Katharine Houghton

Katharine Houghton

actress

BIRTHDAY March 10, 1945
BIRTH SIGN Pisces
BIRTHPLACE Connecticut
AGE 80 years old
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ABOUT KATHARINE HOUGHTON

Actress who starred in the groundbreaking, interracial-dating-themed 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

She studied art and philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

She starred in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions and also wrote and produced over ten original plays.

She married fellow actor and writer Ken Jenkins , in 1970. Her niece, Schuyler Grant (of Anne of Green Gables miniseries fame), also became an actress.

Her maternal aunt was the renowned actress Katharine Hepburn . Hepburn played Houghton's character's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.