Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#28305
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Goldie Hawn represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 48 years in, and Goldie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Goldie Hawn appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Goldie. Marty, Life Is Short is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lawrence Kasdan, Chris Columbus, Hugh Wilson and others, Goldie Hawn helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Marty, Life Is Short (2026) as Self (archive footage) · Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) as Self (archive footage) · The Christmas Chronicles (2018) as Mrs. Claus
Career snapshot
Ranked #28305 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1978–2026
Career length
48 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Marty, Life Is Short
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Marty, Life Is Short
Most frequent director
Lawrence Kasdan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lawrence Kasdan
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.9
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Marty, Life Is Short, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Foul Play.
Most productive era
1990s
4 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | — | 4.41 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | — | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.81 film | 6.54 films | 7.21 film | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film | 6.32 films | 4.41 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1978Foul Play
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gloria Mundy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
12 of 12 films
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
as Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Helen Sharp
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Self (archive footage)
Marty, Life Is Short (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) gives Goldie Hawn a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Elise Elliot Atchison
The First Wives Club (1996)
Performance score7.4
The First Wives Club asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elise Elliot Atchison is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt
Overboard (1987)
Performance score7.4
Overboard asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self (archive footage)
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
Performance score7.3
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self (archive footage)
Start here. Marty, Life Is Short is the clearest statement of what Goldie Hawn does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Goldie at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Overboard (1987)
A deliberate change of key after Marty, Life Is Short — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Keeps the comedy register of Overboard but asks for a colder reading of it.
The First Wives Club (1996)
Keeps the comedy register of Death Becomes Her but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The First Wives Club — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Colin Higgins
Director
1 film together
Notably Foul Play
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Overboard
John Badham
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird on a Wire
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Becomes Her
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Everyone Says I Love You
Hugh Wilson
Director
1 film together
Notably The First Wives Club
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Marty, Life Is Short
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marty, Life Is ShortRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Becomes HerGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OverboardHugh Wilson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The First Wives ClubChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Christmas Chronicles: Part TwoWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everyone Says I Love YouColin Higgins
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Foul PlayJohn Badham
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bird on a WireSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
SPF-18
as The Narrator (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Goldie Hawn has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
48 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
SPF-18
as The Narrator (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Foul Play
as Gloria Mundy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mrs. Claus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mrs. Claus
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Foul Play
as Gloria Mundy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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