Katharine Juliet Ross is an American film and stage actress. She starred in three of the most popular films of the 1960s and 1970s: as Elaine Robinson in The Graduate, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress...
Sam Elliott (m. 1984), Gaetano Lisi (m. 1974–1979)
Children
Cleo Cole Elliott
Parents
Dudley Ross, Katharine W. Hall
Nicknames
Katharine Juliet Ross , Katherine Ross
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Actress (1969), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (1976), Saturn Award for Best Actress (1975), Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (1967)
Nominations
Academy Award - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (1968), BAFTA Award - Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (1969), Laurel Awards - Female Star (1970,1971)
Movies
"The Graduate", "Games" (1967), "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "The Stepford Wives" (1975), "Voyage of the Damned"
TV Shows
"The Balcony", "King Lear", "Murder by Natural Causes", "Rodeo Girl", "Murder in Texas", "Sam Benedict", "The Lieutenant", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "Arrest and Trial", "The Virginian", "Gunsmoke"
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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[on meeting 'The Graduate" co-star, Dustin Hoffman] He looked about three feet tall, so dead, serious, so humorless, so unkempt. [I thought] this is going to be a disaster.
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[in 1974, about a film she shot in France, Le hasard et la violence (1974)] What the hell, I got a trip to the French Riviera out of it. It was shot in Nice. I have no idea how good it is. I spoke English and [Yves Montand] spoke French and the whole thing was dubbed.
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Fact
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For her work in Voyage of the Damned (1976), she's one of only 4 actresses to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 3 are, in chronological order: Katy Jurado in High Noon (1952), Hermione Gingold in Gigi (1958) and Karen Black in The Great Gatsby (1974).
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Her paternal great-grandfather, Finlay Ross, was from Inverness-shire, Scotland, and her paternal great-grandmother, Marguerite Le Cocq Houguez, was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Katharine's ancestry also includes English, German, and other Scottish roots. Some of her recent ancestors were Canadian.
Katharine Ross (born January 1940) is only 10 years and 5 months younger than Vera Miles (born August 1929), who portrayed her mother in Hellfighters (1968).
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Both she and husband Sam Elliott appeared in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), although they had no scenes together and did not meet until 1978. Elliot, had a bit part as a card player in the opening scene, while Ross portrayed Etta Place, the female lead role, along side male leads Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
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Was at one point going to star in The Public Eye (1972).
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