Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson, September 2008
Born	Oliver Rutledge Hudson (1976-09-07) September 7, 1976 (age 35) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Erinn Bartlett (2006-present)
Parents	Bill Hudson Goldie Hawn
Relatives	Kate Hudson (sister)

Oliver Rutledge Hudson (born September 7, 1976) is an American actor. He is the son of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, and brother of Kate Hudson. Since 2007, Hudson has starred in the CBS series, Rules Of Engagement.

Early life[link]

Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson. His parents divorced in 1980; he and his sister, actress Kate Hudson, were raised in Colorado by his mother and his mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.^[1] Hudson says that he considers Russell to be his father. He has four half-siblings: Emily and Zachary, from his biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams; Lalania, from another of his father's relationships in 2006; and Wyatt, from his mother's relationship with Kurt Russell.

Hudson is of mixed ethnic descent: he is one quarter Hungarian Jewish (from his maternal grandmother) and one quarter Italian (from his paternal grandmother). In addition, Hudson's maternal grandfather was a descendant of the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Edward Rutledge (who was of English and Scots-Irish descent).^[2] He was raised partially in his maternal grandmother's Jewish religion.^[3] Hudson is also the cousin of singer Sarah Hudson.

Career[link]

Hudson is best known for starring as Adam Rhodes in the TV series Rules of Engagement (2007–present), My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star and The Mountain (2004–2005), and supporting roles in the films New Best Friend (2002) and The Out-of-Towners (1999). Hudson also played opposite Katie Holmes as her love interest "Eddie Doling" in sixteen episodes of Dawson's Creek. Hudson played in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event but went broke on the very first hand, losing to 2003 runner-up Sam Farha (who had a better Full House than Hudson).

Personal life[link]

Hudson married actress Erinn Bartlett on June 9, 2006 in Mexico. The couple have two sons; Wilder Brooks Hudson, was born on August 23, 2007 and Bodhi Hawn Hudson, born on March 19, 2010.^[4][5]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Oliver Hudson at the Internet Movie Database

Bianca Maria Kajlich ( /biˈɑːŋkə ˈkeɪlɨk/ KY-lik; born March 26, 1977) is an American actress. Kajlich has had starring and supporting roles in television and film; she currently plays Jennifer on the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement.^[1]

Early life[link]

Bianca was born in Seattle, Washington, to Patti and Dr. Relo Kajlich. Her father is Slovak and her mother is of Italian descent.^[2] She is a graduate of Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle, Washington, and attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

Career[link]

She began her career with the Olympic Ballet Theater as a ballet dancer in Edmonds, Washington. After spending seven years with them she decided on acting. By that time she had already performed lead roles in The River, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker.

Her first acting part was in an advert for Kragen Auto Parts. Kajlich has since appeared in the films Bring It On, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Halloween: Resurrection. She has also had recurring roles in the television series Boston Public, as Lisa Grier, and Dawson's Creek, as Natasha Kelly. She also had roles in two canceled television series, UPN's Rock Me Baby and the Fox drama Vanished. Bianca appeared on an episode of the USA Network's Psych entitled "Psy vs. Psy" as a psychic FBI agent who ends up not being who she appears to be. She appeared as a major character in an episode of Fox's short-lived action TV show, Fastlane, as a prostitute named Bree whose pimp wants her dead. She had a quick appearance as a punk nose piercing girl on the TV series Freaks and Geeks, and she currently plays Jennifer on the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement.^[3] She was ranked #74 on the Maxim "Hot 100 Women of 2004"^[4] and #63 on the Maxim "Hot 100 Women of 2007".^[5]

Bianca played Juicy in the 2011 American/Canadian/German adventure comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer, 30 Minutes or Less.

Personal life[link]

Kajlich married U.S. soccer player Landon Donovan on December 31, 2006.^[6] The couple separated in late 2009^[7] and a petition for divorce was filed on December 23, 2010.^[8] In a post-match interview during the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament, Donovan, who had scored the winning goal in the match, threw in a "Hi, Bianca" comment among his answers to the media member's questions.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bianca Kajlich's official website
• Bianca Kajlich at the Internet Movie Database
• Rules of Engagement Cast Bio – Bianca Kajlich
• Donovan Files for Divorce from Bianca Kajlich.

Erinn Anne Bartlett (born February 26, 1973) is an American actress who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Bartlett was born near Longmeadow, Massachusetts and first competed in the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA title in 1989, when she placed first runner-up.^[1] She went on to win the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA crown in 1991 and represented Massachusetts in the Miss Teen USA 1991 held in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19, 1991. Barlett made in the top twelve of the nationally televised event, placing sixth in interview, last in swimsuit and tenth in evening gown. Her average competition score put her in tenth place overall.

She graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in communications. She became engaged to actor Oliver Hudson, son of Goldie Hawn, on 21 February 2004^[2] and the two married on 9 June 2006.^[3] In March 2007 it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child.^[4] On August 23, 2007, Bartlett gave birth to a boy, Wilder Brooks Hudson, in Los Angeles.^[5] It was announced in October 2009 that the couple are expecting their second child.^[6] Bartlett gave birth to the couple's second son, Bodhi Hawn Hudson, on March 19, 2010.^[7]

Filmography[link]

• Deep Blue Sea (1999)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• Buying the Cow (2000)
• The In Crowd (2000)
• Shallow Hal (2001)
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2002, episode "Motherhunt")
• Pumpkin (2002)
• Girl Fever (2002)
• The Last Run (2004)
• Raising Helen (2004)
• Rumor Has It… (2005)
• How I Met Your Mother, as Mary (2006, episode "Mary the Paralegal")
• My Brother Brooks (2006)
• The Benchwarmers (2006)
• Four Kings, as Denise (2006, episode "Bobby's Song")
• NCIS, as Madeline Torrance (2007, episode "Skeletons")
• Unhitched, as Nikki (2008, episode "Pilot")

References[link]

External links[link]

• Erinn Bartlett at the Internet Movie Database
• Erinn Bartlett at AllRovi

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Sam Farha
Sam Farha at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Nickname(s)	Mister Cool, Sammy
Residence	Houston, Texas
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	3
Final table(s)	6
Money finish(es)	9
Highest ITM Main Event finish	2nd, 2003
World Poker Tour
Title(s)	None
Final table(s)	None
Money finish(es)	3
Information accurate as of 15 July 2009.

Ihsan (Sammy) Farha (born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1959) is a professional poker player. He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event in 2003 and has won three bracelets at the WSOP.

Early years[link]

Farha moved to the United States after the Lebanese Civil War broke out when he was in his teens. After settling in Wichita, Kansas in 1977, he attended the University of Kansas. He graduated with a degree in business administration and moved to Houston, Texas to work with his brother. Farha first played a game of poker a year after moving to Houston, and won several thousand dollars. He quit his job in 1990 to play poker full time.

World Series of Poker[link]

Farha's biggest tournament finish was in the 2003 World Series of Poker main event, where he finished second to Chris Moneymaker for $1,300,000. On the second day of play Farha lost a major pot to Barry Greenstein leaving him with only 10% of the average stack. He was considering leaving at this point and was talked into staying by Greenstein. He lost the final hand to Moneymaker after going all in with a pair of jacks on the flop, only to be called by Moneymaker who had flopped bottom two pair.

In a rematch between Farha and Moneymaker a few months later, organized by PokerStars, Farha won.^[1] They played against each other again in a special match during 2011 World Series of Poker, which was won by Moneymaker in best-of-three format.^[2]

In an ironic twist, the key hand came in the rubber match after Farha and Moneymaker both flopped two pair on a J/10/2 board. Farha held J/10 to Moneymaker's J/2. A river deuce crippled Farha, and Moneymaker later won the match. The hand that crippled Farha was the same hand that he held in 2003 when he lost the title to Moneymaker heads-up.

Farha also finished in the money in the 2005 WSOP main event, as well as the 2010 WSOP main event.

In an odd twist, Farha, after winning the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or better) event in 2006, skipped playing the event the next three years. He then played it again in 2010, after it was increased to a $10,000 buy-in event. He went on to win it, so while not winning the event consecutively, Farha did win the bracelet both times he played in the event.

World Series of Poker bracelets[link]

All of Farha's bracelets have come in Omaha events.

Other activities[link]

Farha is working on a book, tentatively titled Luck is Not Enough, a reality TV poker series, and a video game^{[citation needed]}. He is a spokesman for Harrah's casino in Las Vegas.

He has appeared on the GSN series High Stakes Poker, in seasons 1-4.

As of 2010, his total winnings exceed $2,800,000 in live tournament poker,^[3] although he tends to primarily play in high stakes Omaha cash games. His 9 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,540,043 of those winnings.^[4]

Farha also made a cameo appearance in the 2007 film, Lucky You.

Notes[link]

1. ^ Pokerstars.com: Chris Moneymaker vs. Sam Farha, Round 2
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Hendon Mob tournament results
4. ^ World Series of Poker Earnings, worldseriesofpoker.com

External links[link]

• LaunchPoker.com profile
• PokerPlayerProfiles.com profile
• BlindBetPoker.com profile

Goldie Hawn
Hawn in February 2008
Born	Goldie Jeanne Hawn (1945-11-21) November 21, 1945 (age 66) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer, director
Years active	1967–present
Spouse	Gus Trikonis (m. 1969-1976) Bill Hudson (m. 1976-1980; 2 children)
Partner	Kurt Russell (1983-present; 1 child)
Children	Oliver Rutledge Hudson (1976-09-06) September 6, 1976 (age 35) Kate Garry Hudson (1979-04-19) April 19, 1979 (age 33) Wyatt Russell (1986-07-10) July 10, 1986 (age 25)
Relatives	Erinn Bartlett (daughter-in-law)

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.

Early life[link]

Hawn was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn, a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt.^[1] She has a sister, Patricia; her brother, Edward, died before she was born. Through her father, Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence.^[1] Hawn was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she went to Montgomery Blair High School. Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary;^[2] Hawn had a Jewish upbringing.^[1][3][4][5]

Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later, and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.^[1]

Career[link]

1960s[link]

Hawn with Carl Reiner on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, 1970.

Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality.^[1] Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968-1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl.

Hawn's Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancée.

1970s[link]

After Hawn's Academy Award win, her film career took off. She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), and Butterflies Are Free (1972), as well as proving herself in the dramatic league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express, and Shampoo in 1975. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort of comeback for Hawn, who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son. On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, popular television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. This came four months before the feature film release of Foul Play (with Chevy Chase), which became a box office smash and revived Hawn's career in the film industry. The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in a murder plot. Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was a box office bomb. In 1972 Hawn recorded and released a solo country LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie. It was recorded with the help of Dolly Parton and Buck Owens. Allmusic gives the album a favorable review, calling it a "sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record".^[6]

1980s[link]

Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with another primetime variety special alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together (1980), which was nominated for four primetime Emmys. In the same year, Hawn took the lead role in Private Benjamin, a comedy she produced. Private Benjamin, which also stars Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante, garnered Hawn her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.^[1] Hawn's box office success continued with comedies like Seems Like Old Times (1980), Protocol (1984), and Wildcats (1986) — Hawn also served as executive producer on the latter two — and dramas like Best Friends (1982) and Swing Shift (1984).

At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue. Hawn posed in a giant martini glass wearing nothing but a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie, and a pair of red stilettos. Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard (1987).

1990s[link]

Hawn at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm 1981

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson. Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived (1991), the drama CrissCross and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success. Hawn was absent from the screen again for four years while caring for her mother who died of cancer in 1994.^[1] Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her directorial debut in the television film Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.^[1]

Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life. She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office.^[7][8] In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.^[9]

2000s[link]

In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. In 2002, she appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush.

In 2005, Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published.

Personal life[link]

Relationships and family[link]

Hawn's first husband was dancer (later director) Gus Trikonis, who appeared as a Shark in West Side Story; his sister Gina played Graziella, Riff's girlfriend. Her second husband was Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers; the couple married in 1976 and divorced in 1980. They have two children, actor Oliver Hudson (born September 1976) and actress Kate Hudson (born April 1979).

Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983. They had first met while filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968), but became involved with each other only after meeting on the set of Swing Shift. The couple have a son, Wyatt Russell (born 1986).^[10]

Hawn is the stepmother of Kurt Russell's son Boston, and she became a grandmother in 2004 when her daughter gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson. Her second grandson, Wilder Brooks Hudson, was born to her son Oliver and his wife, actress Erinn Bartlett, in 2007.^[11] In 2010, Oliver and his wife had another boy, whom they named Bodhi Hawn Hudson. Hawn announced it via her Twitter.^[12] Her daughter Kate gave birth to her fourth grandson, named Bingham Hawn Bellamy, in July 2011.^[13][14]

Religion[link]

Hawn became involved in Eastern philosophy in 1972. She is a practicing Buddhist and has raised her children in both Buddhist and Jewish traditions. She stated on the Larry King Show that she is a Jewish Buddhist, but neither more Jewish nor more Buddhist;^[15] in interviews, she also detailed that she never had to forsake her Jewish heritage to embrace Buddhism^[3] and that her Jewish religion and heritage come before Buddhism.^{[citation needed][16]} Hawn travels to India annually, and has visited Israel, stating that she felt a strong identification with its people.^[3] She has been criticized by pro-Palestinian activists for her support for Israel and the Jewish National Fund.^[17] In 1997, she was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany.^[18]

Mindfulness[link]

Hawn founded and funds The Hawn Foundation,^[19] which teaches the Buddhist technique of mindfulness training; where fourth- through seventh-graders are instructed in mindful awareness techniques and positive thinking skills, then tested for changes in behavior, social and emotional competence, and moral development.^[20] A study by the University of British Columbia indicated that children who participated in the program increased significantly in the areas of optimism and positive emotions, while decreasing in aggression.^[21] Hawn was in negotiation with the British Conservative Party (before the country's 2010 general election) to set up a school in Britain where her MindUp technique would be taught.^[22] Hawn realizes that many parents oppose bringing Buddhist methods into public schools, and stated: "There will always be people who see this as scary, or as some kind of Eastern philosophy that they don't want for their kids." Hawn adds, "Mindfulness gives kids a tool for understanding how their brain works, for having more self-control."^[23]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Goldie Hawn

• Goldie Hawn at the Internet Movie Database
• Goldie Hawn at the TCM Movie Database
• The Hawn Foundation

Interviews[link]

• "Hawn: From 'Cactus Flower' to 'Lotus'" USA Today (May 4, 2005)
• "Goldie Hawn A Wallflower?" .60 Minutes. CBS News (May 1, 2005)
• "The Banger Sisters". BBC News Online (January 17, 2003)