Kate Hudson

Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of the Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor comedian, actor and musician.Her parents separated when she was 18 months old and she and her older brother who was an actor, Oliver Hudson, were raised in Snowmass, Colorado, and Pacific Palisades, California by her mother and her mother's long-time lover, actor Kurt Russell.Hudson's ancestry is Italian (from her paternal grandmother), Hungarian Jewish (from her maternal grandmother),and the rest are a mix of English and a little German.She was raised Jewish and, like her mother she is also a practitioner of Buddhism.Hudson has said that her biological father "doesn't know me through a hole in the wall" She considers Russell as her father.Hudson has stated that her mother is "the one I've learned the most from, and whom I admire, who has conducted her life in a way that I can aspire to". [14] She has four half-siblings: Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's second marriage to actress Cindy Williams; Lalania Hudson, from his relationship with a woman of another gender; as well as Wyatt Russell, from her mother's romance with Kurt Russell.In 1997 she was a graduate of Crossroads which was a college preparatory school in Santa Monica. She was accepted into New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of an undergraduate degree