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Katharine Hepburn

Film Actress / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Actress | * 05/12/1907 († 96, 06/29/2003) | Hartford, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and earned her various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in film brought her international fame, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for her third film, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures culminating in the critically lauded box office failure Bringing Up Baby (1938). Hepburn ... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for Katharine Hepburn

4x Academy Award for Best Actress Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Kennedy Center Honors Emmy Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards David di Donatello Volpi Cup for Best Actress Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Cfda Lifetime Achievement Award BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Ladies' Home Journal Women of The Year Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 12x Academy Award for Best Actress Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
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Movies with Katharine Hepburn as Actress(92)

as herself2023 Call Me Kate
as Self (archive footage)2022 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)2017 In Search of Tracy Lord
as Self (archive footage)2017 Becoming Cary Grant
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)2014 Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
as Self / Rose Sayer (archive footage)2010 Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self (archive footage)2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)2010 Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)2004 Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Coco Chanel (segment "Coco")2004 Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Self (archive footage)2003 Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)1997 Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (voice) (uncredited)1996 The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
as (archive footage)1994 That's Entertainment! III
as Marion Bennett1994 This Can't Be Love
as Cornelia Beaumont1994 One Christmas
as Ginny1994 Love Affair
as Mrs. Venable (archive footage)1994 Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Self (voice)1992 Fonda on Fonda
as Victoria Brown1992 The Man Upstairs
as herself1990 Night Of 100 Stars III
as Laura Lansing1988 Laura Lansing Slept Here
as herself1988 Bacall on Bogart
as Margaret Delafield1986 Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
as Grace Quigley1985 Grace Quigley
as Ethel Thayer1981 On Golden Pond
as Miss Lilly Moffat1979 The Corn Is Green
as Miss Pudd1978 Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
as (archive footage)1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as Self (archive footage)1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Eula1975 Rooster Cogburn
as Jessica Medlicott1975 Love Among the Ruins
as (archive footage) (uncredited)1974 That's Entertainment!
as Amanda Wingfield1973 The Glass Menagerie
as Agnes1973 A Delicate Balance
as herself1971 Directed by John Ford
as Hecuba1971 The Trojan Women
as Contessa Aurelia1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
as Eleanor of Aquitaine1968 The Lion in Winter
as Christina Drayton1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as Tracy Lord (archive footage)1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Self (voice) (uncredited)1961 Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Violet Venable1959 Suddenly, Last Summer
as Bunny Watson1957 Desk Set
as Captain Vinka Kovalenko1956 The Iron Petticoat
as Lizzie Curry1956 The Rainmaker
as Jane Hudson1955 Summertime
as Patricia "Pat" Pemberton1952 Pat and Mike
as Rose Sayer1952 The African Queen
as Self (archive footage)1950 The Costume Designer
as Amanda Bonner1949 Adam's Rib
as Mary Matthews1948 State of the Union
as Clara Wieck Schumann1947 Song of Love
as Lutie Cameron Brewton1947 The Sea of Grass
as Ann Hamilton1946 Undercurrent
as Jamie Rowan1945 Without Love
as Jade Tan1944 Dragon Seed
as Christine Forrest1943 Keeper of the Flame
as herself1943 Stage Door Canteen
as Tess Harding1942 Woman of the Year
as Narrator (voice)1941 Women in Defense
as Tracy Lord1940 The Philadelphia Story
as Self (archive footage)1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Linda Seton1938 Holiday
as Susan Vance1938 Bringing Up Baby
as Phoebe Throssel1937 Quality Street
as Terry Randall1937 Stage Door
as Mary Stuart1936 Mary of Scotland
as Pamela 'Pam' Thistlewaite1936 A Woman Rebels
as Constance Dane Roberti1935 Break of Hearts
as Alice Adams1935 Alice Adams
as Sylvia/Sylvester Scarlett1935 Sylvia Scarlett
as Barbara 'Babbie'1934 The Little Minister
as Trigger Hicks1934 Spitfire
as Lady Cynthia Darrington1933 Christopher Strong
as Jo1933 Little Women
as Eva Lovelace1933 Morning Glory
as Sydney Fairfield1932 A Bill of Divorcement

TV Shows/Series with Katharine Hepburn as Actress(5)

as herself1993 Intimate Portrait
as herself1971 Great Performances
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show
as herself1965 aspekte

Movies with Katharine Hepburn as Crew(2)

Crew/Cinematography1993 Katharine Hepburn: All About Me

Born: Sunday, 05/12 1907 (May) in Hartford, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 06/29 2003 (June) in Old Saybrook (aged: 96)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Bryn Mawr College, Kingswood-Oxford School
Member of: Committee for the First Amendment
Spouses (current/former): Ludlow Ogden Smith
Father: Thomas Norval Hepburn
Mother: Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn
Related to: Katharine Houghton
Other names for Katharine Hepburn (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Кэтрин Хепберн"
"Katherine Hepburn"
"캐서린 헵번"
"Kate Hepburn"
"Katie Hepburn"
"Кэтрин Хепбёрн"
"Katharine Houghton Hepburn"
Katharine Hepburn frequently works together with these people:
Spencer Tracy (22x, Actor)
Mel Berns (16x, Crew)
Cary Grant (14x, Actor)
George Cukor (14x, Crew)
Van Nest Polglase (13x, Crew)
Pandro S. Berman (13x, Crew)
Clark Gable (12x, Actor)
Walter Plunkett (12x, Crew)
David Heeley (12x, Crew)
James Stewart (11x, Actor)
Roy Webb (10x, Crew)
Plácido Domingo (6x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:9183, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/09/2024