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Kate Hudson Now: Actor Embarks on Singing Career with “Talk About Love” Single and Music Video
After appearing in more than 40 films and television shows throughout her career, actor Kate Hudson is back on screen in a surprising way: her very own music video. Hudson, 44, released the video for her debut single, “Talk About Love,” on March 4.
The Almost Famous star co-wrote the track with her fiancé, musician Danny Fujikawa. “I wanted [the song] to be open and seeking, searching to find something powerful,” Hudson said in a news release. “But I also wanted the music to be the rock, the pop, the dance music and even a bit of the alternative records I love.” As of Wednesday afternoon, the video for “Talk About Love” had amassed more than 110,000 views on YouTube.
Hudson promises the new tune, released in late January, isn’t just a one-time experiment. After signing a record deal with Virgin Music Group also in January, the budding singer has promised a full album later this year, though a date hasn’t been determined. She also recently performed her first concert in January in Aspen, Colorado. “I always said with music, when people would ask me if I’m ever going to do it, for me it was like if I’m going to do it I’m going to really do it. Like, I’m really going to commit to the process,” she said during a recent appearance on TODAY. “There’s nothing half-assed about my relationship to music. It’s the most vulnerable, I think, I’ve ever been creatively.”
Who Is Kate Hudson?
Actor Kate Hudson is best known for her roles in the movies Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The daughter of actor Goldie Hawn and musician-actor Bill Hudson, Kate was also raised by actor Kurt Russell, who is her mother’s longtime companion. After embarking on her own acting career, Hudson earned her first major movie role in 1998 and by the end of 2000, she had charmed her way into the hearts of fans and critics with her Oscar-nominated performance in Almost Famous. Beyond acting, Hudson cofounded the fitness brand Fabletics, co-hosts the Sibling Revelry podcast, and has turned her attention to music with the 2024 release her debut single “Talk About Love.”
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Kate Garry Hudson
BORN: April 19, 1979
BIRTHPLACE: Los Angeles, California
SPOUSE: Chris Robinson (2000-2007)
CHILDREN: Ryder, Bingham, and Rani
PARENTS: Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries
Early Life: Parents and First Roles
Kate Garry Hudson was born on April 19, 1979, in Los Angeles. Her parents are actor-producer Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, a 1970s musician in The Hudson Brothers and a television actor.
Kate was raised by her mother and Hawn’s longtime companion, actor Kurt Russell, after her parents divorced when she was 18 months old. As a result, she and her brother, Oliver, have multiple half-siblings, including actor Wyatt Russell, as well as a stepbrother.
No stranger to the show business life, Kate decided to embark on an acting career of her own, landing an agent and a guest spot on the TV drama Party of Five in 1996 when she was a teenager.
Upon her acceptance to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Hudson convinced Hawn and Russell to let her defer a year in order to concentrate on finding her first film role. In 1998, she appeared in the little-seen independent film Desert Blue, alongside fellow up-and-coming young actors Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, and Brendan Sexton III. She was also a featured player in the ensemble cast of 200 Cigarettes (1999), a comedy that received poor reviews despite a talented cast that included Ricci, Ben Affleck, Paul Rudd, and Courtney Love.
Oscar Nomination for Almost Famous
Hudson began the year 2000 somewhat inauspiciously, with a supporting turn as a virginal college student in the unimpressive teen thriller Gossip. By year’s end, however, she had charmed her way into the hearts of moviegoers and critics with her breakthrough performance as Penny Lane, the leader of a group of girls, or so-called “Band-Aids,” who worship at the altar of 1970s rock ’n’ roll in the movie Almost Famous. Originally cast in a smaller role in writer-director Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical film, Hudson won a lead role after another young actor, Sarah Polley dropped out.
As Penny, the sometime lover of Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup)—lead guitarist in the rock band Stillwater—and the object of affection for Crowe’s own alter ego, the budding rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit), Hudson was in many ways the emotional center of Almost Famous. Her glowing performance earned her a Golden Globe Award in 2001 and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Movies: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Glass Onion, and More
Since her mainstream breakout, Hudson has appeared in dozens of movies. Also in 2000, she appeared in the ensemble cast of Robert Altman’s Dr. T and the Women, co-starring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, and Liv Tyler. In 2001, she starred in Four Feathers, a wartime drama co-starring Wes Bentley and Heath Ledger.
Next, she headlined the 2003 romantic comedies How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, with Matthew McConaughey, and Alex & Emma, with Luke Wilson. The following year, she starred in Garry Marshall’s Raising Helen as a successful single woman forced to take care of her sister’s three young children after a car accident. More blockbuster opportunities followed in You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), Bride Wars (2009), The Killer Inside Me (2010), and Something Borrowed (2011).
Hudson then surfaced on the small screen with a recurring role in Glee during the 2012-13 season. She featured prominently in 2015’s Rock the Kasbah, another movie that tanked despite a cast that boasted the talents of Bill Murray and Zooey Deschanel.
After providing voice work for Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Hudson returned to patented romantic comedy fare later that year in Mother’s Day, alongside Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, and Jason Sudeikis, before joining her father-figure Kurt Russell and Mark Wahlberg in the disaster flick Deepwater Horizon. In 2017, she appeared alongside Chadwick Boseman in Marshall, about one of the early cases of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
More recently, Hudson appeared in the 2022 Netflix mystery-comedy Glass Onion, a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out and starring Daniel Craig as fictional private eye Benoit Blanc. Hudson played Birdie Jay, a fashion designer and former supermodel invited to the mansion of eccentric millionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton) for a murder mystery game that becomes all too real. “You just don’t read characters like that very often, that truly pop off the page and then are supported by such a nuanced writer,” Hudson said of Birdie. “She’s not a one-note flamboyant character—she is layered and has purpose and motivation.”
Fabletics and Books
In 2013, Hudson teamed with business partners Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler to launch a fitness brand, Fabletics, through the online fashion retailer JustFab.
The actor became a New York Times best-selling author with the 2016 publication of her inspirational book Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body. She followed in 2017 with Pretty Fun: Creating and Celebrating a Lifetime of Tradition.
Relationships and Kids
Hudson is currently engaged to musician Danny Fujikawa. After first meeting through friends more than a decade earlier, Hudson and Fujikawa reconnected during a December 2016 hiking date. Their relationship blossomed, and the couple welcomed a daughter named Rani Rose in October 2018. Their next milestone came in September 2021 when Hudson and Fujikawa got engaged.
Prior to her relationship with Fujikawa, Hudson was married to Chris Robinson, lead singer of rock band The Black Crowes, from December 2000 until their divorce in October 2007. She was then engaged to Muse band member Matthew Bellamy, but the couple called it quits in 2014.
Hudson also has one son each with Robinson and Bellamy. Ryder was born in January 2004 to her and Robinson, then Hudson and Bellamy welcomed Bingham in 2011.
Like her mother, Hudson is a practicing Buddhist.
Sibling Revelry Podcast
In November 2019, Hudson and her brother Oliver launched a podcast cleverly called Sibling Revelry, in which they talk to other famous siblings about their family bonds and dynamics.
Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Kate Hudson’s total fortune is estimated to be around $80 million.
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