The role in the comedy film Cactus Flower (1969) became the first significant work in Hawn’s filmography. The actress won an Oscar award for her role in this movie. Hawn is also known to a wide audience thanks to her roles in comedies and adventure films from the end of the ’80s and the beginning of the ’90s, like Overboard (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), and Death Becomes Her (1992).