Katharine Ross

About Katharine Ross

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: January 29, 1940
Birth Place: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, United States
Occupation: Actress, author
Years active: 1962–2017
Spouse(s): Joel Fabiani (m. 1960; div. 1962) John Marion (m. 1964; div. 1967) Conrad Hall (m. 1969; div. 1974) Gaetano Lisi (m. 1974; div. 1979) Sam Elliott (m. 1984)
Children: 1

Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross was born on January 29, 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, United States, is Actress. Katharine Juliet Ross is a well known American film and stage actress. She first came to prominence with her role in 'The Graduate,' a comedy drama film for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Two years later, she appeared in the Oscar winning film 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', which again was a huge success. Her role in the horror thriller 'The Stepford Wives' also earned her a lot of acclaim. Throughout her career she has also appeared in numerous TV shows in major as well guest roles, some of them being 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour', 'Run for Your Life' and 'The Road West'. She was most recently seen in the American drama film 'The Hero'. Directed by Brett Haley, the film is about an aging actor dealing with a terminal illness. A multi-faceted personality, she is also a successful author. She has written several books for children, such as 'The Fuzzytail Friends' Great Egg Hunt' and 'Grover, Grover come on over!'
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Popular As Katharine Ross
Occupation Film & Theater Personalities
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born January 29, 1940 (Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, United States)
Birthday January 29
Town/City Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, United States
Nationality United States

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Katharine Ross’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.

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Biography/Timeline

1940

Ross was born in Hollywood, California, on January 29, 1940 (though many sources cite 1942 or 1943) when her Father, Dudley Ross, was in the Navy. He had also worked for the Associated Press. Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco, and she graduated from Las Lomas High School in 1957. Ross was a keen horse rider in her youth and was friends with Casey Tibbs, a rodeo rider.

1957

She studied at Santa Rosa Junior College for one year (1957–1958), where she was introduced to acting via a production of The King and I. She dropped out of the course and moved to San Francisco to study acting. She joined The Actors Workshop and was with them for three years (1959–1962) working as an understudy; for one role in Jean Genet's The Balcony she appeared nude on stage. In 1964 she was cast by John Houseman as Cordelia in a production of King Lear. While at the Workshop, she began acting in television series in Los Angeles to earn extra money. She was brought to Hollywood by Metro, dropped, then picked up by Universal.

1960

Ross has been married five times. Her first marriage was to actor Joel Fabiani from 1960 to 1962. She was then married to John Marion 1964 to 1967. In 1969, Ross married the triple Oscar-winning Cinematographer Conrad Hall after meeting him on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They separated in 1973. She was married to Gaetano "Tom" Lisi from 1975 to 1979; they met when he was a chauffeur and technician on the set of The Stepford Wives.

1961

Ross unsuccessfully auditioned for West Side Story (1961); her first television role was in Sam Benedict in 1962. She was picked up by agent Wally Hiller, and in 1964, Ross appeared in episodes of Arrest and Trial, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("Dividing Wall" episode, 1963). She screen tested for The Young Lovers and made her first film, Shenandoah. In 1966 she had a starring role opposite James Garner in Mister Buddwing with MGM, and appeared in the episode "To Light a Candle" of Barry Sullivan's NBC Western The Road West.

1967

Also that year, she starred in the film Games. Ross had breakout roles in two of cinema's most popular films, as Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967) opposite Dustin Hoffman, and as Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), co-starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford (her lover). After appearing as Dustin Hoffman's character's girlfriend Elaine in The Graduate, a part for which she received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year, she said, "I'm not a movie star...that system is dying and I'd like to help it along." She also won a BAFTA for her part as an Indian in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969). Ross turned down several roles (including Jacqueline Bisset's role in Bullitt) before accepting the part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

1969

Ross is now married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she originally met on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). The couple met again when they co-starred in The Legacy (1978). They soon became a couple and married in May 1984, four months before the birth of their only child, daughter Cleo Rose Elliott.

1970

Preferring stage acting, Ross returned to the small playhouses in Los Angeles for much of the 1970s. One of her best-known roles came in 1975's film The Stepford Wives, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She reprised the role of Etta Place in a 1976 ABC TV movie, Wanted: The Sundance Woman. She won a Golden Globe for best supporting Actress for her part in 1977's Voyage of the Damned.

1979

She starred in several television movies, including Murder by Natural Causes in 1979 with Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick and Richard Anderson, Rodeo Girl in 1980, Murder in Texas in 1981, and the 1980s television series The Colbys opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Scott Colby. She played Donnie's therapist in the 2001 film Donnie Darko. She played Carly Schroeder's grandmother in the 2006 independent film Eye of the Dolphin. In 2017, she appeared as Sam Elliott's ex-wife in The Hero, in which he played an aging Western star.

2015

In January 2015 she appeared at the Malibu Playhouse in the first of a series titled A Conversation With, interviewed by Steven Gaydos. That February, she appeared with her husband Sam Elliott in Love Letters, also at the Malibu Playhouse.

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