Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayJan 29, 1940
BiographyKatharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) is a retired American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

An alumna of The Actors Workshop, Ross made her television debut in 1962. She made her film debut in the Civil War-themed drama Shenandoah (1965), and had supporting parts in Mister Buddwing and The Singing Nun (both 1966) before being cast in Curtis Harrington's Games (1967), a thriller co-starring James Caan and Simone Signoret. At Signoret's recommendation, Ross was cast as Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama The Graduate (1967), which saw her receive significant critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA nomination, and Golden Globe win for New Star of the Year. She garnered further acclaim for her roles in two 1969 Westerns: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, for both of which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

In the 1970s, Ross had a leading role in the horror film The Stepford Wives (1975), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and won her second Golden Globe award for her performance in the drama Voyage of the Damned (1976). Her other roles during this period included the disaster film The Swarm (1978), the supernatural horror film The Legacy (1978), and the science-fiction film The Final Countdown (1980). Ross spent the majority of the 1980s appearing in a number of made-for-TV films, including Murder in Texas (1981) and The Shadow Riders (1982), and later starred on the network series The Colbys from 1985 to 1987.

Ross spent the majority of the 1990s in semiretirement, although she returned to film with a supporting part in Richard Kelly's cult film Donnie Darko (2001). In 2016, she provided a voice role for the animated comedy series American Dad!, and the following year starred in the comedy-drama The Hero (2017), opposite her husband, Sam Elliott.

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