• She is left handed.
• When she was pregnant she craved peanut butter and pickles.
• Her brother Oliver used to call her ‘Hammerhead’ as a child .
• Kate Believes in voo-doo and hood-doo, and calls her psychics whenever she has questions she wants answered.
• Kate is an emotional and dramatic person.
• She can play the guitar and piano.
• When she was 11, Goldie relented and got her an audition for a lead role in a never-produced television show with Howie Mandel. Kate won the part – but Goldie didn’t tell her, turned it down, and kept the secret until she admitted it a year later.
• Ranked #99 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Power 100 List. It was her first appearance on the list and she was the youngest person on it that year at the age of 24.
• She told her mother Goldie when she was going to have sex.
• She turned down what could have been her big break, a role in Escape from L.A., because it starred Kurt Russell and “I didn’t want to be professionally associated with my dad. I just wanted to see if I could do the audition.”
• She was up for the role in Spider-Man as Mary-Jane, but opted to do The Four Feathers Instead.
• When Kate was in labor Goldie went up and down the hospital corridors chanting Budda chants.
• Kate is half Jewish, half Buddhist – she calls it “Jew-Bu”
• Is good friends with Liv Tyler, who she has known for 10 years.
• Is also friends with Actresses Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox Arquette and her husband David Arquette, Designer Stella McCartney, and Acotrs Ben Stiller and his wife Christine Taylor.
• She shares a production company, Cosmic Entertainment, with brother Oliver, Goldie Hawn, and Kurt Russell – but she says she has no plans to work on screen with her family.
• Kate would like to turn to directing one day.
• Kate has 3 dogs – Clara, a Pomeranian, Doctor’s an English bulldog and Bella who is a Neapolitan mastiff.
• She also turned down roles in Girl with a Pearl Earring and American Beauty.
• In her fifth grade talent show Kate danced to Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” – and won!
• She does smoke.
• Is a big fan of Martha Stewart
• She gained over 70 pounds while pregnant with Ryder.
• Loves being on the road with Chris and Ryder.
• When filming Le Divorce Kate learned french language and culture, and liked it.
• She does yoga.
• Was once a Tommy Hilfiger Model.
• Lost her virginity when she was 15.
• Is a fan of beading and jewellry making.