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Katharine Houghton

Actress / Playwright / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress / Penwoman | * 03/10/1945 (79) | Hartford, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white woman who brings home her black 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 Houghton's aunt. She is also known for her role as Kanna, Katara and Sokka's grandmother in the film The Last Airbender (2010). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ...

Kinsey

R

2004 | 3.3/5 | 1h 58min
Drama
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Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he a ...

The Night We Never Met

R

1993 | 2.6/5 | 1h 39min
Romance / Love, Comedy
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A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black. ...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

NR

1967 | 3.8/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, Comedy
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The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations. ...

The Last Airbender

PG

2010 | 2.3/5 | 1h 43min
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Awards & Nominations for Katharine Houghton

Theatre World Award
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Movies with Katharine Houghton as Actress(11)

as herself2022 Sidney
as Gran Gran2010 The Last Airbender
as herself2008 A Love Story of Today
as herself2008 A Special Kind of Love
as Mrs. Spaulding2004 Kinsey
as Less1993 The Night We Never Met
as Mrs. Hale1993 Ethan Frome
as Charlotte1991 Billy Bathgate
as Mrs. Skeel1988 Mr. North
as Ellen Bennett1974 The Gardener
as Joanna "Joey" Drayton1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

TV Shows/Series with Katharine Houghton as Actress(3)

1976 The Adams Chronicles
1967 Judd for the Defense
as Bonnie1966 ABC Stage 67

Full Name: Katharine Houghton
Born: Saturday, 03/10 1945 (March) in Hartford, Connecticut (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 79 years + 47 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Sarah Lawrence College, Kingswood-Oxford School
Spouses (current/former): Ken Jenkins
Father: Ellsworth Grant
Mother: Marion Hepburn
Katharine Houghton frequently works together with these people:
M. Night Shyamalan (4x, Crew)
Greg Carson (4x, Crew)
Karen Sharpe (4x, Actress)
Louis Gossett Jr. (3x, Actor)
Lee Grant (3x, Actress)
Marshall Schlom (3x, Crew)
Paul Bogart (3x, Crew)
Billy Hopkins (3x, Crew)
Randy Thom (3x, Crew)
Robert C. Jones (3x, Crew)
Irving Ong (3x, Crew)
Stanley Kramer (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:292032, Added: 08/11/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024