Before They Were Famous Celebrity Guess Who 06/24/2008

This Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated actress was born in Los Angeles and raised in Colorado.

Brought up Jewish (her family also practices Buddhism), she has become a vocal opponent of anti-Semitism.

She is not close to her biological father and considers her mother's longtime boyfriend her true "Pa."

Without capitalizing on the success of her famous mother, she went from indie beginner to Vanity Fair cover girl in just three years.

Who is she?

Continue reading for the answer.

has stated that her biological father"doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considerswho has lived with her mothersince Hudson was three, to be her father.

In 2000 Hudson received an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her breakthrough role as Penny Lane in Almost Famous.

Hudson, who has noted that she is "not very religious," describes herself as Jewish and became a vocal opponent of anti-Semitism in part because of witnessing it during a stay in Paris. Hudson has said, "I'm Jewish and this was the first time I experienced real anti-Semitism. Paris was scary...there were synagogues bombed and there was anti-Semitic graffiti all over the place. I was very angry. This is something I am passionate about"

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