2003), with Sophie Marceau and David Paymer, and rejected by both critics and audiences with a poor $15 million gross, and then Hudson finally had a box-office hit with the Paramount Pictures rom com, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), co-starring Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele and Shalom Harlow, and garnering a strong $177.5 million return.
Kate Hudson joined another veteran director—Garry Marshall—for co-writers Jack Amiel’s and Michael Begler’s comedy-drama, Raising Helen (2004), with John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere, Spencer Breslin and Helen Mirren, but which lost money (based on estimated costs) for Buena Vista Pictures/Touchstone Pictures/Beacon Pictures/Hyde Park Entertainment/Mandeville Films with a $49.7 million gross.
Hudson had her name above the title of her first horror movie, director/producer Iain Softley’s The Skeleton Key (2005), featuring Gena Rowlands, Pater Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant and John Hurt and which delivered a good return of $94 million for Universal Pictures, and Hudson starred in another Universal success, the rom com You, Me and Dupree (2006), co-starring Owen Wilson (who also produced), Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen and Bill Hader under the co-direction of Anthony and Joe Russo, and grossing a robust $130.6 million.
Hudson reunited with co-star Matthew McConaughey in director/co-writer Andy Tennant’s romantic adventure for Warner Bros. Pictures, Fool’s Gold (2008), with Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner, Kevin Hart and Ray Winstone, and earning a mediocre (based on estimated costs) $111 million gross, followed by Hudson joining Dane Cook, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan and Alec Baldwin in the Howard Deutch-directed rom com, My Best Friend’s Girl (2008), produced and released by Lionsgate to a $41.6 million gross. Hudson for the first time produced and starred (with Anne Hathaway) in the Gary Winick-directed rom-com, Bride Wars (2009), with Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, and Candice Bergen, grossing a strong $116 million return for lead producers Fox 2000 Pictures/New Regency Productions/Dune Entertainment and distributor 20th Century Fox.
Kate Hudson was part of the ensemble of director/producer Rob Marshall’s big-screen musical loosely based on Maury Yeston’s and Arthur Kopit’s Broadway show, Nine (2009), co-written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, and which was also inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren, nominated for four Oscars, but grossing a poor $54 million (based on estimated costs) for The Weinstein Company/01 Distribution (Italy). Hudson reunited with co-star Casey Affleck in one of her few dramas, director Michael Winterbottom’s version of Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel, The Killer Inside Me (2010), with Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Simon Baker, and Bill Pullman, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before grossing a poor $4 million return for IFC Films.
Hudson co-starred with Gael Garcia Bernal in the Nicole Kassell-directed rom com, A Little Bit of Heaven (2011), written by Gren Wells, co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucy Punch, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Bates, but proving to be a box office disaster (based on estimated costs) for The Weinstein Company with a $1 million return, and then Hudson co-starred with Ginnifer Goodwin, John Krasinski and Colin Egglesfield in the feature version of Emily Giffin’s 2005 book, Something Borrowed (2011), written by Jennie Snyder Urman and produced by Hilary Swank, and earning a $60 million gross for distributors Warner Bros. Pictures (North America-France)/Summit Entertainment (International).
Hudson then joined director Mira Nair in the U.S./India/Qatar-backed political thriller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), adapted (by William Wheeler) from Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel, and starring Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi, launching as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival and then bombing at the box office ($2 million globally) for distributors IFC Films (U.S.)/PVR Pictures (India).
Kate Hudson had a supporting role in star/director/co-writer/producer Zach Braff’s comedy-drama, Wish I Was Here (2014), co-written and co-produced with Braff’s brother Adam, and featuring Josh Gad, Ashley Greene, Joey King, Mandy Patinkin and Jim Parsons, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and earning a poor $5.5 million gross for distributor Focus Features, followed by Hudson starring with James Franco in the little-seen thriller, Good People (2014), directed by Henrik Ruben Genz and released by Millennium Films. Hudson co-starred with Bill Murray in the commercial flop, Rock the Casbah (2015), with Beejan Land, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, Scott Caan, and Bruce Willis, and delivered a poor gross ($3.4 million) for distributor Open Road Films.
Hudson did her first voice performance in an animated feature joining the cast of DreamWorks Animations’ hit sequel, Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), starring Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong and Jackie Chan under the co-direction of Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, and garnering a robust $521 million gross for 20th Century Fox.
Hudson co-starred with Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, and Jason Sudeikis in director/story writer Garry Marshall’s rom-com, Mother’s Day (2016), with Shay Mitchell, Britt Robertson, Timothy Olyphant, and Hector Elizondo, garnering negative reviews (including a Razzie nomination for Hudson) and earning $49 million for distributor Open Road Films.
Kate Hudson joined her stepfather Kurt Russell for the first time in a movie in the thriller based on true events, Deepwater Horizon (2016), directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg (who also produced), John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez and Dylan O’Brien, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and delivering a poor gross for Lionsgate with $122 million globally. Hudson had a prominent supporting role in director/producer Reginald Hudlin’s Thurgood Marshall biopic, Marshall (2017), starring Chadwick Boseman in the title role, Josh Gad, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell, but underperformed at the box office for Open Road Films with a $10 million return.
Hudson then starred in Music (2021), the feature debut of pop singer/songwriter Sia as director/co-writer/producer, with Leslie Odom Jr. and Maddie Ziegler, receiving largely negative reviews and audience disinterest, with a mere $646,000 box office against an estimated $16 million budget for distributors Vertical Entertainment (U.S.)/HanWay Films (International). Hudson starred in American indie filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour’s fantasy thriller, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021), with Jun Jong-seo in the title role, Ed Skrein, and Craig Robinson, and which premiered at the Venice Film Festival before a Saban Films release.
Kate Hudson joined the ensemble of director/writer/producer Rian Johnson’s second movie in the series, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline and Dave Bautista, launching at the Toronto Film Festival, opening for a one-week theatrical run by Netflix and earning an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Hudson co-starred with Michael Shannon in director/writer Michael Maren’s indie comedy, A Little White Lie (2022), based on Chris Belden’s 2014 novel, with Don Johnson, Zach Braff, Aja Naomi King, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, but returned just over $20,000 in box office for Saban Films.
Hudson joined Elisabeth Moss (who also produced) as leads in director/producer Max Minghella’s body horror movie, Shell (2024), with Arian Moayed, Este Haim, Elizabeth Berkley, and Kaia Gerber, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and given a limited theatrical release by Republic Pictures. Hudson paired in a singing role with Hugh Jackman in director/writer/producer Craig Brewer’s dramatization of the 2008 Greg Kohs non-fiction film, Song Sung Blue (2025), with Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, Mustafa Shakir, Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi, produced by Davis Entertainment and released wide by Focus Features (U.S.)/Universal Pictures (International).
Personal life
Kate Hudson was born in Los Angeles and raised briefly by her parents, actor Goldie Hawn and actor/producer/composer Bill Hudson, who divorced when she was 18 months old; Hudson’s stepfather is actor Kurt Russell. Hudson’s sister is Erinn Bartlett; Hudson has several half-siblings, including actor Wyatt Russell (birthed with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell), as well as Emily and Zachary Hudson (birthed by Hudson’s birth father with actor Cindy Williams), and Lalania Hudson (birthed by Bill Hudson with another woman).
Hudson graduated from the college prep school Crossroads in Santa Monica, California, but while preparing to attend New York University, decided to pass on a higher education to pursue her acting career. Hudson was married to Chris Robinson from 2000 to 2007; the couple has one child, Ryder. Hudson was partners with British musician Matt Bellamy from 2010 to 2014, and has one child, Bing; and has been a partnership with Danny Fujikawa from 2016 to the present, and has one child, Rani. Hudson’s height is 5’ 6¼ ”. Hudson’s estimated net worth is $80 million.
Kate Hudson Movies
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- 2022 |
Glass Onion
asBirdie Jay
Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.
- 2017 |
- 2016 |
Kung Fu Panda 3
asMei Mei
Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to home.
- 2016 |
Mother's Day
Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
- -- | Rock the Kasbahas Merci
- -- | as Claire
- -- | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Daysas Andie
- -- | as Penny Lane
Facts About Kate Hudson
Real Father: Kate Hudson considers her true father Kurt Russell, who raised her from her early childhood with her mother Goldie Hawn; she has said that her birth father, Bill Hudson, “doesn’t know me from a hole in the Wall.”
Victory: Hudson successfully sued the National Enquirer for libel (about a false story that claimed that she had an eating disorder), one of the few individuals to compel the Enquirer to admit that it made up a story.
Fitness Branding: Kate Hudson co-founded the successful fitness brand, Fabletics.
Singer: Hudson made her first studio album, titled Glorious, for Virgin Music Group in 2024.
