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Biography
California native Kate Hudson attracted the attention of the public when she was cast as naïve Cindy, opposite popular actors Jay Mohr, Ben Affleck, Paul Rudd, and Courtney Love, in the comedy film 200 Cigarettes (1999). In 2000, Kate was launched to stardom after her portrayal as rock groupie Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film Almost Famous (2000). Because of her bravura performance, she was highly praised with the Phoenix Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, the Golden Satellite, Las Vegas Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society in 2000. Moreover, Kate won a Golden Globe and a Blockbuster Entertainment award in 2001 as well as received an Oscar nomination for her role.
Kate is also well remembered for playing roles in the movies Dr. T and the Women (2000, directed by Robert Altman), starring Richard Gere Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett and Liv Tyler, The Four Feathers (2002) with Wes Bentley and Heath Ledger, the box office hit How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) opposite Matthew McConaughey, Le Divorce (2003), together with Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing and Bebe Neuworth, and the family comedy Raising Helen (2004), opposite John Cusack, John Corbett and Helen Mirren. Fans will soon see Kate in the horror flick The Skeleton Key (2005), Can You Keep a Secret? (2005) and I Dream of Jeannie (2006).
Off screen, 5' 6" inches tall Kate was listed as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000, the 51st of Stuff Magazine's 102 Sexiest Women In The World in 2002, the 99th of Premiere's Power 100 List in 2003 and once voted as the 38th of VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties. As for her romantic life, Kate, who has three dogs named Clara (a Pomeranian), Doctor (an English bulldog), and Bella (a Neapolitan mastiff), reportedly dated actor Eli Craig, musician Lenny Kravitz and hockey player Eric Lindros. She is currently the wife of musician Chris Robinson (married December 31, 2000) and the mother of son Ryder Russell Robinson (born January 7, 2004).
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