At 75, Kurt Russell Is Starring in Two Major TV Shows - and Choosing Colorado Over Hollywood

Kurt Russell speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International. Photo by Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hollywood’s Quiet Comeback Story

Kurt Russell is 75 years old and he is having one of the best professional years of his career. He is starring in two major television series simultaneously - Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, where he shares the screen with his own son Wyatt Russell playing the same character across different timelines, and Paramount+’s The Madison, a Taylor Sheridan-created neo-Western that has already been renewed for seasons 2 and 3.

The Madison is being submitted for 27 Emmy bids, according to Variety, with Russell among those submitted in supporting categories - which would be his first Emmy nomination in 47 years if it lands.

And while all of this is happening on screen, Russell is talking openly about the life he has quietly been building away from it.

The Ranch He Built With Goldie Hawn

People magazine reported in May 2026 that Russell opened up at The Madison’s FYC panel in Los Angeles about his and Goldie Hawn’s Colorado life - a subject he described with the kind of specific warmth that comes from 40 years of genuine attachment.

‘Our Old Snowmass home is my favorite,’ Russell told The Wall Street Journal. ‘It’s a large, beautiful log-cabin lodge on a ranch that we moved into a little over 40 years ago.’

He and Hawn split their time between Los Angeles, Palm Desert, Colorado, and New York - a life pattern, he noted to Fox News Digital, that mirrors the characters in The Madison, who also travel between L.A. and the mountains. Hawn, now 80, loves Colorado as much as he does. Their son Wyatt and his family now live there year-round.

A Career Built on Refusing to Do Things the Hollywood Way

Russell first moved to Colorado when he was 26 years old - decades before a celebrity exodus from Los Angeles became a cultural conversation. His business remained in Hollywood, but his life was always anchored somewhere quieter. He told People it was a deliberate choice, not an escape.

‘I’ve enjoyed my life the way I’ve wanted to, and I’ve been able to continue on in the business too,’ he said. ‘I was able to make that happen.’

That combination - full creative engagement on screen, genuine domestic rootedness off it - is what gives Russell’s current moment its particular texture. He is not returning to the spotlight after a long absence. He simply kept working, kept living, and arrived at 75 with two of the most-watched shows on streaming television.

Father and Son, Same Character

One of the more unusual aspects of the Monarch collaboration is its structure. Russell and his son Wyatt play the same character, Lee Shaw, at different points in his life - Wyatt in the 1950s, Kurt in the present timeline. Fox News reported that Russell described the experience of watching Wyatt work as one of genuine admiration.

‘We always knew Wyatt was a really good actor,’ Russell said. He noted the parallel between his own early choice of baseball over acting - and Wyatt’s path through professional hockey before finding his way to the screen.

What 75 Looks Like When You Have Built It Right

Princess Diana once vacationed at the Russells’ Colorado ranch, according to People - with Prince William and Prince Harry - after Russell suggested it as a place far enough from the paparazzi to actually rest. That detail captures something true about what Russell and Hawn have built: a life that has been genuinely lived, in a place they genuinely chose, for reasons that have nothing to do with image management.

At 75, with two hit shows and an Emmy campaign underway, Kurt Russell is not chasing anything. He is doing exactly what he said he wanted to do when he left Los Angeles all those years ago.

References: Kurt Russell Reveals Why Leaving L.A. for Colorado Is Exciting for Him and Goldie Hawn | Kurt Russell Reveals Why Colorado Mountain Living With Goldie Hawn Trumps Hollywood Glamour | The Madison Launches 27-Emmy Category Campaign