Katharine Ross



Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940)[1]  is an American film and stage actress.

She rose to fame for starring in two of the most popular films of the late 1960s: as Elaine Robinson in The Graduate, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and as Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She also starred in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and won another Golden Globe for Voyage of the Damned in 1976. ==Early life ==

Ross was born in Hollywood, California, on January 29, 1940, when her father, Dudley Ross, was in the Navy.[2]  He had also worked for the Associated Press.[3]  Her family later settled inWalnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School in 1957. Ross was a keen horse rider in her youth[4]  and was friends with Casey Tibbs, a rodeo rider.[5] ==Career ==

She studied at Santa Rosa Junior College for one year (1957–1958), where she had her introduction to acting in a production of The King and I. She dropped out of the course and moved to San Francisco to study acting.[4]  She joined The Actors Workshop and was with them for three years (1959–1962)[6]  working as an understudy;[7]  for one role in Jean Genet's The Balconyshe appeared nude on stage,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-travelers_7-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  and in 1964 she was cast by John Houseman as Cordelia in a production of King Lear.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  While at the Workshop, she began acting in television series in Los Angeles to earn extra money.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-life_4-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She was brought to Hollywood by Metro, dropped, then picked up by Universal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-post_10-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Her first television role was in Sam Benedict in 1962.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-future_6-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In 1964, Ross appeared in episodes of Arrest and Trial, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("Dividing Wall" episode, 1963), and made her first film, Shenandoah, followed by a starring role opposite James Garner in Mister Buddwing with MGM in 1965.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-future_6-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In 1966, she appeared in the episode "To Light a Candle" of Barry Sullivan's NBC Western The Road West.

Ross in 1966<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">That year, she starred in the film Games.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-life_4-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Then came her breakout roles in two of cinema's most popular films, Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967) and Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-western_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  After appearing as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend Elaine in The Graduate, a part for which she received an Oscar nomination<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  and a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year, she said that "I'm not a movie star...that system is dying and I'd like to help it along."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-life_4-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She also won a BAFTA for her part as an Indian in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  She turned down several roles (including Jacqueline Bisset's role in Bullitt<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mann_14-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14] ) before accepting the part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and then turned down several more roles,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sixties_15-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15] including a part in The Towering Inferno.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mann_14-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She was dropped by Universal in the spring of 1969 for refusing to play a stewardess in Airport, another role that went to Jacqueline Bisset.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-post_10-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  She preferred stage acting, returning to the small playhouses in Los Angeles for much of the 1970s.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sixties_15-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  One of her best-known roles came in 1975's The Stepford Wives, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  She reprised the role of Etta Place in a 1976 ABC TV movie, Wanted: The Sundance Woman,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-western_11-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  and then won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for her part in 1977's Voyage of the Damned;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She starred in several television movies from the late 1970s,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  including Murder by Natural Causes in 1979 with Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick and Richard Anderson,<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  Rodeo Girlin 1980,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-beck_19-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  Murder in Texas in 1981,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mann_14-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  and the 1980s television series The Colbys opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Scott Colby.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  She played Donnie's therapist in the 2001 filmDonnie Darko.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  Her last acting role to date was as Carly Schroeder's grandmother in the 2006 independent film Eye of the Dolphin. Ross has established herself as an author, publishing several children's books. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> ==

<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Ross has been married five times. Her first marriage was to actor Joel Fabiani<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-travelers_7-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  from February 28, 1960 to 1962. She was then married to John Marion from May 2, 1964 to 1967. On June 1, 1969, Ross married the triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall after meeting him on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sixties_15-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  They separated in 1973.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  She was married to Gaetano Lisi (known as Tom) from 1975 to 1979, after they met when he was a chauffeur and technician on The Stepford Wives.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-closeup_23-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lucky_24-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  Ross is now married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she met when they co-starred in the 1978 film The Legacy (one of his first film roles was as 'Card Player #2' in the opening scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The couple married in 1984 and have a daughter, Cleo Rose Elliott,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]  born in 1984.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  In March 2011, Ross got a restraining order against Cleo after her daughter allegedly stabbed her repeatedly with a pair of scissors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == ===Film<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> ===

===Television<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> ===

==Books<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> ==


 * Grover, Grover come on over!
 * The Teeny, Tiny Farm.
 * Bear Island.
 * The Baby Animals' Party.
 * The Fuzzytail Friends' Great Egg Hunt.
 * The Little Quiet Book. (with Jean Hirashima, Random House)
 * The Little Noise Book. (with Jean Hirashima, Random House)
 * Open the Door, Little Dinosaur. (with Norman Gorbaty)
 * Twinkle, Twinkle The Little Bug. (with Tom Cooke)
 * Sweetie and Petie. (with Lisa McCue)