Katharine Houghton
Personal Info
Acting
March 9, 1945 (80 years old)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A
Also Known As
Katharine Houghton Grant
Katharine Houghton
Biography
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Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a Caucasian woman who brings home an African-American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was in real life Houghton's aunt.
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Known For
Sidney
2022
as Self
The Last Airbender
2010
as Katara's Grandma
A Special Kind of Love
2008
as Self
A Love Story of Today
2008
as Self
Kinsey
2004
as Mrs. Spaulding
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
Let It Be Me
1995
as Homeless Woman
The Night We Never Met
1993
as Less
Ethan Frome
1993
as Mrs. Hale
Billy Bathgate
1991
as Charlotte
Mr. North
1988
as Mrs. Skeel
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
1982
as Isabel
The Gardener
1974
as Ellen Bennett
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
as Joanna "Joey" Drayton
Judd for the Defense
1967
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Bonnie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self