Katharine Houghton
- Acting
- March 10, 1945 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Houghton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Sidney · Self
- The Last Airbender · Katara's Grandma
- A Special Kind of Love · Self
- A Love Story of Today · Self
- Kinsey · Mrs. Spaulding
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories · Self
- Let It Be Me · Homeless Woman
- The Night We Never Met · Less
- Ethan Frome · Mrs. Hale
- Billy Bathgate · Charlotte
- Mr. North · Mrs. Skeel
- The Eyes of the Amaryllis · Isabel
- American Playhouse · Mrs. Hale
- The Adams Chronicles · Abigail Adams II
- The Gardener · Ellen Bennett
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner · Joanna "Joey" Drayton
- Judd, for the Defense
- ABC Stage 67 · Bonnie
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self