Ali MacGraw | |
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MacGraw in The Getaway, 1972
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Born |
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw April 1, 1939 Pound Ridge, New York, United States |
Residence | Tesuque, New Mexico, United States |
Occupation | Actress, model, author, animal rights activist |
Years active | 1968–present |
Spouse(s) |
Robin Hoen (m. 1961; div. 1962) Robert Evans (m. 1969; div. 1972) Steve McQueen (m. 1973; div. 1978) |
Children | Josh Evans |
Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist.
MacGraw first gained attention with her role in 1969 in Goodbye, Columbus, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reached international fame in 1970's Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having been in just three films. MacGraw went on to star in the crime film The Getaway (1972) and married co-star Steve McQueen. She later appeared in the action film Convoy (1978), and the 1983 television miniseries The Winds of War. In 1991, she published her autobiography, Moving Pictures.
MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein; 1901–1980) and Richard MacGraw. She has one brother, Dick, an artist. Her father was of Scottish descent, while her maternal grandparents were from Budapest, Hungary, of Jewish heritage. MacGraw's mother chose not to disclose her true ethnicity to her father, instead professing ignorance about it. "I think Daddy was bigoted," MacGraw has said.