Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) is an American film, stage, and television actress. Her accolades include one Academy Award nomination, one BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. A native of Los Angeles, Ross spent most of her early life in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending Santa Rosa Junior College for one year, Ross joined The Actors Workshop in San Francisco, and began appearing in theatrical productions.
| Katharine Ross | |
|---|---|
| Born | Katharine Juliet Ross January 29, 1940 |
| Occupation | |
| Years active | 1962–2019 |
| Spouses |
|
| Children | 1 |
Ross made her film debut in the Civil War-themed drama Shenandoah (1965), and had supporting parts in Mister Buddwing (1965) and The Singing Nun (1966) before being cast in Curtis Harrington’s Games (1967), a thriller co-starring James Caan and Simone Signoret. At Signoret’s recommendation, Ross was cast as Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols’ comedy-drama The Graduate (1967), which saw her receive significant critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA nomination, and Golden Globe win for New Star of the Year. In (1968) Ross co-starred in the John Wayne movie “Hellfighters” playing his daughter Tish Buckman. She garnered further acclaim for her roles in two 1969 western films: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, for both of which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
In the 1970s, Ross had a leading role in the horror film The Stepford Wives (1975), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and won her second Golden Globe Award for her performance in the drama Voyage of the Damned (1976). Other roles during this period included in disaster film The Swarm (1978), the supernatural horror film The Legacy (1978), and the science fiction film The Final Countdown (1980). Ross spent the majority of the 1980s appearing in a number of television films, including Murder in Texas (1981) and The Shadow Riders (1982), and later starred on the network series The Colbys from 1985 to 1987.
Ross spent the majority of the 1990s in semiretirement, though she returned to film with a supporting part in Richard Kelly’s cult film Donnie Darko (2001). In 2016, she provided a voice role for the animated comedy series American Dad!, and in 2017 starred in the comedy-drama The Hero, opposite her husband, Sam Elliott.
Katharine Ross Wiki, Biography
Ross was born in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California, on January 29, 1940,[a] when her father, Dudley Tying Ross (1906–1991), was in the Navy.[5] A native of New York, he had also worked for the Associated Press.[6] Ross’s mother, Katherine Mullen[b] (1909–1993), was originally from Oklahoma and had lived in Indiana and Oregon before moving to San Francisco. She married Ross’s father there in 1937.[7] The family later settled in Walnut Creek.
Ross was a keen horse rider in her youth[8] and was friends with rodeo rider Casey Tibbs.[9] She graduated from Las Lomas High School in 1957. Ross studied for one year at Santa Rosa Junior College, 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.[8]
She joined The Actors Workshop and was with them for three years.[11] For one role in Jean Genet’s The Balcony she appeared nude on stage.[11]
In 1964 she was cast by John Houseman as Cordelia in a stage production of King Lear.[12][13]
While at the Workshop, she began acting in television series in Los Angeles to earn extra money.[8] She was brought to Hollywood by Metro, dropped, then picked up by Universal.[14]
Ross auditioned but was not hired for a role in the film West Side Story (1961).[15] Her first television role was in Sam Benedict in 1962.[16][17]
She was signed by agent Wally Hiller,[18] and in 1964, Ross appeared in episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre, The Lieutenant, Arrest and Trial, The Virginian, The Great Adventure, Ben Casey, Mr. Novak, Wagon Train, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Run for Your Life, Gunsmoke, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (“Dividing Wall”, 1963) as well as playing the love interest of Heath Barkley opposite Lee Majors on The Big Valley (Season 1, Episode 7-“Winner Loses All”). She screen tested for The Young Lovers.”[19]
Ross made her first film, Shenandoah in 1965 playing the daughter-in-law of James Stewart. She returned to guest starring on shows like The Loner, The Wild Wild West, and The Road West. MGM put her in an unsold TV pilot about Bible stories. She signed a long term deal with Universal, who called her an “American Samantha Eggar”.[20]
“I didn’t want a contract in the movies but a lot of people convinced me it was a good thing to do,” she later said.[21]
MGM borrowed her for supporting parts in The Singing Nun (1966) and Mister Buddwing (1966).
Personal life[edit]
Ross has married five times. In 1960, she married her college sweetheart, Joel Fabiani, though the marriage lasted only two years before ending in divorce. She married her second husband John Marion in 1964 but they were divorced in 1967.
After completing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Ross married the film’s cinematographer, three-time Oscar-winner Conrad Hall in 1969. They divorced in 1973. She married Gaetano “Tom” Lisi in 1974 after making The Stepford Wives; they met when he was a chauffeur and technician on the set. They divorced in 1979.
Ross married Sam Elliott in 1984. They were co-stars in the supernatural horror film The Legacy (1978). They had worked together on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and after they were reacquainted on the set of The Legacy they began dating, and married in May 1984, four months before the birth of their daughter Cleo Rose Elliott.
Daily Habits
| Work Time | Update Soon |
| Workout Time | Update Soon |
| Travel | Update Soon |
| Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner | Update Soon |
Facebook, Instagram & Twitter
| | Update Soon |
| Update Soon | |
| Update Soon |
Net Worth
The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.
| Monthly Income/Salary (approx.) | $80K – $85k USD |
| Net Worth (approx.) | $4 million- $6 million USD |