Book Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross is an American actress who became one of the defining screen faces of the late 1960s. Trained at the Actor's Workshop, she debuted on television in 1962 and on film in the Civil War drama Shenandoah (1965), followed by Mister Buddwing, The Singing Nun and the thriller Games (1967). Her role as Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967) brought an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year. She then starred in two 1969 Westerns, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for both. In the 1970s she led the horror classic The Stepford Wives (1975), which earned her a Saturn Award, and won a second Golden Globe for Voyage of the Damned (1976). Other credits include The Swarm (1978), The Legacy (1978) and The Final Countdown (1980), the TV films Murder in Texas and The Shadow Riders, and the series The Colbys from 1985 to 1987. She later returned to film in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). Ross has since retired from acting.