Katharine Ross

Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American movie and stage actress. She was born in Hollywood when her father was in the Navy. 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 nineteen-sixties.

Personal life

She has been married to actor Sam Elliott since 1984. They have one daughter, Cleo.

Partial filmography

Her prominent film roles include:

• Shenandoah, as James Stewart's daughter-in-law.
• 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 one of the best made-for-TV movies ever produced, "Murder by Natural Causes". She also starred in the 1980s television series The Colbys playing opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Colby.

References

• Katharine Ross, by Eric O'Keefe cowboysindians.com

External links

• Katharine Ross at the Internet Movie Database