In the past, DoYouRemember? tested audiences with a trip down memory lane. The clue was “Mom’s first huge role was ‘Penny’,” and plenty of you got it in one. Penny Lane was the fur-collared “Band Aid” who floated through Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous in 2000, and the 21-year-old who played her was Kate Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn. The little girl in that photo was Kate’s youngest, Rani Rose, and she turned 8 on October 2. “Our birthday girl! Rani Rose, our baby, is 8!” Kate wrote on Instagram, according to Hello!, and the photos she shared made the family resemblance hard to miss.
Rani is only one third of the story. Kate, now 47, is a mother of three, and each of her children has a different famous father. Her oldest just graduated from college, her middle child has been keeping time on a drum kit since he was a toddler, and by Kate’s own account the three of them may soon be making music together.
Who Is Kate Hudson’s Daughter Rani Rose?
Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa was born on October 2, 2018, to Kate and her longtime partner, musician Danny Fujikawa. The two began dating in December 2016 and announced their engagement in September 2021. Her name carries a quiet tribute. It is pronounced “Ronnie,” for Danny’s late father, Ron Fujikawa, who died in 2012. “Ron was the most special man who we all miss dearly. To name her after him is an honor,” Kate wrote when she introduced her daughter, a line Hello! recalled this fall and which Good Morning America reported at the time of her birth.
Goldie fell for her right away. When Rani turned 1, her grandmother called her “our new little princess flower who makes us jump for joy,” and when Kate posted a video of a 2-year-old Rani singing her ABCs on a family trip to Greece, Goldie answered, “I have no words only inordinate amounts of LOVE,” as we reported in Goldie Hawn’s cutest reaction to Rani’s recital.
Kate’s 8th birthday caption painted a clear picture of who Rani is now. She called her “our little dancing, avid reading, skincare obsessed, horse loving, harry potter die hard, cuddle bug,” and the home videos showed the two of them baking and dancing in the backyard, InStyle reported. Kate has described her the same way for years. “She is just a total firecracker,” she told People in 2024, and “she’s so magical.” Fans who saw last year’s 7th birthday photos said the girl was turning into her mother’s double, and this year’s set only made the case stronger. Rani’s oldest brother, though, is the one who has been watching Kate the longest.
What Is Ryder Robinson Doing Now?
Ryder Russell Robinson was born on January 7, 2004, during Kate’s marriage to Chris Robinson, the singer of the Black Crowes. The couple wed on New Year’s Eve 2000 in Aspen, Colorado, just months after Almost Famous opened, and their divorce was finalized in October 2007. Ryder is 22 now, and this spring he did something Kate believes nobody in the family had done before.
On May 14, 2026, Ryder graduated from New York University. Kate had told Jimmy Fallon he might be the first person in the family to earn a college degree, which we covered in Kate Hudson’s story about Ryder’s college milestone. The celebration turned into a portrait of the whole blended family, with Goldie, Kurt Russell, Danny Fujikawa and Matt Bellamy all on hand, according to Hello!. Chris Robinson was there too, and Kate’s own caption said it all. “My college graduate!!!!!!” she wrote.
Two months earlier, Ryder had walked the Vanity Fair Oscar party carpet as his mother’s date on the night she was up for Best Actress for Song Sung Blue. He told Entertainment Tonight he had never been more proud of her, as People and other outlets reported, and he said he may lean into acting. His father sounded just as pleased with him. “He’s his own young man, so there’s that. Very proud of him,” Chris told ET. Ryder also sings, plays guitar and, in Kate’s telling, has been building furniture, a sofa included. The furniture may have to wait, because his younger brother has other ideas.
Who Is Bingham Bellamy?
Bingham Hawn Bellamy, known to the family as Bing, was born in July 2011, three months after Kate got engaged to Matt Bellamy, frontman of the British rock band Muse. The couple called off the engagement in 2014 but stayed on good terms, which is something Kate has made a point of with all three of her children’s fathers. “It might not look traditional from the outside, but on the inside, I feel like we’re killing it,” she told The Sunday Times.
Bing is 15, and Kate has kept his life mostly private, sharing music rather than milestones. When he turned 12 she posted a montage of him on the drums from his toddler years onward and wrote, “My drummer baby,” Entertainment Tonight reported. His father has said the same thing in his own words, calling him “a great drummer” in a 2022 interview and saying the two of them had started jamming together.
Kate has been honest that raising a college graduate, a teenager and a little girl all at once takes three different playbooks. “The way I have to raise Ryder is so different from how I’m raising Bing and Rani,” she said, as Hello! reported. Those three playbooks may be about to land on the same stage.
Will Kate Hudson’s Kids Start A Family Band?
Kate let the secret slip on The Jennifer Hudson Show this spring. Asked whether her children had caught the music bug, she ran down the lineup like a proud bandleader. “Ryder plays the guitar, and he sings, and Bing is an amazing drummer,” she said, according to Hello!. “I mean, Bing can play literally anything, but he’s been drumming since he was about a year old.” As for Rani, Kate said she “just sings, dances, performs.” Would the boys really form a band? “Yeah, I think it’s kinda gonna happen,” Kate said.
It would be a fitting next chapter for a family that runs on music. Ryder’s dad fronted the Black Crowes, Bing’s dad fronts Muse and Rani’s dad is a musician as well. Kate herself released her first album, Glorious, in 2024, and she told NPR that her one real regret was holding back her own songwriting for so long. “That would be my own personal sadness and regret, is that I didn’t share my writings as a musician,” she said.
Her second Oscar nomination, 25 years after Penny Lane earned her the first, came with something she never expected. Kate compared the experience to “having my third baby,” and she said the best part was sharing it with the woman who started it all. “There’s this amazing connection that I get to have with my mom at this time,” she told NPR. “How lucky am I that I got to really share that experience with her in that way?” Goldie turns 81 on November 21, and if her grandchildren do take the stage together one day, it is safe to guess who will be front and center in the audience. Rani’s cousin Wilder has been making family news of his own lately, and you can read about Goldie Hawn’s grandson Wilder’s college plans here.
