Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 10, 1945 (age 81)
Place of Birth
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A
Also Known As
- Katharine Houghton Grant
Katharine Houghton
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.
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Known For - Movies
The Last Airbender
as Katara's Grandma
Kinsey
as Mrs. Spaulding
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as Joanna "Joey" Drayton
The Night We Never Met
as Less
Mr. North
as Mrs. Skeel
Billy Bathgate
as Charlotte
Ethan Frome
as Mrs. Hale
Sidney
as Self
Let It Be Me
as Homeless Woman
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
