Kurt Russell

Russell was married to actress Season Hubley from 1979 to 1983. They had a son, Boston Russell. Russell began his relationship with actress Goldie Hawn in 1983 after they reunited while working on Swing Shift, and they have remained partners since then. Their son, Wyatt Russell, became an actor.

Russell and Hawn had first appeared together in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1968. They later co-starred in Swing Shift and Overboard. Russell and Hawn received stars in a joint Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in 2017. He and Hawn have lived at Home Run Ranch, a retreat outside Aspen, and have also owned homes in Vancouver, Snowmass Village, Manhattan, Brentwood, and Palm Desert.

Russell began acting on television in 1962 with appearances on Dennis the Menace and The Dick Powell Show. He made his film debut in It Happened at the World's Fair in 1963 and played the lead role in the Western television series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters from 1963 to 1964.

In 1966, Walt Disney Productions signed Russell to a ten-year contract. His Disney films included Follow Me, Boys!, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive, and The Strongest Man in the World. He also voiced the adult Copper in Disney's animated film The Fox and the Hound.

Russell played minor league baseball in the early 1970s while continuing to act. He was a switch-hitting second baseman for teams including the Bend Rainbows, Walla Walla Islanders, and El Paso Sun Kings, and also played for the Portland Mavericks, which his father, Bing Russell, owned. A torn rotator cuff in 1973 ended his baseball career and led him to focus fully on acting.

Russell received acclaim for portraying Elvis Presley in the 1979 television film Elvis, directed by John Carpenter. His performance earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Season Hubley played Priscilla Presley in the film and married Russell that same year.

Carpenter then cast Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981), a role that helped him move beyond his Disney image. Russell reprised the character in Escape from L.A. (1996). His other Carpenter collaborations included the science-fiction horror film The Thing (1982) and the martial arts comedy Big Trouble in Little China (1986). All three films later developed cult followings.

Russell earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance opposite Meryl Streep and Cher in Mike Nichols's drama Silkwood (1983). He continued to work across genres in films such as The Mean Season, Tequila Sunrise, Overboard, and Tango & Cash.

Russell starred as firefighter Stephen McCaffrey in Backdraft (1991), Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993), and Colonel Jack O'Neil in Stargate (1994). He also appeared in Breakdown, Dark Blue, Vanilla Sky, Poseidon, and Miracle, in which he portrayed U.S. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks. His performance in Miracle received strong critical praise.

In the 2000s and 2010s, Russell worked with Quentin Tarantino in Death Proof, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He played Sheriff Franklin Hunt in Bone Tomahawk and Jimmy Harrell in Deepwater Horizon.

Russell portrayed Mr. Nobody in three Fast & Furious films, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, and F9: The Fast Saga. He played Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the animated series What If...?, and portrayed Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles and The Christmas Chronicles 2.

Russell returned to a leading television role as Lee Shaw in the Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. He also joined the cast of the Paramount+ drama The Madison as Preston Clyburn and appeared in The Rivals of Amziah King.

His honors include induction as a Disney Legend, the Saturn Awards' Life Career Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He won the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor for Bone Tomahawk, received an ensemble award for The Hateful Eight, and won the Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series or Movie for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Russell served in the California Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975 as a member of the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing. He is an FAA-licensed private pilot with single-engine, multi-engine, and instrument ratings, and has served as an honorary council member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope. In 2010, he received the Aviation Mentor Award as part of the Living Legends of Aviation.

He has described himself as a libertarian and has expressed support for gun rights. He also appeared in The Battered Bastards of Baseball, a documentary about his father and the Portland Mavericks.