Birth Name: Kurt Vogel Russell
Height: 5' 10''
Nationality: American
Date: March 17, 1951
Birth Place: Springfield, Massachusetts
Occupation: actor
Wife: Season Hubley (actress; together from 1979 to1980; divorced)
Relationship: Goldie Hawn (actress; together since 1982)

Facts about Kurt Russell:

The character made famous by Russell in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is set to become a franchise in all media under the brand The Snake Plissken Chronicles -- Plissken has already been the pivotal presence in two films: the 1981 favorite and its 1996 sequel, ESCAPE FROM L.A. (July 31, 2003)

Russell says DARK BLUE is more of a movie about the police than about the Los Angeles riots that are going on in the background -- Russell stars as Eldon Perry, a third-generation police officer in Los Angeles' special investigations squad, a unit whose cavalier attitude toward citizens' rights results in brutishness, swaggering and bullying. (February 22, 2003)
Russell says Master P and Kurupt are natural actors in DARK BLUE -- He was impressed by the two rappers, both as actors and businessmen. (February 20, 2003)

Hawn and Russel’s teenage son Wyatt has banned them from his first ice hockey games, even though they moved to Vancouver, Canada, to give his sporting dreams a sporting chance – Hawn understands it's hard having parents who are larger than life. (September 2002)

The voice of Elvis in FORREST GUMP (1994) is provided by him who played him in John Carpenter's ELVIS (1979) (TV).
At the beginning of ESCAPE FROM L.A. (1996), he wears his costume from the original film, which still fit after 15 years.
In BACKDRAFT (1991) he, Scott Glenn and William Baldwin, did a lot of their own stunts, and are properly credited as such.

His 59 Cadillac has a license plate that reads 3KMTG which stands for 3000 Miles to Graceland.

Agreed to star in VANILLA SKY (2001) without reading the script.

Considered for the title role for HARD TARGET (1993).

In his screen debut, he kicks Elvis' shins in IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR (1963).

He sustained a broken ankle during the first week of filming SOLDIER (1998), and got a week off. When he came back, all of the scenes where he was laying down were filmed. They followed that with the sitting-down scenes, then the standing-still scenes. Finally, the action scenes were shot. The last scene filmed was the running scene between Todd and Cain 607 near the beginning of the movie.

Everyone's favorite eye-patched mercenary--played by Kurt Russell in director John Carpenter's sci-fi classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and its 1996 Sequel ESCAPE FROM L.A.--is going the way of anime.

He won Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Adventure/Drama in 1997 for EXECUTIVE DECISION.