Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 - some sources say 1942 or 1943 - in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Early life
Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her father was in the Navy.[1] Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School. She has lived in Malibu, California since the late 1960s.
While attending Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA she starred in a student film by Jim and Artie Mitchell (of O'Farrell Theater fame).
Personal life
Ross is married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she met when they co-starred in the 1978 film, The Legacy.[1] The couple married in 1984 and have one daughter, Cleo Rose.
Trivia
- As of 2008, she is the only actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance (for Voyage of the Damned (1988)).
- Turned down the role of call girl Bree Daniels in Klute (1971), which won Jane Fonda an Oscar.
Partial filmography
Her prominent film roles include:
- Shenandoah, as James Stewart's daughter-in-law.
- Mister Buddwing, (1966), as Janet, with James Garner
- The Graduate, as Elaine Robinson, a college student who discovers that her mother and boyfriend have had an affair.
- Games directed by Curtis Harrington, with James Caan and Simone Signoret
- Get to Know Your Rabbit, as a nameless woman who falls in love with a tap-dancing magician.
- Hellfighters, as Tish Buckman, playing John Wayne's daughter.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as rural schoolteacher Etta Place in the 1890s involved with the eponymous outlaws
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Lola, lover of Willie Boy (Robert Blake)
- They Only Kill Their Masters (1972) as a murder suspect
- The Stepford Wives (1975) as Joanna Ingalls Eberhart, a suburban housewife who discovers a terrible secret about her community.
- The Legacy (1978)
- The Betsy (1978) opposite acting legend Sir Laurence Olivier
- The Final Countdown (1980), as the secretary to a U.S. Senator in the 1940s
- Donnie Darko (2001), as a psychiatrist treating the title character (Jake Gyllenhaal), a teen with disturbing visions
In 1979 she starred, with Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick, and Richard Anderson in the well received television movie "Murder by Natural Causes". She also starred in the 1980s television series The Colbys playing opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Colby.
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1940-1-29 |
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Hollywood, California |
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