Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson's breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which Kate Hudson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Kate Hudson had previously appeared in the lesser-known films Gossip, a teenage drama, and 200 Cigarettes, a New Year's-set comedy with a large cast of actors. Regarding her early career and succees, Kate Hudson has noted that she is a "hard worker", and did not want to be associated with her well-known parents, wishing to avoid the perception that she "rode on somebody's coattails".

Kate Hudson turned down the part of Mary Jane Watson in the 2002 film version of Spider-Man, and instead starred in remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, a film which was not well received by critics or audiences. Her next film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy, became a big success at the box office, grossing over $100 million after its February 2003 release. Kate Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen; the films met with varying degrees of success.

Kate Hudson has long expressed an interest in producing films, and is currently finalizing a deal to produce and star in the film A Dream of Red Mansions, opposite Ken Watanabe, in which Kate Hudson will play Diana Mellors, a real-life photojournalist who moved to China and became a Communist; filming began in the fall of 2006.